(Easy, easy.  I exaggerated to make a point.  You stuck the axe into Brand, then dug up and opened a plant coccoon.  That's gotta take a couple of minutes even for a marine.  I'll go with it, I'm just asking you to slow down a tad.)<br/><br/>Brand rose to his full ten-foot height, pulling the axe from his back with an angry wrench.  If it had hit a few inches higher he might have lost function of a wing.<br/><br/>"You had better have a good explanation for theis attack, mortal," he rumbled.  "Or I'm likely to take that personally."<br/><br/>The heat was building in his throat, ready for a chance to unleash firey death.