Clint barely registers the comment, the raptor calls vying for his attention as they round the bend.
There's more than one raptor waiting for them; some of them are still a ways out, but there's a -- a pack circling in. On seeing the car, there's a stillness, and then one of the raptors on the right side of the car lunges towards them, trumpeting loudly.
Clint doesn't veer left; he doesn't veer left because he's holding the steering wheel steady as he raises in his seat. He shifts around, and rules out the raptors who've been chasing them. They're not on fresh legs; they're less dangerous that these ones who are staring at the car with a dangerous sort of curiosity. Chasing, but he's starting to think they're chasing just fast enough to keep up with the car. Trying to wear it out.
He glances forward again, then raises his P30, turning off his other hearing aid.
The first shot takes out the closest raptor, through the eye; they don't scatter until the second one goes down with a bullet through the soft pallet as it opens its mouth to roar. They break and scatter, falling out of close range, and Clint pulls back into the car, and turns his right hearing aid back on.
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There's more than one raptor waiting for them; some of them are still a ways out, but there's a -- a pack circling in. On seeing the car, there's a stillness, and then one of the raptors on the right side of the car lunges towards them, trumpeting loudly.
Clint doesn't veer left; he doesn't veer left because he's holding the steering wheel steady as he raises in his seat. He shifts around, and rules out the raptors who've been chasing them. They're not on fresh legs; they're less dangerous that these ones who are staring at the car with a dangerous sort of curiosity. Chasing, but he's starting to think they're chasing just fast enough to keep up with the car. Trying to wear it out.
He glances forward again, then raises his P30, turning off his other hearing aid.
The first shot takes out the closest raptor, through the eye; they don't scatter until the second one goes down with a bullet through the soft pallet as it opens its mouth to roar. They break and scatter, falling out of close range, and Clint pulls back into the car, and turns his right hearing aid back on.
"What?"