He caught Finn's next axe against the crossguard and stepped inside the length of his own weapon, which was the last place a man carrying two feet of steel in each hand wanted to be, and Morcant knew it before he did it.
Finn's free axe came round into his ribs immediately, exactly the way it was supposed to, and opened the plate along his side.
[MORCANT — HP: 34,720 → 34,080]
Morcant took it.
He took it the way a man takes a cost he has already agreed to pay, without flinching off the movement, and drove the pommel of the war blade into Finn's face on the same beat. Finn's head snapped back and he came off his line, and Morcant was already reversing the blade and putting the point toward the gap under his raised arm.
James had a skeleton standing directly behind Morcant, which was the obvious anchor, and which meant Morcant already knew it was there.
