Dodges lightning

D heard the riot of life and death all around him. Kneeling, gripping the
sword he’d driven into the earth, he looked like an obsidian statue. With all
the elements howling furiously around him, he alone remained unaffected.
Light filled the air above him. A serpentine form twice as thick as any man
could get his arms around was dropping toward D, scorching the air
molecules as it went. Here was the leader of this deadly swarm. Never
breaking his pose, D flew backward. Passing him in midair, the serpent fell
to the ground and broke in half before taking to the air once again.

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