Violence and Magic

The six men looked uniformly startled by their appearance. They began jabbering in their incomprehensible language, going back and forth between sounding angry and sounding terrified. Quickly, angry won out for at least one of them, who raised his staff and charged at them.

"Yesss!" exclaimed Astra. She bounded forward, easily ducking the man's stave and landing on his chest, knocking him backwards. The man's curses turned quickly to screams, then an indistinct gargling, as Astra sank her fangs into his throat.

Another of the bandits charged Astra, who merely tore the man's outstretched arm open with her claws to disarm him. Two more pounded towards Fred, who leapt back into the trees, then landed squarely on their backs. He noted with relish the sound of their bones cracking.

The other two men, noting the fates of their companions, turned to flee. "Cowardssss!" Fred hissed. Without thinking, he stretched out his arm and proclaimed "Return!" Instantly, the other two bandits were propelled backwards by some unseen force, landing at Fred's feet with a jarring thud that left them unconscious.

So we do have magic powers, just as Mistress promised, Fred mused. He turned to face the young woman, and found her just as terrified as she had been before. Understandable, he realized. After all, she had just witnessed two ferocious cat creatures dispatch six armed men - and Astra was still apparently tearing into hers for a meal. And Fred realized that if he had resorted to fangs, he would have done so as well.

Gently approaching the girl, he knelt before her. "You'rrrre safe," he said as gently as he could. "We mean you no harrrrm. Can you underssstand me?"

1. "Yes, I, I can! Who are you - what are you?!?"
2. "Oh, thank you so much! They - they were going to kill me!"
3. "Are you - are you Jaguari? I was told you were extinct?"
4. "You - you have no idea what you've done! We're all doomed now!"
5. The girl said nothing, but began screaming in terror.
6. Suddenly, the girl laughed cruelly. "Excellent! You've fallen into my trap just as I knew you would!"
7. The girl reached out to touch him, and suddenly Fred realized - she was blind!

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