[ The clash of steel on steel jolts up her arms and shoulders, reverberates in her chest like a familiar melody.
She jumps back instantly, spins and comes back around low this time, all as if in one viciously fast movement, agile as a lightning strike.
The stranger who knows her name is nothing but a monster in her mind. Another one of the bandits after her, or maybe something worse. A vampire, a shapeshifter, an intelligent beast. She reacts only with savage brutality, the paranoia seizing her in its merciless grip, convincing Ciri she must defend herself. It is so remarkably easy to give in. Years spent fighting tooth and nail just to survive have warped, somewhere inside her, the killing instinct sparking to a roaring fire in her blood.
She loves the fight. The thrill. The power. She hasn't spent this long killing to live without enjoying it, on a visceral level.
It's that, usually, her better senses, logic and conscience are a little more in sync.
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She jumps back instantly, spins and comes back around low this time, all as if in one viciously fast movement, agile as a lightning strike.
The stranger who knows her name is nothing but a monster in her mind. Another one of the bandits after her, or maybe something worse. A vampire, a shapeshifter, an intelligent beast. She reacts only with savage brutality, the paranoia seizing her in its merciless grip, convincing Ciri she must defend herself. It is so remarkably easy to give in. Years spent fighting tooth and nail just to survive have warped, somewhere inside her, the killing instinct sparking to a roaring fire in her blood.
She loves the fight. The thrill. The power. She hasn't spent this long killing to live without enjoying it, on a visceral level.
It's that, usually, her better senses, logic and conscience are a little more in sync.
But not today. ]