Example of Richard's bullet time:
“”Richard paused. His head came up. Nadine was behind him. He had the oddest sensation.
The hair on the back of his neck stiffened.
The world slowed. Sound dragged. He floated as he moved. The air felt as thick as mud. Everyone seemed a statue in his vision.
Time was his.
His arm stretched out as he drifted ahead. He commanded the thickness of the air. In the eerie silence, he could hear the feathers singing. He could hear the hiss of blade.
Time was his.
Nadine’s startled blink took forever.
He closed his fist.
With a slam of sound, the world crashed back with a wild rush.
In his fist, Richard held a bolt from a crossbow.
The blade wasn’t three inches from nadine’s wide eyes.
A fraction of a second more and it would have killed her.
That fraction of a second had been an hour to him.”
Hope that clears things up a little as to whether he could react.
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