You got this. No one is becomeing a monsters today

You couldn't really live this down if you let someone get taken like this. Fame glory and wealth aren't going to get anywhere near you if you can't kill one of these bull men you've done it before. Just thous times you had more then one spear.

You back up to have a running start, still staying low to keep out of sight. Then you charge. Right at the ridge of the hill you pull your arm back. take aim and toss it right at it's head.

It's a great through, the spear moves like a bolt and the monster turns it head to look at what moved just in time to have the weapon punch trough its left eye and out the back of it's head. The creature howls in rage dropping the woman and clawing at its face. The woman roles to the side trying to scramble away it seems like she can't stand yet though. The Bull-man thing turns to you now bleeding horribly from its now missing eye the wooden shaft still plugging the hole in it's brain. Then it charges you.

Wait what? How is this thing not dead?! That's the best hit you've seen let alone made. There's not a lot of time and these things are too fast to get out of the way. Barlly thinking and mostly by instinct you charge back hurtling down at it it, at the last minute you grab the base of your spear and pull at the same time you fall to your side and slide between the things legs. It grabs for you but with one eye (and a bit of brain likely dedicated to coordination) it misses. As you slide and the creature tips over the tip of you spear cuts through its head on the way out ripping apart it's face as it exits.

You scramble to your feet spear pointed at it adrenalin pumping but the thing is dead, it's enormous body twitches and flails face down but that slows over time. Calm you lower your weapon and breath deep you've never beaten something so large by yourself before.

Turning around you see the young woman hands clasped crying, she leaps and hugs you.
"Gods bless you, thank you thank you" she cries for a while holding you tight. Your happy you saved her and feel for her trauma but she's still sticky from the beasts cum and it sort of under cuts the moment.

You help her collect her things she dropped it all over the place as she was running, she gets around to telling you her name eventually you attribute the delay to her being in a frantic state of mind after being attacked but after a conversation you start to think that her thoughts might always be this scattered. She introduces her self as Sister Mareth and that she's a priestess of her god on a missionary journey to Middlehiem to spread the faith. This is not uncommon from what you are to understand, priests never really made it to your town. From what you can tell they are allot like the shamans from your home who lead religious rights. There are too many gods to keep track of anyway so you don't ask right away who she serves.

"Where were you coming from that you had to pass by here, I've never seen some one pass over the mountains while i've Liked here" you ask.

"Gallium, I grew up there!" she says. What that's the capital it's months by foot and Middleheim is in between you and there it's you next stop and it's still a week away.

"How did you miss it? to find your self up here, did no one tell you that the town was no where near the foot of the mountains?"

"Ha well I got a little lost in the woods, some bandits chased me for a while and I got turned around a lot." she smiles sweetly but your getting sort of concerned for her mental health.

"Look well maybe you should stick by me I'll get you there in a week, if we're fast maybe a healer will be able to deal with the minotaur baby business before you need to see it through" from the sounds of her story she might end up having the baby before she gets there unless you help her out.

"Oh don't worry about that, our lord has given me divine protection on m journey" she shows of a funy little tattoo made of triangles and circles sitting above her pubic mound,"no one's going to get me with this, good thing to since thouse bandits were really mean" her god maybe could have been a bit better about what sort of divine protection he handed out, maybe a little more physical and less contraceptive. You don't think you like her god very much.

With her stuff gathered and a nice pair of minotaur horns you set of to Midheim. The next few days are uneventful but she does chatter a lot. Your happy she seems unscathed by the attack so it's easily tolerable, you ignore a lot of it though most of it sound religious a lot of divine love this and that. You nod and give her a tug when she starts taking the wrong path and wandering away.

Two more days of walking and you'll be in town you settle in fro the night in the woods a fire crackling, you trust Mareth to deal with he fire after she's done with her religious right, as long as it doesn't involve walking she seems rather reliable.

Noises wake you up late at night some chanting maybe it's hard to tell maybe two people? It could just be Mareth making more noise then normal special prayers today?