foudroyant
- striking as with lightning; sudden and overwhelming in effect; stunning; dazzling
- Overwhelming and sudden in effect
- Pathology. (of disease) beginning in a sudden and severe form
The car's tires slipped on the icy road, fishtailing around the turn with a squeal before lurching forward. Dean moaned from his position stretched out in the backseat. Sam cursed, his knuckles white on the steering wheel. Dean had been dead. No pulse. Not breathing.
The truck pursuing them popped up in the rearview.
Dean had been dead and when he'd started moving again Sam had expected to see black eyes, not irises of gold. His brother had been shredded, worse than the hellhound, and ten minutes later he was fine. And what the hell had those things been? Wolves nearly big as a pony and far more intelligent than he had ever seen.
Sam gripped the one weapon that had worked on them, silver, and prayed he wouldn't have to use it on Dean as well.
This was supposed to be a magic-free reality dammit.