>>5452553>1What you DIDN’T expect was the Duelist to throw one of her blades. You raise your sword to deflect it, and succeed… But this puts you in a bad position to protect against her follow-up gambit. As you bat the hurled shortsword aside, Azonia charges forwards with a shriek of a war-cry, leaning forward to keep her profile low. She’s going to gut you!... or, well, at least land a blow that WOULD, if you were truly fighting to kill.
It would be enough to win the duel, anyway.
You can’t bring your blade into position fast enough to dodge. To kick forward would be folly—you’d be off-balance. She’d topple you and strike a different killing blow. If this is a game, then you are strategically boxed-in, without any counter-play which is both feasible and which will not set you up for another sort of defeat.
Well, that’s what you WOULD say, if you were an elf, a human, or a dwarf, or even a ghoul. Lucky for you, you’re not.
As such, you simply swing your spade-tipped tail around, to smack the Drow squarely in her surprised face.
