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William groans almost inaudibly as he starts to suffocate. His pupils enlarge. His body convulses as he makes his final struggle. With a violent jerk, he fractures Joker’s nose with his forehead. Blood runs down his face.
His opponent gives a muffled moan as his head is knocked sideways. William slips from his loosened grasp and gets to his feet, sending dirt and vapour flying as he breaks his way out of a crowd of armoured players.
William accelerates, the field speeding backwards under his feet. He strains himself harder and harder until his legs burn, as if at the brim of tearing apart. His surroundings blur into white static. The roar of the crowd escalates in pitch until it is stretched, reshaped, into a single ear-piercing note.
The goal zooms towards William. He lifts his head in admiration —— The fine tubes of aluminium, reaching the clouds, towering proudly as it glows under the sun.
He leaps, a glimmering ripple sweeping the field from where he took off. As he rose into the air the first rays of dusk struck him: He is no longer in his rugby gears — As the golden sunlight flooded him, William is robed in blinding white; his helmet transforms into a winged crown and armour materialise on his shoulders; the collars of his sandals lengthen until they wrap his calves with carved decorations; wings sprout from his back and heels, cracking open, glitter snowing from them and settling onto the grass beneath.