While Edward was engaged in his deadly, high-speed duel with the Star-Vampire, the scattered remnants of his team were fighting their own desperate battles. The arrival of Selene and her assassins had turned the tide in the glowing, coral cathedral. What had been a hopeless last stand was now a brutally efficient extermination.
Selene moved through the remaining spider-like creatures with a liquid, lethal grace that made even Kira's acrobatic style look clumsy. Her twin daggers, Silence's Kiss, were a blur of motion, each strike precise, economical, and instantly fatal. She was not just fighting; she was dissecting the enemy, her mind a cold, tactical computer analyzing attack patterns and exploiting weaknesses. Her two assassins, trained in her image, moved in perfect sync with her, a silent, three-person whirlwind of death that carved a path through the chittering horde.
