V O L T E R R A IF IT FEELS GOOD, TASTES GOOD, IT MUST BE MINE HEROES ALWAYS GET REMEMBERED BUT YOU KNOW LEGENDS NEVER DIE His victory is sealed with the hammering wrath of his hindlegs, which bend her ribs beneath their ire. Her submission is absolute, his dominance assured; he lands from his kick and wheels around to face her, a sweating, heaving mass of blackened power and bloodied brawn. His temper, so close to the surface, so untamed, is finally wrestled under control at the sight of her with her rump pressed against a tree, as though to dissuade him from attacking further. But the goliath has no intention of launching another assault on her. She is broken, defeated. There would be no glory in continuing her humiliation, so he lifts his ears from their position rooted in his mane and fixes her with his feral ruby stare. He is aroused by his defeat of her, and there is a husky undertone to his earthquake of a voice when he speaks. "Be at ease, nő." Nő is Hungarian for woman - the rough language slides easily from his tongue as he gazes upon her. She is far more injured than himself (his worst wound is the bruise to his left side, which causes him to walk with a slight limp due to the tightening of the flesh) and his unsympathetic eyes rest upon her ribcage, which could contain broken bones. Ah, she will suffer with those! That is her punishment. That is what she deserves, for tangling with him. He is stallion, and she is mare, and nature's order demands that he crush her. So crush her he did. But he is not about to gloat, or pound her submission home further. He does have morals, and she fought well, albeit deviously. He would dearly love to take her beneath him, to ease the pain of his own injuries with some beautiful, body-wracking pleasure, but he rather thinks she is too broken for that. A shame. It does not cross his mind that she might not want it, although the venom in her eyes and hatred in her posture should give him a bit of a hint; alas, he is oblivious to the notion that any woman might not desire him. "You should see a healer over those ribs. Are you a member of a herd? I will escort you there, if you wish." Let it not be said the leviathan is not a gracious victor, and he will ensure nobody attempts to harm her whilst she is weak.

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Set directly after this! Eris I figured I'd give you some notes on your closing defence here :D @Orithia

Spelling/grammar/prose - As in the rest of the fight, your writing was perfect in this. The likes of 'In days forward, the mare may not think at all, she may lay dead upon the earth, finally broken at the behest of a towering, unnamed demon who had demanded the price of her treachery be paid in blood.' was just amazing. I know I've harped on about it all fight, but you did a really good job, and had the fight been judged I'm pretty sure you'd have whooped my ass in this section! Great job :)

Emotion - PERFECT SO PERFECT Ori gives me all the feels and I'm not even ashamed #orithiaislife

Attacks - N/A

Damage taken - I was a bit confused about where she took the attacks. You say her forelegs were sheared (which I can definitely picture, if she took the full force of the kick to them - that could even have caused a break in her cannon bones), but then say that she's taken the damage to her ribs too? I can't see how his kick could hit her forelegs whilst she's rearing (which would be in front of her) AND her ribs (on the side of her) at the same time.

You did much better taking the amount of damage this time, though - as I said in the cbox, I wish I'd known that you didn't fully understand the dice system, so I could have helped in my notes D: But you still did a great job! Vol rolled a 5, which is pretty heavy damage from a character with his high damage stat. Broken/cracked ribs is pretty much what I'd have taken from this sort of attack too, and you did well describing the implication of such an injury. That's definitely a good thing - if this injury had occured during the first round of the fight, you'd have earned points in the rubric for mentioning your injuries and how they affect you. So this was fab! :D Defence wise, this was definitely your strongest post, I felt. It was just the small confusion of you taking damage to your forelegs AND sides, which could have seen you marked down for realism.

Other - I loved that you mentioned the trees restricting her and preventing some of her movements - although the closing defence isn't actually counted into your score as far as I know, it's good to keep up good practices like these.