Camilla’s heart thudded in terror as the great beast thundered across her improvised barrier. It burst from the burning pine tree trailing great tendrils of smoke. The shaggy tufts of fur coating it smouldered in stinking wispy patches. If the creature had been any more intelligent than a boulder it could have scattered the flames enough to let its smaller brethren through to finish the job but instead the wind of its passage merely fanned the flames to new and alarming heights.

There was no time to appreciate the reprieve though. A fist with knuckles the size of Reikland hams sailed over Camilla’s head and smashed into the stone wall with a spray of dust and gravel. The quarters were too tight for her rapier so she pulled her dagger from her belt and another knife from her leather boot. With a shriek she drove one of the blades into the brutes upper tight, burying it to the hilt. The ogre didn’t even slow, merely whirled around and snapped at her with a mouth full of foot long incisors. 

Cydric’s sword came down in an over handed slash which sliced six inches into the cable like tendons of the thins arm and it whirled away from the Tiean courtesan. Behind her spears lurched blindly through the flames, hurled by opportunistic skaven on the other side. Gripping the edge of her cloak see fanned the flames back towards the rats and was rewarded with inhuman screams as the flames caught several who had strayed too close. The stink of skaven musk and burning fur was indescribable.

With a prayer to Myrmidia Camilla leaped onto the things back driving a knife into the corded muscle around its shoulders. The ogre roared in irritation as Camilla clung to the knives using the weapons as improvised hand holds as she rode on the ogres back. It tried to smash her against the wall but she twisted acrobatically up onto the things shoulders. Rage burned inside of her, she wasn’t going to give Cydric the satisfaction of being right about the need to flee!
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