[i]The cruel Zande's attack had been unleashed with such timing as to disallow Tanya reach the knife in the first place. His physical capabilities were considerably above the human norm, perhaps even bordering on crossing into the supernatural. Certainly he had felled many supernatural enemies first hand. A quickly thrown axe in the middle of a jump was scarcely a feat he would be troubled with. Having not seen the dreadful coming of Jancro, Tanya would have little way of making accomodation for it by trying to move faster in response. Assuming this were to be so, then the cannibal would land and whirl about, bringing Hot Steppa up and back down again to separate the woman's head from her body. Of course, should she die, she probably would live on in some other ridiculous reality where there existed such unlikely morons as a futuristic knight and a superhuman barbarian getting into a fight over a fish.[/i]