[it's not hard to pull off, because Anna's center of gravity is different and she still isn't expecting to run across, much less deal with, magic in the real world. (the flight doesn't count because that was a ring.) though the blade only gets pushed away instead of dropped entirely, Anna stumbles for a brief second. and when she's righted herself, the shillelagh smacks against her fingers and she's forced to take one hand off the hilt to try to jab at it.]
[she glowers at Penelope while this little display is going on. it's too close to use her sword against, but... if she backsteps faster than Penelope can react, that might let her slice it out of the air. ignoring the pain in her fingers, she grabs the hilt with both hands again and takes a wide step backwards, and before she wastes too much time worrying about whether she can do it or not, she tries swinging the blade upwards at an angle to get that shillelagh out of her way.]
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[she glowers at Penelope while this little display is going on. it's too close to use her sword against, but... if she backsteps faster than Penelope can react, that might let her slice it out of the air. ignoring the pain in her fingers, she grabs the hilt with both hands again and takes a wide step backwards, and before she wastes too much time worrying about whether she can do it or not, she tries swinging the blade upwards at an angle to get that shillelagh out of her way.]