Fury's plan had been either to sleep light or feign it, but sleep was sleep. As tranquil as it was, it was chaotic, impossible to control. It could be pushed away, sped up but neither free of consequence. You could guess how long your sleep was, but you could never know what would wake you up.
Fury had trusted in her control. In it and because of that she'd been broken out of it by an explosion of pain, twinkling lights and an abrupt and powerful jerk which knocked all she'd held out her hands. She was airborne where she hung before falling to the floor in a heap of screaming pain.
Within that same moment Ferry fell over her, he was massive, it was like an ocean over her limbs. She roared in his ear but could not lift herself free.
He squeezed on her neck, pressing her into the soil. Her coat came off, ripped. Her tunic followed before being thrown aside. She panicked when her belt was snapped and pulled off. There was a sharp ringing in her head, consciousness threatening to slip.
The pressure loosened when Ferry got stuck on the chainmail, but it didn't last, he pulled it up to her armpits exposing her chest. She struggled and managed to get fingers between her throat and his hand. With the threat of being strangled reduced, she scooped up a handful of sand and shoved it into his eyes, nose and mouth just as he'd finished pulling apart his own trousers, exposing himself to her. He roared and clutched his face.
She took her moment and punched him in the face and torso. It was enough to get him off. She scampered like a desperate rat to her feet. She struggled to gain balance but stood firm.
Fury made to grab for her bag, but Ferry held her pants which hung loose by her waist, pulling them to her knees. She turned, spinning, catching his arm in between the pants and twisting. She landed on her exposed buttocks but managed to drop both fists onto his skull.
He let go and she jumped for her bag, dropping just short and crawling. She opened it only to have it knocked out of her hands when Ferry fell over her, dropping her face first into the dirt. She was stunned long enough for Ferry to level his full weight on her back, pinning her, his chin on her shoulder. She flailed but couldn't reach. He had her.
His hands wrapped around her torso and neck which she kept from being exposed by pressing her face into the soil.
"This is it," He began, adjusting himself. "You know my mother told me once that girls feel it when they conceive, you must tell me what it feels like after. When I take charge, your job will be taking care of the babies, you'll look after every one of them, alone. I'll mate with every one of your girls. You and Winter especially. Even when you're not in heat. You don't have to worry Fury, you'll enjoy it. Now let me position myself, okay?"
Fury reached out desperately and caught steel, she could feel his exposed skin against hers.
She pulled gazilam and swung, catching him in the cheek. The swing was blind and awkward, her literally not knowing the up or down of the blade. Only that she had to swing where she couldn't reach. If she hit him with the butt, he'd tear it out her hands and it would be over, the same would occur if anything but the sharpest end hit.
The sharpest end hit.
She felt blood drip onto her scalp and her cheek. Roaring, he squeezed, catching her in a vertical bear hug. She couldn't breathe, everything numb was now on fire. Her ribs pressed into her centre unnaturally. She pulled out a broken vial and pressed to his cheek.
He screamed.
To yell was one thing, to wail, to roar, but to scream?
'The submission cry' hurt her ears, but to her heart, they were bells of freedom.
She jumped to her feet, kicking off her pants and lifting Gazilam.
Twisting the golden bulb at the end produced more steel, turning Gazilam into a spear. She held it as though it were a bat, standing over Ferry, who screamed right until she stomped on his erection, forcing his hands off his face. She lifted the cleaver and swung, saying one word before the hilt connected with the side of his head and his world turned black.
"Pathetic"