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[h1][center][color=FFE4E1] Constance Marit [/color][/center][/h1]

As the stream still rushed over her boots, she pursued her lips. While her mind often went down the rabbit hole for no reason, this felt different. Knitting her eyebrows together, she tried to focus in on her hearing to heighten it further. Somewhere... She heard a the slide of steel, the pull of a string. Tensing up, she pushed her shield forwards as fast as she physically could. [color=FFE4E1]”Mason! Get down! Get behind me!”[/color] She bellowed. Holding still, nothing happened for a second. Then things seemed to explode.

A rain of arrows fell towards them, and all she could tell was that they were bouncing off her shield- up until she heard a cry of a horse. Instinctively she raised her head, weakening her hold on her shield, which was a terrible choice. Kou pushed past her, making her stumble, while a gigantic brute pounced with an overhead swing. Luckily, it slid off her shoulder plates, and only gave her a slice instead of a stab. Gritting her teeth, she brought her sword around. While she was inexperienced with a sword, she did have the strength. It embed itself into a meaty part of his thigh. Anymore attacks were futile, as he gripped her left arm, pulling out her sword, and incapacitating her dominant hand. Yelping, she slammed her shield into his right side, since his arm was up, trying to get a good liver hit.

Two came in upstream, three from the forest, nocking their arrows towards the trio with a mix of swords and daggers on their bodies, one with a small shield. The other four came riding in on horses, two with their swords drawn, two also drawing their bows. And, of course, the brute attacking Constance. Kou was in a dead run towards the mountains after one from the forest landed an arrow on his hindquarters.

The beefcake of a guy tumbled back, gripping his side, falling to his knees. Many were still shooting at Mason, since he was basically a beacon in the sky saying “Hey, I’m very soft, shoot arrows at me!”. She took her chance while her opponent was still down, because she knew he’d get back up again and they would have to continue fighting. Trying to draw on something from her blood, her ancestors, and then the gods, she went to cast darkness upon all of them.