[IRP] The Dead One Calls

[Lavi]

Cecily's vision, although still spotty from the blinding light, could barely make out the hands of someone reaching out towards her. Where did Satsume go? The woman took quick steps backward, unsure how to respond to the incoming grip that she perceived to be impossible to escape from. She felt her foot brush up against something and Cecily immediately bent over, picked it up, and swung it with all of her strength just as the bandit's fingers closed around one wrist. A loud crack of breaking wood responded to her efforts and Cecily felt the powerful grip go slack.

Her vision cleared to see the third bandit on the floor, knocked out beside the ruined cribbage board.

"Your game turned out to be good for something," she dryly remarked. It was too obvious a jest, but it was too hard to let pass.

With the bandit leader skewered by Satsume and the wounded bandit knocked out by Cecily, there was only the blinded bandit left.