"Right. I'll go in guns-a-blazing." She gave him a pat and tapped into the soul crystal in her pouch. With a swift change, she moved from Sage to Warrior, complete with the furs and skins adorning her body and those clawed gauntlets.

"I would only need a moment to prepare, but we can give it a solid whack and see what happens, improvise from there."

She didn't like how it seemed so aloof. But perhaps it spent enough time being an apex predator and had never gone unchallenged until today.