Fight

If I let her bring them back, I’ll have lost the opportunity to question her about what she said. Moving silently above the warrior, I took a breath and leapt, landing on him, sending him sprawling and my new dagger sinking into his neck. With a wet gurgle, he collapsed as I charged towards the leader.

Slamming into her, I knocked her rapier away, leaving her weaponless and landing on her back as she gasped, “No friends to help you now princess.”

Seeing the warrior down behind me and looking at her other companions seemed to break something as she started to back away, continuing until she hit the side of the cavern, startling. Seeing this, she started breathing heavily, her eyes pinpricks as she let out a shrill cry and charged, rapier raised.

But it wasn’t to be, as her fear and desperation made her sloppy, swings going wide as I lured her back, slowly channeling the dark powers at my hand and lunged, slamming my hand against her breastplate and casting ‘Dark Pulse I’ shattering it and sending her spiraling back onto the floor.

Capitalizing on the moment, I charged forward and leapt onto her as she tried to rise onto her hands and knees, “Now what was that you said about an archbishop?”

“I’ll never tell you, beast! I’ll never betray the Light!”

“Look around you,” I said as I turned her head towards her fallen companions, “Does it look like the Light is here?”