Marius kept his stance until the knife stabbed through his shoulder. A short cry of pain escaped him, but all he did was stagger back several feet more.

It was only then that it occurred to him to fight back; it might become too obvious that he was protecting the location of the camp if he refused to dodge, or at least put up some pretension of fighting back.

He transferred the crowbar to one hand. The wound in his side burned at the movement, but he ignored it as he swung the weapon at Cuthbert's arm, wildly, neither caring if it hit his opponent at all, nor that it left himself open for a counter-attack.