[She was a warrior. Alert, active, skilled- and yet she does not notice the stranger until she feels a hand on her back.
Every single muscle beneath his hand seizes up in alarm, a beat, a crack of joints as her neck muscles tense...
Before she explodes into motion, surging back up, twisting at the waist and reaching out. If he isn't fast... hands seize in his clothing, fist to drag him closer, off balance... before the release, the push, hard, wanting the distance between them while she gets back to her feet, already going for the small blade at her wai-]
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Every single muscle beneath his hand seizes up in alarm, a beat, a crack of joints as her neck muscles tense...
Before she explodes into motion, surging back up, twisting at the waist and reaching out. If he isn't fast... hands seize in his clothing, fist to drag him closer, off balance... before the release, the push, hard, wanting the distance between them while she gets back to her feet, already going for the small blade at her wai-]
Do not touch me!
[It wasn't there.]