De-saddle

As I got to my feet and ran forward, I saw the three broad brown leather straps holding the mage’s saddle in place. I stretched up onto my toes and whirled my sword overhead in an arc, cutting through them, hoping that Lenklewth might be sent tumbling off.

The straps parted. The tip of the Starblade had also cut into the vartek’s flesh, and I stabbed upwards into the neck again and again. Its screams became frantic, its whole body convulsing.

Starblade Book 2 Chapter 20