Binds Maenad

This time I stepped to one side, avoided her outstretched hands with their long sharp nails and gave her a tremendous thwack to the side of her head. She went down on her knees and I could have easily driven the point of my blade through her chest.

Instead, I transferred my staff to my right hand, reached into my pocket and coiled the silver chain around my left wrist. A silver chain is useful against any servant of the dark – but would it bind a maenad assassin? I asked myself.

I concentrated hard, and the moment she came to her feet she was illuminated by a particularly vivid flash of lightning. Couldn’t have been better! I had a perfect view of my target and released the chain with a crack. It soared upwards to form a perfect spiral, then dropped around her body, bringing her down on the grass.