The thing about sharks was that one end of them was very pointy and obviously dangerous and it was easy to focus on that and lose track of the rest of them.
Although Hadama was wise enough not to start a land war in Asia or to go in against a Sicilian when death was on the line, he'd made perhaps the third classic blunder, and that was to pay more attention to the teeth of the shark than the mind behind them. He had started to shift his broad wing in a partial roll, lifting it away from those deadly jaws when instead Kaiden twisted to hit his body with their flank. He had no lungs or air with which to grunt in this shape, but a rumble of surprise and a flicker of pain - quickly dampened - filled the bond as he felt the scrape of coral against his scales.
Shaking off the blow, he flexed swiftly to lift himself away from the coral and, seeing that he had lost the high ground, instead rose at an angle from beneath Kaiden, gathering speed to ram the shark's underbelly amidships.
Although Hadama was wise enough not to start a land war in Asia or to go in against a Sicilian when death was on the line, he'd made perhaps the third classic blunder, and that was to pay more attention to the teeth of the shark than the mind behind them. He had started to shift his broad wing in a partial roll, lifting it away from those deadly jaws when instead Kaiden twisted to hit his body with their flank. He had no lungs or air with which to grunt in this shape, but a rumble of surprise and a flicker of pain - quickly dampened - filled the bond as he felt the scrape of coral against his scales.
Shaking off the blow, he flexed swiftly to lift himself away from the coral and, seeing that he had lost the high ground, instead rose at an angle from beneath Kaiden, gathering speed to ram the shark's underbelly amidships.
