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She was a very lithe creature, barely shorter than I but much more toned. Her arms and legs were heavily fish-like and her feet and hands were webbed. A fish-like tail waved from behind her long hair, and her strangely beautiful face was cold and emotionless, somehow highlighted by her fin-like ears. No doubt she was a Sahuagin. However, I could see the anger in her eyes--I was likely trespassing in her territory.
Before I could even do anything other than react, she was lunging at me again. Luck was still with me as I dodged without getting hurt, but her attack grazed my torso, shredding my clothes a bit. There would be no reasoning with this one--it was make my escape, fight, or die. I tried my best at doing the first one at least. I was somewhat used to pulling out my spellbook from the seal now, and managed to do so quickly to prepare a wind spell to keep this creature out of range.
Despite being out of the water, the sahuagin was incredibly gifted with her leaping attacks. However, I was still fast enough wit the spell, and blew her back before she could strike. I followed up with charging a lightning spell--highly accurate, and would be painful against aquatic creatures. However, it seemed that, somehow she dodged my efforts, leaping closer with every evasion. Even though the whole time, I was backing away from her, she covered the distance quickly, and once again I barely managed to evade a piercing blow. This deadly dance repeated for a time--I would blow her away up close, but any time I tried to stun or harm her from a distance, her dance-like movements would confound my aiming, and I would be barely evading a horrible stab to the gut. I was at a disadvantage, and I knew it.
However, my luck was bound to dry up sometime. Ironically, this happened when the creature stopped and sniffed, and that anger in her eyes evaporated. She still held the same emotionless look as before, but her eyes were alight with curiosity.
