>>5968903Even with the woman, who you’re 99% sure is a Stranger, and Asher in front of you the most pressing issue to the continued safety of the passengers seems to still be the bandits. Especially as their leader looks to be wisening up enough to grab a hostage from one of the passengers. Your dagger stops this attempt, magic reinforcing its speed to make seem as if it was a bullet. The leader is impaled on the back wall, the speed at which she is thrown makes a few of her underlings crash to the ground.
Both the inquisitor and the women look towards you as your dagger was just sent sailing past their heads, in fact, most of the cabin seems to be quitting down at your action. It’s rather awkward, “We still have enemies to fight, remember?!” You say, doing your best not to stutter.
The ‘Radiant Swordsman’ does a double take at the now limp woman and shuffles to the side of the aisle, “Ahaha, right, uh, after you,” She doesn’t look very confident. At least she gives you a clear path to dart past Asher and towards the bandits.
You expect your kriegsmesser to be met with steel, yet the only thing that offers resistance is flesh and bone. Without their leader, the bandit's formations utterly shatters as they trample over each other to reach the next car, two even losing footing and falling underneath the speeding train. You’re used to fighting the best of the very best at the academy and tournaments, not those who can only act strong to the untrained.
You’re barely even to comprehend that you’ve taken more life until it’s over. You had more trouble using magic to leap over Asher and launch yourself off the ceiling than you did fighting the brigands. Though you should probably write a note to your father and whoever owns the railroads so that they’ll hire more security. If you weren’t here you shudder to think what might have happened to the passengers. All of them wealthy, and would have made excellent hostages for ransom.
As you look back and see the shellshocked faces of the passengers and the viscera around the front and back of two passenger cars you’re pretty sure this may turn into a national headline. And your trip to Ivern may get just a little bit delayed. Or maybe you’ll catch a Stranger right here seeing as your little blitz strike has prevented both the Inquisitor and the strange woman from joining in, the first seemingly restraining himself from acting out on the supposed savior in front of the passengers and the latter looking like she’s about to throw up.
But with the current bandit situation dealt with and the train heading towards its next station there's still the situation with the Stranger, you should
