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Now a bit more wary about approaching her, you take a few moments to analyze your opponent. She's not assuming any stances, her posture completely open, but she seems completely calm and assured regardless. Her previous movements showed impressive control over her balance alongside inhuman strength, though you're not sure if those qualities are innate to her or being caused by the entity within somehow. The fact that she can spontaneously generate extra limbs to attack with through the entity reaching out of her means it's going to be particularly tricky to bind her without opening yourself up to an attack...
Your eyes meet with Barbar's, and both of you nod at each other in silent understanding of each other's plans. If it's going to be impossible to pull this off without exposing yourself, then you're going to have to do just that; your partner can defend you whenever you go on the offense, and vise-versa. You bare your natural claws and clench the muscles in your legs, before both of you burst forward, spraying sand behind you from the force of the movement.
Barbar feints a blow to the back of the head, but in actuality lands the first blow with a sharp kick to the back of her knee that sets her suddenly off balance right in time for your swing to strike out, ripping the bandages from her head to expose her face and leave the shadow less room to surprise you from. Her expression is one of irritation - not rage or pain, like one might expect, but one that bears the same kind of emotion you'd have if a particularly annoying mosquito or fly kept bothering you. You'll have to show the entity that you're no mere fly.
You go for a gut jab only for one of her hands to catch you by the wrist, her other fist flying out to slam into your throat. It fails to meet its mark, however, as Barbar swiftly moves to her side and slams his sheath down onto her elbow, forcing her arm down and away before it can connect. Her leg swipes out to sweep his out from under himself, but you step forward and slam your foot down onto hers right as she's pulling it back, stopping her from bringing it forward.
What follows next you can only describe as perfect coordination between the two of you - a flurry of back and forth blows as you jab your fist into her cheek to throw her off balance, Barbar following it up by rocking her head back towards you with another strike, you giving her a two-handed overhead blow that sends her sprawling towards the ground, Barbar bringing his knee up right in that moment to slam it against her skull.
