"You'd have a better chance of survival if you found cover."
The useless advice only succeeded in making Kryss laugh. He reminded her of an amateur what with her comments having gotten him to respond, despite her deciding that he was more skilled than many around these parts. Hey, she'd at least give him that. Speaking to one another proved to be an excellant distraction in many cases. This case, however, was different in that they were exchanging weak blows with words rather than with weapons. Words distracted neither of them.
What a peculiar man this was... If he hadn't claimed her as a mark, if they had met on differing terms, she may very well have questioned him. Could he have been a player whose coordinates were also scrambled? She'd never seen armor quite like what he was adorned with, but there were always new battle upgrades as well as differing species and armor that each wore. Perhaps he was a species that she had yet to face?
Gun on her own mark as Talyc leaned out from behind his cover, if either decided to shoot it was going to be a show down on which could pull the trigger a split second faster or whom was fast enough to dodge the bullet in the moment's delay. Clearly, it was the most risky stand-off any two could find themselves in. At least with blades and fists more time and more reactions made the situation more fair. This was not the case here.
Kyrss' muscles tensed in preparation to evade his bullet, only to find that he didn't shoot. He jumped out fully from his hiding place and she immidately took aim. Then came the words... She'd been paying him too much attention! She cursed as she felt a smaller figure jump and latch onto her back. The force had her leaning over the edge of the roof about to topple over and off. She planted her feet and regained her footing in the last instant, spinning away from the ledge.
Reflexes had her drawing the switch blade across the ankle of the child, not enough to do permantent damage, save for a scar, but enough to inflict pain and impede her ability to support herself upon it for the next few minutes or even hours. Kryss drew first blood in this act, but she wasn't of mind in this instant. The woman's body acted on it's own as she placed the handle of the blade in her mouth and she tore at the child in the moment of her pain- the best time to take someone was in that moment. Her eyes were narrowed into a glare as she thrust a hand around the small figure's throat. The child surely fought back, clawing away at the woman. But Kryss' mind registered it then. A child. Her current attacker was only a child. Her hardened expression faltered.
"You're disgusting!" she spat, her words loud and directed toward her primary attacker, Talyc. "Sending a child to do your job. I should kill her!" But even if she was considered a heartless player, taking out men and women as if it were nothing, a child was entirely different. Even if she was being attacked by one, she couldn't bring herself to really fight against a child. "But..." Crap. He'd found a flaw in her.
[I rather hate controling a character not my own. I hope what I did was fine? I wanted to get to a point where Kryss would falter having been faced by Cuyan. x3]