and the only solution was to stand and fight
The rifling of hooves barreled through, echoes of vague shouts and whistles to alert one another to moving parts and wholes. Another down. Another evaded. Some carefully orchestrated to maneuver down the line, to be confronted by a hunter or tracker leering from behind trees and timber.
But not the stranger – Deimos glanced her way once again as the careening creature broke away, as the unfamiliar woman fought and stabbed, as it did naught but herald more dread and apprehension into the sanction.
His eyes narrowed, and he delivered another blow – a manifestation of Air mustered to thrash against the beast as it lowered its head to charge, and inevitably fell.
There were more crashing sibilances through the trees, more heroic outcries, roars, and warnings coming from another direction. He could pretend none of that had occurred, leave her be and to whatever she was striving for, but the conscience in him weighed over the nonchalance, looking away in case she wanted to find her weapons amidst the broken and barbaric forms, but then glancing back a short while later, Zuriel snorting nearby. “You all right?”
But not the stranger – Deimos glanced her way once again as the careening creature broke away, as the unfamiliar woman fought and stabbed, as it did naught but herald more dread and apprehension into the sanction.
His eyes narrowed, and he delivered another blow – a manifestation of Air mustered to thrash against the beast as it lowered its head to charge, and inevitably fell.
There were more crashing sibilances through the trees, more heroic outcries, roars, and warnings coming from another direction. He could pretend none of that had occurred, leave her be and to whatever she was striving for, but the conscience in him weighed over the nonchalance, looking away in case she wanted to find her weapons amidst the broken and barbaric forms, but then glancing back a short while later, Zuriel snorting nearby. “You all right?”
DEIMOS
