<div class="floatright">(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/db/e9/cf/dbe9cf5fe0e93ceb0b2c4707e6679664--character-portraits-character-ideas.jpg)</div>'We're doing it... I can't believe we're doing it!' was repeated over and over in Sophia's mind as she lopped off the tiny bald tails left and right. the mantra ran around and around like a white noise of victory and the almost feverish glare of hope kept her blind and deaf to the goings-on around her. She remained completely oblivious to the sudden appearance of magic as her ears were filled with the squeaks and squawks of her fallen prey.<br/><br/>"That's right, you little shits. You're our bitches." She grinned, hammering another into the dirt as it tried to flee.<br/><br/>"Hey Les, how are you making ooowwwwwhooooaaah!!!" Turning, she had intended to face her friend but her smooth soled boot found a patch of Lesniya's ice, wriggling rat trying frantically to free what was left of itself from its frozen prison.<br/><br/>Many words had been used to describe Sophie and her thick frame, but not a single one had included delicate, dainty, graceful or elegant. Her foot went one way while her hips protested, yanking her in another, the end result was the proud girl's features looking utterly betrayed, face first into the heavily trodded and sopping ground. Abandoning her sword she braced for the fall as best she could, landing on hands and elbows while getting sprayed in the face with mud. Wait... that was mud, right? Please let it be mud.<br/><br/>She was just in the process of wiping it from her eyes, which it had just missed when she heard.<br/><br/><em>“Uh oh…”</em><br/><br/>"No. No. I'm okay, see?" Soph had pushed herself up onto her knees, trying to bush off the clay like earth that had caked onto the front of her, wetness soaking into the fabric. She waved at her partner to show that she was just fine, bloody, muddy tails still clamped in her fist.<br/><br/>"What are you gawking at Leee...." That question promptly answered itself when she heard it. Growls punctuated with the wet splattering of spittle as it leaked from the sagging jowls of the massive rats. Rats that were now surging on the pron Evenember, still half sprawled out on the ground.<br/><br/>Before she could even pull the gag of shock from her mouth to scream, the creature lunged, latching its massive incisors around her ankle. The smell was almost enough to knock her out cold as it's putrid breath nearly eroded the skin off of her face. It began dragging her backward, squeezing her leg and causing her to yelp in fright and pain. She tried to grab for the sword but already it had pulled her out of its reach so she tried the only thing she knew how.<br/><br/>"Get OFF OF ME!" She yelled, her voice panicked and threadbare, all the boastfulness having evaporated into thin air. She kicked at it's hideous, boil riddled face, aiming for its nose and eyes but only successfully managing to piss it off even worse. The rat snarled at the discomfort and gave her leg a rather firm shake. The resulting loud 'POP' that was both heard and felt in every orifice of her body make her scream. Her foot dangled uselessly in its maw, her ankle having been successfully dislocated.<br/><br/>"NO!" She squealed, eyes tearing up in anguish and fear. She reached for its face, clawing towards its eyes when she felt it.<br/><br/>From the back of her neck, she felt her hairs stand on end, the tiniest pinprick of energy. It felt like it was leaping from hair tip to hair tip down her arm, building in intensity as it traversed the distance to her fingers. She saw it before she heard it. Golden sparks sizzled along the backs of her hands and in an instant, she felt as if her entire mitts were on fire. The sizzling crackle and erupting dazzling golden light crashed into the face of the creature at the exact same time she screamed.<br/><br/>"SMITE!"<br/><br/>The words leapt from her lips as involuntarily as the spell of holy magic and the furry, toothy mess of a maw released her at once, flailing and squeaking as it's rotund body wriggled, causing the ground to ripple and quake with its weight. The bolt of magic ricocheted off of its forehead and zoomed with almost deadly accurate into the moist and puckered opening of the cave, it's brilliant light illuminating everything in its wake. Dozens of mammoth rats ducked and scattered and from somewhere deep within the cave, it made contact with a thunderous crash.<br/><br/>Sophie sat on the ground completely nonplussed, her ankle momentarily forgotten as she stared dumbstruck at her hands, the mud on them now baked to a brittle crisp. She flexed her digits and the earth crumbled into a fine powder. She had studied that spell before, but she had never expected she'd need it. Hell, she didn't even remember its name before just now.<br/><br/>As she sat in awe of her own sudden abilities the blinded rat had quickly begun to recover and it was much much less impressed with the reluctant priest's sudden puberty like on set of magical ability. It got to its feet and headed towards her, forcing the woman to scramble, dragging her ass and useless leg behind her.