That rat was cleaved by the bit of the axe's edge, rather it was just not in twain, slicing down its side and burying itself in the ground. More blood hit the air, along with a distinctive sickening sound of an arrow penetrating flesh. Just beside the bleeding gash carved down its sickly hide, Tracan's arrow embedded itself. Free of her bow, its shot had been woven just between the goliath's roaring strike and against the broad side of the rat, sinking almost to the fletching.

The punishment the monstrous vermin was enduring was substantial, as nothing short of Renault's strike had cut so cleanly into it. Each blow seemed to be turned aside ever so slightly, each wound inflicted forced into the flesh with such effort, and the rage of the beast hardly tempered. Even the elf's arrow, as she prepared the next shot, seemed to have truly done little to harm it. Its scarred, bloodied hide made it more manic as the flash of its seemingly red eyes alight in the flames of lantern and torch turned on the giant woman as she hefted back her axe.

With blinding speed and fury, it lashed out at her an tore at her exposed arm, its teeth rending at her flesh. With force she reared, liberating herself, but not escaping injury. The once gladiator swept her arm as she did so, ensuring that had her foe held on, it would have lost part of its face - no stranger to weapons that latched on or grappled with her. To her luck, and that of the diabolical broodmother, it dared not attempt such a maneuver but that did little to quench the searing pain and shock of a strong wound taken in.

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Vah'lux strikes the rat, which in turn bites her on its turn for 4 points of piercing damage. On the turn of Tracan, she scores a solid hit with her bow. However, it appears the rat is far more durable than it regularly appears and that beyond its rage, it is tougher than its flesh implies. Wounds and injuries seem to be hard won and grazing, even if the creature is relatively easy to strike.[/hider]
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