Noctisardor Bypass gaps in a strange dream

The man was a fool for trying. Glaukos did not need him to be intact to get what he wanted, and so when Etienne leapt to action in an attempt to fight, the larger man welcomed the closing of distance. There were snaps at his sides rather than his face or neck, and while the man was quick he was easy to read. It was clear by the way Etienne moved that he was not a warrior.

The bear of a man reacted in his own unkind way. Letting Etienne think he had any hope to escape, and then thrusting himself hard and fast forward, in to the snapping teeth and in to those ribs and reaching with a ferocious lunge to grapple. Glaukos threw his weight in to his counter, slamming against Etienne - gripping his shoulder, using the momentum of their two bodies to his advantage - and within moments of the two colliding Glaukos was throwing the man to the ground, hard.

His hope was to knock him out and forcibly move him after, but in the off-chance this direct assault did not effectively do that, then he would stand over the dazed, gasping man, lift him and slam him down for good measure.

Etienne would be roughed up and likely bruised, battered, bloodied - but he would be here, as Glaukos demanded.