Jahar merely listened to the man's tirade, a look of amusement growing on his face as the spittle coated coins bounced at his feet.  When D'Angelo finished, he shook his head with an exasperated chuckle.  "I don't really care what you call yourself, and the only thing I know for sure about the Veiled-Ones is that they talk too damn much."  If the man thought Jahar could be affected by mere words and gestures, he could not be more wrong.  No, it took far more than that to rattle the hardened killer.

He watched his opponent unsheathe his short sword--what in the hell was that off white blade...possibly carved from bone?--and come at him, the long sword whistling through the air.  While examining the shorter blade, he had missed the color change and so was unaware of the transformation, though the adamantine would likely do little to damage his own enchanted weapons.  At the last moment, Jahar moved with practiced grace, his clawed left hand leaving the sword at his side to snap out and intercept the path of the blade, effectively catching it between the two center claws against the crossbar over his knuckles.  A slight twist of the wrist would lock the longsword in such a way that only reversing its motion would easily free it.

Simultaneously, he raised his sword in his right hand and slashed down, the strangely gleaming blade moving in a diagonal arc that would likely hack deeply into Nicoli's arm below the shoulder should it land.  Jahar knew that the angle of the attack would make the blow difficult to dodge effectively without sacrificing Nicoli's grip on his longsword, but it was certainly slower and less powerful than it would have been had he used two hands.  Therefore, it would be possible to parry or block with D'Angelo's much smaller blade; in fact, Jahar was counting on it, for the moment his gleaming khopesh neared his opponents torso and head, he would with a mental command ignite its ability, producing a brilliant flash of pure blinding sunlight, accumulated over hours of absorption during the previous day.  The light was bright enough to cause a momentary sensation of searing heat on any exposed skin for both combatants, though not enough to cause actual harm.  The only warning Nicoli would have would be the closing of Jahar's own eyes the instant before the flash.