Kassie thrust her sword forward with an explosion of force. When the blade punched into the Glacial Patriarch, it drove the massive ape backward and slammed it into the glassy ice wall hard enough to shake the entire cavern. Cracks spiderwebbed across the frozen surface.
The Spirit Beast flailed its arms desperately toward her, growling with ravenous eyes and gnashing its teeth with raw indignation. Foam and frost dripped from its maw. But Kassie merely returned a cold, undisputed stare, her hair slowly falling to cover part of her face from the violent movement.
'Yeah, that's the look. Real comforting.'
She pushed the sword even deeper, sinking it slowly to the crossguard while stepping closer to the Spirit Beast. The ape grandpa grew weaker, and could barely hold her gaze at this point. Its breathing turned shallow, rattling. With its last strength, it threw one hand forward — but Kassie reacted with a speed my eyes couldn't successfully track.
