<em>"Back to back!"</em><br/><br/>Lydia's command falls on deaf ears.  Hilga is raging now, and she's focused on the harpy that cut into her just moments ago.<br/><br/>Just as Lydia presses her rear up against the back of Hilga's bloody thigh, the tall blond warrior charges at the harpy that drew first blood.<br/><br/>One of the other two harpies swooping down unleashes a shriek, but Lydia's first arrow strikes true.  The projectile penetrates through the cloth mask covering the harpy's face.  The shriek is cut off from the arrow entering the harpy's mouth and going down her throat.<br/><br/>Mortally wounded, the harpy falls to the ground head-first.  Her body spins and black feathers come off her wings.  Starting with her skull and spine, the lightweight bones are broken in a series of wet cracks.  She lies on the dirt path for a moment, and then her body disappears, leaving behind a sack of loot containing talon blades and black feathered wings - useless on their own, but potentially having utility if used to craft something else.<br/><br/>Hilga engages her opponent.  Just as the harpy's handblades, still dripping with Hilga's blood, are about to puncture Hilga, the axe comes down on the harpy's head, making her land prone at Hilga's feet.  She, too, disappears, and all that remains is another sack of similar loot.<br/><br/>The third and last harpy starts to make a move of her own, but she manages to evade Lydia's shot.  After seeing her comrades fall so quickly, the third harpy decides to retreat, and flies off.<br/><br/>Hilga's chest is heaving, her breasts rising and falling.  Slowly, the bloodlust and berzerker rage leaves her body, and she is calm once more.<br/><br/><strong>"Hmm, these might be useful at some point,"</strong>says Hilga, examining the loot.  The sack itself disappears, and Hilga stores the blades and wings in her own pack.  She is oblivious to the cut on her ass that is leaving a trail of blood down the back of her thigh.<br/><br/><strong>"In battle, there are times when I lose control, but become stronger and faster.  So, is there anything useful in that other sack of loot?"</strong><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>