For someone apparently made of sticks and questionable facial hair, the hooded man is doing quite well for himself, cutting off the Hunter's escape routes and keeping the fight at point-blank range. On the inside, the former's physical strength is just too much. If the Hunter doesn't get a second wind or some help soon, this is going to get ugly for him in a hurry.
Luckily, you're here to save the day.
"Left hook's there all day! Body shots!" you call out. While your new student doesn't follow your advice, he does shoot you a perplexed look that gives his gangly foe an opening to slam him into a wall. The Marquess of Queensberry would be ashamed of this performance.
"Turn 'im. Right hand on the break. That's it! Where's the body work?"
"Anderson," says Eileen disapprovingly.
"Fine," you grumble. You plod into the clinch, where your charge's ass continues to be thoroughly kicked, and pull them apart with a confused grunt on one side and eldritch warble on the other. "Break it up, break it up. Ought ta take a point from the both of-"
Before you can finish admonishing, the hooded man clamps onto your shoulders with his distended hands. With a screech, the top of his hood begins to bulge unsettlingly before a pale while tentacle bursts through, wobbling menacingly in the air.
So you nut him in the face.
With a sound like an egg hitting a plate of calamari at Mach 2, the thing collapses to the floor in a pile of discolored blood, rags, and regret. You stomp it a few times for good measure until it stops twitching.
"And that," you say, scraping your boots on the floor to remove giblets, "is how ye do it."
The Hunter looks at you, looks at the thing, looks at Eileen, looks behind him, then offers a very conflicted-sounding "thank you." He still seems a bit shaken up, breathing heavily.
"I," he coughs, before continuing in a deeper voice, "am very grateful, sir, but I have many, many questions."
"And I've got answers. I'm Father Alexander Anderson and she's Eileen."
"Charmed."
"We ransacked the Grand Cathedral, interrogated a vicar, and carved our way through yer forces in a storm o' righteous vengeance. We're here ta smash yer false god, burn down yer foul works, and salt the remains."
He gives you a rather credible impression of a fish.
You shrug. "The key ta a good workin' relationship is honest communication."
Without breaking eye contact, he takes two steps back, then tries to turn and run, which might have worked had Eileen not circled around him while he was still trying puzzle out exactly how fucked he is. He only goes up to her shoulders and, if the shivering is any indication, feels quite a bit smaller at the moment.
"Sir," she says before you can start your own spiel, "I have buried many, many friends, two of them on this very night. Very recently, I learned that your Choir was responsible for a good number of those deaths. You fed them to that coward from Cainhurst. Were it not for the fact that you are still useful, I would have peeled the skin from your face and cut out your tongue before you had a chance to scream.
"Tell us everything we need to know and you will not suffer."
Eileen's mask looks fit to split open and devour him at any moment. You realize she's been holding this in since your talk with Rosemary. Poor fucker.
You hear faint slithering and catch sight of a familiar invertebrate on his wrist. Before you can grab it or call a warning, the writhing panoply erupts, blasting Eileen into the nearby wall with a worryingly organic crash. As you involuntarily flinch back, he fills his hand, and a gunshot scores your desperate tackle.
He's limp when you land, two clean holes on opposite sides of his head.
Eileen's groaning on the wall, the floor is slick with dead man and dead thing, and you can hear the scattershot rumble of approaching footsteps.
This isn't fun anymore.
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