[He hears it, picks up on the specificities of their conversation with perfect ease, his enhanced senses making voices that would seem blurred and hushed to most others clear as day to his fine-honed ears. But none of that matters really, or at least not to him. The skitter and jump of excitement is already setting in behind his ribs and all through the Spine there are dull vibrations, a push and a shove that says let's go and yet he waits with perfect poise for the moment when Julius gives the order.
And then the order comes. Giovanni's face splits open around a serrated smile.]
Yes, Sir.
[Guns, this time, not bare hands, he thinks, pulls both pistols from the holsters at his thighs even as he begins to move forward, the shake and the rattle in him growing and the excitement all up inside his head and he closes the distance with terrifying speed, pulls the triggers, bang-bang.
Two of the criminals drop to the ground with strangled cries of pain and Giovanni lets out a short clipped laugh only part-concealed behind the sound of gunfire. It's alerted the others, though, the first two taken by surprise but already the shouts of alarm and anger are going up, the remaining Resistance reaching for their own weapons and descending on them in a panicked rush.]
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And then the order comes. Giovanni's face splits open around a serrated smile.]
Yes, Sir.
[Guns, this time, not bare hands, he thinks, pulls both pistols from the holsters at his thighs even as he begins to move forward, the shake and the rattle in him growing and the excitement all up inside his head and he closes the distance with terrifying speed, pulls the triggers, bang-bang.
Two of the criminals drop to the ground with strangled cries of pain and Giovanni lets out a short clipped laugh only part-concealed behind the sound of gunfire. It's alerted the others, though, the first two taken by surprise but already the shouts of alarm and anger are going up, the remaining Resistance reaching for their own weapons and descending on them in a panicked rush.]