[takes it, I AM SURE LISTENING INTENTLY TO WHICH DIRECTION IT'S COMING FROM, huh they're ... fast]
Hmmm, now where were you hiding this ...
[not that she's really waiting for an answer - she just stabs the thing through the jaw when it lunges at them and then, with a shaky, deep breath, grabs and clings to the underside of its neck, her fingers digging under the scales.]
Now ... a thought's occurred to me. [while she's right up under its face, staring at it with her empty sockets] You might be more manageable if I did ... this.
[and while it thrashes and starts to grow a second head ... she takes another shaky, deep breath, and pushes herself, digging her fingers in - pausing, dangerously - and heaves out the breath at the same time that she ... heaves the hydra ... into the air ... with the sword still in it, of course.]
[and then nearly falls over, limbs loose and quivering --]
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Hmmm, now where were you hiding this ...
[not that she's really waiting for an answer - she just stabs the thing through the jaw when it lunges at them and then, with a shaky, deep breath, grabs and clings to the underside of its neck, her fingers digging under the scales.]
Now ... a thought's occurred to me. [while she's right up under its face, staring at it with her empty sockets] You might be more manageable if I did ... this.
[and while it thrashes and starts to grow a second head ... she takes another shaky, deep breath, and pushes herself, digging her fingers in - pausing, dangerously - and heaves out the breath at the same time that she ... heaves the hydra ... into the air ... with the sword still in it, of course.]
[and then nearly falls over, limbs loose and quivering --]
H-haha, running would be good now!