It wasn't how he had expected Adderfang to fight, she didn't seem like the kind of cat who went in trying to bludgeon her opponents and take their strikes. Pleased that he had managed to free himself, and that he had given her a nice clonk on the nose that hurt however much she tired to disguise her smarting snout. It ALWAYS hurt when you got stabbed with claws and paws on a nice, tender shnozz.
But his time for thinking was quite clearly past, as Adderfang lunged at him with a barrage of powerful attacks, so he focused on dodging, figuring that once she had to catch her breath he could nip in and maybe land a neat strike with maximal damage, at least if claws were unsheathed. Leaping back from the throat strike, which he certainly hadn't expected from Adderfang who didn't seem like the kind to go for a kill shot, he coiled his muscles and as she reared up, another thing he hadn't expected from her, he sped forward squirting through her legs and spinning about behind her just in time to leap into the air in the hope of avoiding the back paw which she had swung at his belly. As her paw sliced forward he landed, managing to avoid the intended belly rake although it snicked right up on his breastbrone, which would have been much more alarming if the claws had been unsheathed and he had been short enough for it to catch his face.
He seemed to have caught a brief respite after the paw snicked up past, which he decided meant he ought to have a turn at attacking, at least land a few decent hits if he could. Sprinting forward in a pace that felt much faster than it actually was he swung a paw at Adderfang's ears before trying to move on past, snapping his teeth for her tail in an attempt to almost drag it right on with him as he kept running. He knew it was fairly random, which he hoped would make it harder to counter, and it was his own, aimed for tender body parts version of the grabbing the legs and dragging. @
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