The sudden erruption of violence was an assault on the senses, the whole chamber seethed suddenly, the air stank of musk and burning flesh and rot and there was no room in the world for any more noise. For a moment the pressure of it all kept Camilla down but there was no way she would get another chance at this.

Off to her left something exploded in a great gout of green fire and pieces of metal and flesh bounced of the wall adding to the confusion. Suddenly she caught sight of Cydric with rats closing in around him. Fear and elation warred within her as the tide of rats decended on him, teeth gnashing and biting, weapons thrusting in quick panicked strike.

[b]"Cydric!"[/b] she screamed and jumped forward grabbing the rusty bars and shimmering up them with all the grace of a lizard. Her hands came away red with old rust and nicked from burs in the aged metal but she didn't slow for an instant. A moment later she landed on the floor on one hand and both feet, even spread pefectly the fall hurt, but she could worry about that if she survived. Before she could even rise a jagged scimitar in the arms of a burly brown rat thing swept at her face. Camila yanked her hand up and fell onto her bottom, droping below the glittering arc of the swing. With her left hand she snatched one of the daggers from her belt and sliced it across her oponents belly, the rat screamed, there was a spray of blood and pale ropey entrails erupted from its ruined abdomen.

Fighting down the urge to vomit she pushed herself to her feet, blood dagger gripped tight. A rat sailed above her head with the force of a cannonball, smashing into one of the columns with a wet thump. The crack of the things spine was audible even over the cacophony now filling the hall. A quick glance revealed that it had been thrown by a great green skinned monster of some kind. Even as she watched it plucked another rat thing up by the spear and tore it in half with a gleeful twist of its massive hands.

[b]"Myrmidia, Mother of Battles,"[/b] Camilla prayed, trying not to think about what the salty fluid on her lips might be. She looked around in a panic for Cydric but he seemed to have vanished beneath a tide of attackers. Dispair filled her for a moment before, with a great war cry the Imperial burst from the ruck, heaving Skaven aside with his shield, his booted foot crushing the throat of one unfortunate. With a screamed Tilean curse she ran for his almost monumental solidity like a drowning woman striking out for land.

She drove her dagger into the back of one of the rats between her and Cydric, the think shrieked as it fell to the ground, mortally wounded by not quite dead, spraying some foul smelling liquid as it did so. Another blade thrust for her but she slashed its wielder across the face and eyes with the curving dagger sending it running away freely. There were just too many of them, there was no way she would make it through before they cut her, or Cydric down.

[b]"Myrmida, Mother of Battles,"[/b] she repeated, [b]"Shelter fools, whores and orphans." [/b]

Something whiring in the darkness scythed down two rat men with a sickening crunch. Small green skinned goblins, their muscles tearing even as their mouth frothed with mad delight, caromed across the cavern. The were whirling some sort of massive metal balls, attached to them by chains. Rib cages and limbs shattered in welters of gore as the ripped through the densely packed rats.

With a scream of primal terror Camilla dashed across the piles of ruined flesh they had left. Most of the maimed rats were still alive and her foot slipped on bodies and spilled blood as she took advantage of the unexpected opening to cover the few meters to where Cydric stood. As she approached a gray rat jumped onto the mercenary's back, raising a blood slicked dagger. Without thinking about it she hurled her own blade at the horror and it sunk into its eye socket as neatly as she had hit a bulls eye in practice. The thing convulsed tetanically and then crashed to the floor. Several loud explosions sounded behind her as she drew the second dagger.