Ronan was on his knees six meters away with one hand on his shield, still getting it back onto his arm.
Finn was on the far side of the axe's arc and could not cross it in time without losing a leg.
James had no anchor anywhere near her that would not put him directly in the path.
Cillian went.
He did not decide to. He was moving before the thought finished, and he put himself between an Orc War-Chief and Maeve knowing perfectly well that he could not take that hit, could not survive that hit, and had nothing left that was cheap enough to fix the situation.
So he used the expensive thing.
[CILLIAN WARD — LIGHTNING IMPACT]
[CILLIAN — MANA STRAIN CRITICAL]
It went into the same shoulder they had been dismantling all afternoon, and this time the joint gave.
[KARGAN — HP: 12,700 → 8,600]
