[It strikes true, alright, and the thing rears back up, trying to get away from the sudden thrust, a scream cut into a strangled, gurgling wheeze as it backs away.
But Maria is behind it, unmoving from where she had been before; and now, she can see more clearly the differences between this... creature (there's a tickling of something familiar... the regions around Yharnam had legends of demons like this, she thinks, but doesn't have the time to try to figure out what it is) and the Beast that her old friend had become.
And, what's more, is while it's still reared up and trying to pull back, that gives her access to its human half.
She jumps forward, plants her foot on the horse's hindquarters, and does that brutal cross-slash with her swords... and mostly decapitates the human head of the creature, cutting open its shoulder and leaving it split and bleeding and wheezing even louder. It goes from a rear, to a buck, and Maria nearly loses her balance, but teleports out of the way before she can fall beneath the trampling hooves, even though it ends with an awkward half-roll.
They've got it from both ends, at least. It can't attack them both.]
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But Maria is behind it, unmoving from where she had been before; and now, she can see more clearly the differences between this... creature (there's a tickling of something familiar... the regions around Yharnam had legends of demons like this, she thinks, but doesn't have the time to try to figure out what it is) and the Beast that her old friend had become.
And, what's more, is while it's still reared up and trying to pull back, that gives her access to its human half.
She jumps forward, plants her foot on the horse's hindquarters, and does that brutal cross-slash with her swords... and mostly decapitates the human head of the creature, cutting open its shoulder and leaving it split and bleeding and wheezing even louder. It goes from a rear, to a buck, and Maria nearly loses her balance, but teleports out of the way before she can fall beneath the trampling hooves, even though it ends with an awkward half-roll.
They've got it from both ends, at least. It can't attack them both.]