Ripper

As he dipped even lower the attacking humans slipped into range for his combat awareness. Only then did he realize there were more than he thought.  In the brief burst of light before he had seen four, but his combat awareness told him there was another set behind them.  They passed over another of the large muskets while taking back the others.  In the next blast of light, he spotted another of the nine closing snowmen blown apart.  He also saw the icicle limbs of the first moving towards a mound of snow that was swelling up in an unnatural way.