[ Okay, fair: it'll be easier for her to pin them down and stab them out of trying to kill them, when they're in the open. She'd say so, but that'd be too much. His yelp earns another alarmed glance back, and she drops back just long enough to snatch up his hand again. It'll be easier to make sure he hasn't gone down without a bunch of looks backward.
They don't have long to go, though. She pushes past a spray of leaves and ducks a branch, and then — a clearing, wide and defensible. Once they're far enough into it she drops her free hand to pull a knife out from where she'd shoved it into her belt and gives his hand a hard squeeze. At least one of them's got a weapon. ]
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They don't have long to go, though. She pushes past a spray of leaves and ducks a branch, and then — a clearing, wide and defensible. Once they're far enough into it she drops her free hand to pull a knife out from where she'd shoved it into her belt and gives his hand a hard squeeze. At least one of them's got a weapon. ]
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