S E V E N T E E N
Sumo doesn’t seem to want to kill me yet. Instead, it seems as if he’s enjoying our fight—and that he wants to toy with me.
So instead of crushing me to death, he spins me around fast several times, then throws me. The axe goes flying from my hands and the world goes rushing by as I fly through the air. I smash, headfirst, into the metal wall of the cage.
I bounce off it and land hard on the ground. The crowd roars. Again I managed to miss one of the cage’s protruding spikes, but barely. I look up and see the body of his last victim, still impaled on the cage wall, and realize I am lucky. The axe hits the ground with a clang several feet away from me.
My head is ringing, and I’m disoriented as I lay on my face. Out of the corner my eye, Sumo charges, but I’m too beat
