Chapter 479: Lucky Break
Before anyone could react, Harold had tackled Heather off of Sonya’s back.
Elmo couldn’t help but worry about Heather. While Harold hadn’t had much time or chance to build up momentum before he tackled Heather, it still was faster than anyone of them could react, meaning it had to have been a powerful blow to her.
However, as Elmo turned to make a move against Harold, he couldn’t help but notice that Harold was motionless. That he didn’t even try to stand up.
Elmo glanced at the others, not sure what to make of this development. The only one who wasn’t hesitating was Sonya. After a moment to register that Heather had been pulled from her back, she was trying to push Harold off of Sonya.
Though, the problem she was encountering was the fact that she wasn’t able to get any real leverage to pull Harold’s unmoving body with just her wolf jaw.
Jonas was the next to recover, Elwin a moment behind him, and quickly moved to help move Harold. Which, while it looked like Jonas and Elwin were barely able to move his body, that they were struggling to lift Harold enough to roll him over. Revealing a dagger sticking out of Harold’s chest at a slight angle and a baffled expression on his face.
Heather groaned, drawing Elmo’s attention back to her. With what happened, he hadn’t expected that Heather would still be able to make a sound. The dagger itself was easy enough to explain: that Heather had been holding it when Harold had lunged at her.
Elmo doubted that Harold had paid it much mind. Not with how he’d been dismissive about them altogether in the first place. As such, if Heather had been holding it at the right angle, Harold’s lunge would have provided the necessary force to drive it into his chest. Assuming the blade was made with quality materials and if Elmo remembered correctly, the dagger that Heather had was given to her by the king and so he would assume that it had been made to fit those requirements.
"Are you okay?" Sonya asked, as she began to inspect Heather in a more canine way than Elmo would have expected Sonya to have done.
"Umm-hmm," Heather replied, though in more of a groan than an actual statement.