Maddox knew that the Keqzhara had stopped just in time, partly because of his own control and partly because of the pain that the weight of the spear had caused to his whole arm had made him lose strength at the last moment, but either way, it had been sheer luck, because a couple of seconds more and it would have been driven into Alanna's chest by the simple misfortune of being in the wrong place as he fought while possessed by that rage.

Maybe in another time, in another momento, he would ha