If it not for Richard's super speed, Leon would have died that day. As things went down, though, Richard raced over and put his hand between the arrow and its intended target. Then he turned to Zoe in anticipation of the gunshot that had not come, and when he saw how things had gone down, he shot the officer the dirtiest look imaginable.
Things had happened so fast that Zoe had become distracted, and when he turned back to the bowman, he was gone. "Oh, f**k," he grumbled, and when he saw the disappointment in Richard's eyes, he was ashamed.
Richard did not bother to rebuke him. He figured that the embarrassment was punishment enough. Instead, he turned his attention to the arrow that had passed through his palm. He snapped it in half, and the back end fell to the ground, and when he
