tree feat

She leaped a dozen feet straight up, grabbing a two-foot-thick branch
and wrenching it away from the trunk without any sign of effort. She was
back on the ground in the same instant, balancing the huge, gnarled lance
in one hand for just a second. Then with blinding speed she swung it—
one-handed—like a bat at the tree she’d ripped it from.
With an explosive boom, both the branch and the tree shattered in half.
Before I even had time to shy away from the detonation, before the tree
could even fall to the ground, she was right in front of me again, just two
feet away, still as a sculpture.
“As if you could fight me off,” she said gently. Behind her, the sound of
the tree crashing to the earth echoed through the forest.

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