it was now only lucifer versus the two alphas of letorque and i could sense by the way his body reacted to the sudden change in circumstance he was going to do the one thing which might possibly give him some satisfaction so i reached behind me , grasped the only thing i could find to ward off what i knew was going to happen , and when lucifer made his last desperate move , a move so fast i could not see it coming , he ran face-first into the torch of letorque held out in front of me like a long-sword of past ages .