Hell no, Fight it!

This thing is half my normal size, and if its basic attack can't scratch my heavy armor, I have nothing to fear... yet, anyway. Until this thing shows me something scary, I'm not going to run from some catboy. I square up and watch it watch me...We're at a stand off, but I feel like I have the advantage. I don't need to rush in. Before we go further, I shrink my swords to more usable sizes, considering intimidation likely isn't going to work...wait...this feels familiar...

Taking my shrinking as the cue, it starts to rush me. Even with my momentary lapse in focus, my body responds as if its done this before. Like an airbag made of spears, spikes burst from my torso, turning the space in front of me into a punji pit, one which the creature all too ...nimbly dodged? At the last moment, it strafed to my left, and swung its claws into my armpit, where my arm meets my shoulder. A good tactic normally, but my heavy armor has no obvious gaps like that. I react instantly, closing my arm around its claw. I hear the sound of something hard breaking...might be the claw, might be bone, but I don't hesitate, With it trapped at my side, I bring the full **** of right arm onto its head. It barely manages to raise its arm to block me, but I smash through it, and send the monster flying. I don't pursue...Since the secondary purpose of my attack pays off. I managed to see its memories for a second, but at my heightened perception, it was like watching the whole fight so far play out...both rounds of it.

This monster has some control over the moments in time, able to skip ahead, to let it move faster and catch prey off guard, or skip backwards and try to fix its mistakes...speaking of which, As I turn to its body, limp against a tree, I notice its eyes shift from gold to