(complete) Sex, intrigues, lies - the Game is like normal politics, just that now people lose their brain over it. Macbeth meets House of Cards and Game of Thrones in a fantastic ride to the Brexit referendum battled out in the reality TV show envir...
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Matis saw Flo break away from him. He saw the container he was heading for. One blink later, the blood was gone and so was Flo. A feathery shadow shot through space almost as fast as his bolts. Matis tried to follow it with his eyes. That's when he caught sight of other shapes. They moved. Closed in on him from all sides. He didn't wait until he could make out who they were. Or what. His hammer was in his hands immediately.
He swung it. He swung it at everything that moved. He turned like a spinning top in the sand. The sand moved under his feet. His feet stirred up the sand until it hung like fog in the air. It became hard to see. He felt like he was breathing sandpaper. But Matis swung the hammer, one of the hidden blades out for there the hammer failed. And nothing could touch him.
The fight weltered and waved. No one could get close to Matis, but they forced him to move. First, it felt like there was no direction to it. But Matis knew that he had been herded when his foot stepped on something. Initially hard, it gave way under his weight. As it did, it made a clicking sound.
A booby trap. In a first reaction, his whole body went rigid. His hammer stopped midair. His kilt was caught by gravity. Even his breath stopped before it could be ripped from his body, when it was ripped into shreds.
But no boom followed. Matis was about to sigh in relief when a ring of fire appeared in the sand around him.Next a wall of licking flames rose all around Matis. He swung his hammer against it. It was of no use. He tried his bolts, but they neither found any resistance that they could break. The only way out was up and over. He looked that way and saw a hawk circling, a nut in its beak.
