In a heartbeat he stood before the woman in direct line with her strike; shielding Tofu’s body with his own wiry martial artist’s frame. Snapping up his hand, he snatched the dagger from the woman’s grasp and turned it around, placing the tip against her chest.
“Hold it right there.” Ranma Saotome spoke with a loud, authoritarian tone, “Just what do you think you’re doing?”
“Out of my way N’wah!” The woman cried, her voice seeming to echo off of the shoji walls of the nearby houses.
“No, you hold it!” Ranma pushed lightly with the dagger to get his point across and the woman stiffened remembering her position. “That’s better.” He smiled at her.
Akane came up behind him, comforting Dr. Tofu who was still in a state of decided shock.
“It’s ok Doctor, Ranma is taking care of it.”
Ranma hesitated for a moment; it had been so long since he had heard any care whatsoever in Akane’s blunt and to the point speech.
She was not a person who was well known for her compassion or caring; but after all; she had regarded the doctor as a close confidant for a long time.
The strange woman stared back at Ranma across the dagger separating them, her red eyes positively glowing with malice. “Declare yourself N’wah!” She said.
“Ranma Saotome, of the Tendo school of Anything Goes Martial Arts.” He spoke calmly measuring her gaze.
“Ranma Saotome, I am Velothesa; huntress of the Comanna Tong.” From where she was kneeling behind him, he could hear Akane try out the new and unfamiliar words; Comanna Tong.
“What is the Comanna Tong?” Ranma demanded.
“We are the ancient and time honoured Dunmer thieves guild who will one day rise and retake the land of Morrowind for our own; expelling the outlanders and shrugging off the ties of imperial rule.”
“Morrowind? Dunmer?” Ranma echoed her, racking his brains for some reference to these unfamiliar terms.
“I’m not in Morrowind?” The woman’s dark skin seemed to take on a slightly paler hue as she contemplated this fact.
“I’ve never heard of Morrowind.” Akane said, as she helped the doctor to his feet.
At that point, Velothesa let out an unearthly groan and crumpled into unconsciousness; the shock of her new discovery and her wounds proving to be just a little too much for her.
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