Just as the woman collected Dion into her arms, Valka abruptly whipped her leg at her head. A faint smile danced on the woman's lips.
The leg was about the slam into the woman's head when another pair of muscular, furry, bestial arms burst forth from beneath the woman's cloak and snatched Valka's leg in a vice-like grip.
However, Valka yanked Dion's blade out of the scabbard and slashed at the woman's neck with a shocking speed. The blade cut through her neck with an impeccable smoothness.
The woman's head soared through the air, spinning and bouncing upon the ground before finally coming to a rest. Even in death, her mouth maintained a faint smirk.
The decapitated body slowly toppled backward, still embracing Dion with its human arms and clasping Valka's leg in its bestial arms.
