[ Hei notices the way she angles her body as if wary he'll hit her vital points, whereas most would focus solely on the threat of the knife. He tucks that detail away -- he's been taught to divide the human body into a network of vulnerable nerves: high, middle, and low. If he can exploit that possible weakness later, all the better. ]
[ His weapon cuts into her arm, but she evades the uppercut to her armpit at the same moment. Before he can regroup, she's snatched the wrist of his blade-arm. Her palm heats up, and the touch is searing. Hei doesn't cry out, but the breath he sucks in, sharp and sibilant, is a near thing. Shitshitshitshit. He smells burnt fabric and what has to be scorched flesh. The knife clatters away, but not before he's riposted with a dazzling crackle of electricity where her fingers are wrapped around him. ]
[ Ignoring the constellation of aches all over, trying to throw her off, he puts his body into a spin, the heel of his left foot an axis. At the same time, doubling the force of his attack, he swings his free palm in a knifehand strike toward the radial nerve of her free forearm, following his right leg up with an approximation of a hook kick to the nerve passing outside her thigh. ]
Sunday - Nighttime ♥
[ His weapon cuts into her arm, but she evades the uppercut to her armpit at the same moment. Before he can regroup, she's snatched the wrist of his blade-arm. Her palm heats up, and the touch is searing. Hei doesn't cry out, but the breath he sucks in, sharp and sibilant, is a near thing. Shitshitshitshit. He smells burnt fabric and what has to be scorched flesh. The knife clatters away, but not before he's riposted with a dazzling crackle of electricity where her fingers are wrapped around him. ]
[ Ignoring the constellation of aches all over, trying to throw her off, he puts his body into a spin, the heel of his left foot an axis. At the same time, doubling the force of his attack, he swings his free palm in a knifehand strike toward the radial nerve of her free forearm, following his right leg up with an approximation of a hook kick to the nerve passing outside her thigh. ]