This thing had taken on the form of someone who had hurt her. That was his takeaway. In some way he didn't understand, the real person whose face the monster word had hurt her.
The how didn't matter, all that mattered was that she was afraid and he wasn't, and that was all he needed to decide that he was going to fix it.
He ran towards the monster, spear in hand. Attacking it this time wasn't as easy as when he killed the Eep monster. He'd tricked the monster that had been sent for him by pretending to sleep and attacking it right before it attacked him. This one saw him coming.
He managed to stab it in the chest but it grabbed onto the spear with one hand so he couldn't withdraw it for another blow, trying to scratch him with its free hand. So holding onto the spear with one hand so it couldn't wrench it away from him, he used his other to reach for the rusty knife at his belt, using it to hack at the zombies arm until it was a mangled mess. Then he aimed for its neck.
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The how didn't matter, all that mattered was that she was afraid and he wasn't, and that was all he needed to decide that he was going to fix it.
He ran towards the monster, spear in hand. Attacking it this time wasn't as easy as when he killed the Eep monster. He'd tricked the monster that had been sent for him by pretending to sleep and attacking it right before it attacked him. This one saw him coming.
He managed to stab it in the chest but it grabbed onto the spear with one hand so he couldn't withdraw it for another blow, trying to scratch him with its free hand. So holding onto the spear with one hand so it couldn't wrench it away from him, he used his other to reach for the rusty knife at his belt, using it to hack at the zombies arm until it was a mangled mess. Then he aimed for its neck.