[quote=@BytheSpleen]
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It may come to the murloc's surprise, then, that Iosef didn't appear behind the man for the first few seconds.

It wouldn't come to the man's surprise, one would suppose, that Iosef came in swinging his blade (both hands on the sword) at the murloc's knees from behind.  Steel armor or not, the murloc's joints would have a good banging.  Once that was that, Iosef simply slammed the blade at the murloc's neck, repeating the same swing as he did when he used to forge large farm implements.
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The murloc had somewhat expected treason from him as he himself had planned to backstab Iosef in the back, however as soon as he landed the first hit on the murloc, the human had drawn his sword and swung at Iosef, more to push him back than to actually attack him.

"You!" the human shouted. It was the human that Iosef had stolen the horse from. "First you take my horse and now you want to kill my bounty hunter in front of me?!" he shouts at Iosef. "Get out of here before we kill you and skin you alive!"