Ciri nodded to his plan.
"Sounds good!", she said. Though, truth be told, she'd likely have said that, had his plan been to just politely ask the executioner to "Please stop what you're doing."
As plans went, it was like 3,6 röngtgen: Not great, not terrible. Objectively speaking, it would stand a higher chance of success if she did the fighting and he helped the victim to safety, but....she'd impeded upon his masculinity enough now.
But when they headed out, and were met by his former group, everything went to heck in a handbasket. She almost drew her sword, but then took her lead from Lukas and ran, making sure to run fast enough to keep up with him, but not fast enough to overtake him.
This, however, was apparently not fast enough, as the other group was gaining on them, and Ciri had to make a split-second decision: Did she throw off the mask of "damsel in distress" or did she stand and fight and save his character?
One of those lightning-quick risk assessments that Geralt had trained her in, told her the answer plain as day: From their reaction and words, he'd already know the truth, even if he hadn't had time to process it. Why pretend. So she let Lukas get a little bit ahead of her, let the others get a little closer, before she suddenly stopped and took a side-step at the same time, while also drawing her sword and quickly and effortlessly deliver what in the game was a one-strike-kill; meaning a direct swing to the back of the guy in front.
It was meant to signify decapitation, but of course no strikes against the head was allowed for obvious reasons.
After him, she faced the other three, and almost instinctively assumed the stance Geralt had taught her when faced with multiple opponents.
The remaining three guys hardly even saw their demise coming as Ciri practically danced around them, landing strike after strike before they could parry or do anything else. One of them managed to block a couple of strikes, which Ciri was quite impressed by, but by that time the other two had fallen to "decapitation strikes" and she very quickly made short work of him too.
When the fight was over, she pointed back towards the temple.
"I believe you know the way", she smirked and then headed back in the direction she'd last seen Lukas go. She just hoped it wasn't over for her now....and she didn't mean the game!
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