After Maven showed her face everything seemed to move into one continuous moment. Everything seemed to just flow forth like an undisturbed yet rushing river. Maul was the first to react. There was an intense deafening roar coming his mouth as his sword flashed and he was up and moving, leaping forth and dropping down on his feet. Maven turned on her heal and ran faster than I would have thought possible. Brynjolf wasn't even given a cursory glance as Maul ran past him. Mjoll and Kari dropped down after Maul, both shouting his name. Brynjolf lunged forward towards the ramp trying to make his own escape and I realized he still hadn't seen me.
Once again my body took over from my mind, just as at it had when I first encountered Kari. Time slowed to the point it nearly stopped moving all together. Knife suddenly in my hand my feet surged forward to the edge of the ramp and I flew. Brynjolf didn't even register I was coming straight for him until we collided and landed in a heap on the floor. I blinked, my wrist jerked and drove my knife into his chest to the hilt. My body moved until I was straddling his waist as my arm jerked back and forwards over and over again. I wouldn't stop stabbing him. Repeatedly my knife drove its self home as his screams dragged out and died away into a gurgle as his lungs filled with blood and I still didn't stop. He was dead and I was covered in his blood long before my hand stopped moving.
Time moved again only to speed up impossibly fast. I was on my feet and shooting like a bullet past Mjoll and Karis shocked expressions. Steady feet carried me through twisting mist filled tunnels at a speed I didn't know myself capable off. My brain moved faster than my thoughts as I burst through an opening into a brightly lit ravine. Before me stood Maul with Maven just in front of him, hands out in front of her like she'd been trying to reason with him.
Distantly I'm aware that I screamed his name out loud. He turned towards me leaving himself partially open. Once my body decided it was close enough I leapt with all the force I had in my legs and latched onto his form. He was too strong and sturdy for me to topple which somehow worked out in my favor. He wrapped one arm around my waist to hold me up and to his body. The other he bent at the elbow to hold it over us in a defensive manner. I may not have toppled him but he did take a step as if off balance. My hand reached forward and slipped his sword out of his own hand. Readying my arm, when he took his step forward to regain his balance, I swung. Somehow, someway, we moved together in a dance of movements. His foot went forward which turned me to the side and towards Maven while my arm swung and arched… Not just reaching Maven but severing her head clean from her shoulders. There was a moments pause as everything stilled then her head rolled and she toppled to the ground in front of us.
Sound crashed down on me in a massive wave and time began to righten its self. Maul and I were breathing hard, breath coming in short gasps together. I turned my face to look at him only to find him already staring at me. My free arm was wrapped around his neck which brought us closer than I had originally noticed. His eyes were hard, expression dark as his other arm wrapped around my form… But just as time caught up with us so did my sense of awareness. Mauls sword was suddenly impossibly heavy in my hand but before I could drop it… My arm snapped like a twig.