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[u][b]CATCHING THAT DIRTY THIEF![/b][/u]
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Right... Should have expected this to happen. In fact, Roland had not only expected it to happen, it was the very reason he had chosen to sit on the head of the mighty Elephant instead of standing elsewhere or sitting alongside Trieu. Sitting next to Trieu would have made it difficult to suddenly leap to action, but from where Roland was, sitting right on the head, with his feet resting just on the front of the face. 

Roland was in fact, 100% ready for Jack to run. In the very moment Jack's feet were reached out, in the very moment Jack was kicking off the ground, Roland was doing the exact same thing. He leaned foward, and with a force like a monster, he kicked off, like a missile. Where was Jack would have to gain his speed, Roland's action of kicking off as he did was comparison to that of a rocket going off. No. Rockets are too slow. Roland, empowered by his own song, and the strength of the odds against him, was greater than any bullet leaving the barrel of a weapon. 

His hand already on one of the two blades on his hip, and as Roland was flying through the air, the blade was slicing in an arc. Going from Jack's hip, to Jack's shoulder. A fatal blow, and crippling to a runner even if the blade didn't make the full path. In the less than half second since Jack had started running, Roland was upon him, and by the time Jack's mouth was opening to speak the invocation, the blade of Roland was passing through his stomach. By the time Roland foot touched the ground to make chase with Jack, the boy's upper half would be spinning away from his lower half, and his grip on Durandal no doubt having been lost when his arms where sliced through. 

Despite Jack's ability to disengage, both parties had started from the same starting line, without a huge gap between them that Jack could have relied on for extra protection. This had in short granted Roland the very lack of distance he had required to make this chase short.