With one hand she pulled the weapon free and turned. With a thrust she slammed the spear into the chest of a ghoul that had leapt for her back. The blade went clean through, bursting out the demon's back in a spray of blood. The spear's shaft snapped in shower of splinters as the ghoul's body crashed into her.
Borne to the ground, Makae squirmed an arm free from the beast as it gasped for its last breaths. It bled over her in its final moments, but still she smashed a mailed first into the creature's face. A fang splintered and a second strike cracked the bone of its cheek. It slumped off the nun, and Makae quickly rolled to the side.
A second spear slammed into the earth where her head had been just heartbeats before.
A ghoul landed beside her, spraying its drool across the forest floo
