>>6152517Actually, scratch that, he is able to get out one startled gasp and plead as you loosen the robes around him. However, it’s only because you see the other man finally start to rise up from his collapsed position at the bottom of the steps. “W-wait,” he says before you take the little bit more drastic action of grabbing the semi-disrobed man by his hair and slamming him, face first, into the nearby wall. From the crunch, you hear something definitely broke, but at least he’s gone limp, too limp to feel the pain. Though you will admit, that was pretty fucking loud and at least forceful enough to cause items on the nearby shelf to fall. You should finish up here quickly. And, of course, why not be dramatic in doing so?
You don’t know if the man jogging up the stairs can see clearly through his mask, but if he can, you imagine he has a good look at the underside of your boot. Seeing as you lept off the top of the stairs in such a side way, your foot impacts his face, and your momentum sends him tumbling down once again. Poor fucker. Though not as poor as you because as the back of the cultist smashes through the rickety door at the bottom of the stairs, you happen to hit your head on the top as you go through. It really hurts! Hurts enough that you don’t see the cultist positioned with a crossbow behind the side of the door, aiming directly where your head should be if you handed it normally. He misses, thank the Goddess, because of your awkward position, and the bolt embeds itself in the open door, but the fact you’re now crumpled in a pile with another, still conscious, cultist does put you in a bit of a bind.
“Hellsfire!” The crossbowman screams before he judges his options and decides to jump on top of you. Which by the way is totally unfair, mind you, seeing as you're still only a teenager (physically), and they're both grown men. So naturally, you do what you need to do to even the odds. And by that, you mean you turn your head around and bite down on the new enemy's arm. Hard. His scream turns rather embarrassing when you start thrashing your head, but it allows you to somewhat push him off. You don’t let go, though. And from your new position, you ram your knee into the groin of the cultist below you, making him lose his grip, and roll yourself over the second to a point where you can leap up above them.
