As Edric came to he could see the silhouette of Cassandra furiously striking at something tall, gangly and incomprehensibly ugly.

"A little help here!?" Cassandra growled narrowly avoiding the things vicious claws.

"With what?" Edric asked sitting up and rubbing his head, his hand came away with red streaks down his fingers. "With that thing? The fuck is it?"

"A demon!"

Edric looked at the four of them. The demon had split into two. Luckily so had Cassandra "Nah, you've got it."

"What!?"

At this point the demon had grabbed hold of the sword, heedless of the blade slicing into its thin little palms. It was trying to use what bodyweight it had to try and shove the other sharp side of the blade into Cassandra's throat.

Woozily he crawled further under the bridge, ignoring the grunts a screeches of their frantic fight, occasionally mumble-yelling encouragement. His knee scraped across something sharp. He found it was a small hand axe and tucked it into his belt. He was rummaging through somebody's secret stash when Cassandra grabbed his foot and dragged him like a dog with a hare back out into the daylight. He almost screamed. Almost.

"You little coward!"

"Was I supposed to do? Yell at it? Punch it with my soft hands?" He flopped his hands around at the thing like two limp dead fishes.

The wretched creature lay crumpled in twisted pile, its dark blood seeping out of its broken body and staining the snow an oily black. It ran in rivulets out onto the ice, bubbling as it carved its way through down into the water below. It stank like a rotten nug carcass burnt to a crisp. Just like his mother-in-law used to make.

"You're a big girl, you can look after yourself." He doubled over coughing at the stench. "Besides you hit anything that even thinks about looking at you funny."

She scowled at him.

"Yea like that." He grinned and inspected he remains of the bridge. It didn't look like there was any feasible way back up. He grabbed a keystone from the fallen arches. "I have a rock, lets go throw it at things."

Cassandra would have hit him again if he hadn't walked out of reach.

"Your going to walk now?!" She asked in irritation.

"Yup, now hurry up I don't know where we're going."

Edric shuffled out over the ice in the general direction of where he thought the other side of the bridge would have gone.