69 Impostors 7 (1/2)
But, of course, no one was going to openly express their indignation out of fear; everyone was aware that it would go against their survival instincts to oppose him after they had caught a glimpse of what he was capable of.
And yet... although they knew this, they seemed surprised at their own collective cowardice as everyone was looking around shamefully, wondering why no one had yet stepped forward to help the young woman who had just been knocked unconscious.
In Amandla's case, although she believed that Katelyn deserved what just happened to her and that she was willing to admit that seeing her wallowing headfirst on the grass had given her a certain satisfaction, in her opinion, it was still a bad move on Lazar's part.
”It's the stupidest thing I've ever seen you do.” She told him, looking at him with an amused expression and a serene smile on her face indicating that in spite of this she wasn't more worried than that.
Indeed, even though she was well aware that Lazar had scared everyone and that what he had done would have negative repercussions, she was already knew that wouldn't prevent them from completing their task; now that the survivors were all gathered in one place, no one would be able to escape from her.
”I... panicked.” Lazar said with a tone of voice far too pleased for Amandla to believe in his justification.
She snorted, ”Nonsense, you totally knew what you was doing, you...” As Amandla was about to tell Lazar that just because no one had the courage to stand up to him doesn't mean that everyone was going to be cooperative, she stopped talking because she felt something she was both expecting and dreading, 'Looks like some people are already trying to sneak their way out.'
Thanks to her ability to sense presences, Amandla immediately felt among the several hundred of survivors present, that a few dozen were slowly detaching themselves from the others, taking advantage of the crowd effect to go unnoticed, 'They aren't leaving me any choice.' She deplored, knowing that she was going to have to resort to a drastic method.
”You'll thank me later.” She said to Lazar without context before turning to the crowd and making her bow appear.
Having kept in mind what happened after Lazar made his weapon appear, when the crowd witnessed a bow appearing in Amandla's hands, everyone was now convinced that those two weren't here for peaceful reasons.
However, by the time those who were already planning to escape thought it was necessary to do so more quickly and the very thought of running away formed in the minds of others, it was already too late.
As Lazar saw four arrows surrounded by a white aura with a concentration of energy far greater than anything he had ever seen before form between Amandla's fingers, he didn't made any comments because he was thinking that whatever she was going to do would be in their best interest... and actually, he was even quite eager to see what she was going to do.
In the moment which followed, Amandla shot two arrows one after the other, both in a trajectory going way behind the crowd but in two different directions; one to the left and one to the right.