[it could be a combination. Anna's not big on emotion to begin with anyway. point is this sounds like a really solid plan.]
One... two... three!
[and she's off, holding her sword to the side so she also doesn't hurt her teammate. her robot legs get her there faster than she's expecting, so she very nearly overshoots—it's not really a clean stop on her end, and she ends up digging her sword pretty far back on the central panther's flank. it's a gnarly cut, but it slows her down and makes the beast cry out, so she counts it as a good opening strike.]
[she's not here to rest on that laurel, though, and yanks her sword out to swipe at its legs and make sure that even if it's not out of the fight and dead quite yet, it's gonna be as incapacitated as possible—and she actually has help on this one, too. not exactly the same case for the one she can already hear coming that she'll have to deal with on her own.]
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One... two... three!
[and she's off, holding her sword to the side so she also doesn't hurt her teammate. her robot legs get her there faster than she's expecting, so she very nearly overshoots—it's not really a clean stop on her end, and she ends up digging her sword pretty far back on the central panther's flank. it's a gnarly cut, but it slows her down and makes the beast cry out, so she counts it as a good opening strike.]
[she's not here to rest on that laurel, though, and yanks her sword out to swipe at its legs and make sure that even if it's not out of the fight and dead quite yet, it's gonna be as incapacitated as possible—and she actually has help on this one, too. not exactly the same case for the one she can already hear coming that she'll have to deal with on her own.]