She's in a subway train, somewhere. She's the only one there, and it's moving much faster than it should be. It's night, and she's sure there's something she should be worrying about, but she can't quite recall what.

Panicking is not fun, but it's obviously because the train is moving too quickly, right? So it's totally justified.

Where is everybody? Probably not important.

She quickly looks around for more information.

There's noth—oh, look, she's holding a wooden stake.

... And is this rather surprising, as she would typically be inclined to feel were she found on a subway train with a wooden stake? Or is this only mildly curious, as it might be if this were a dream and she weren't quite feeling like her awake self?

Neither—the stake feels at home in her hand, as if she's used it many times. It's familiar, almost, a close friend.

She has very little time to ponder the philosophical ramifications of this as a platinum-blond man in a sleeveless leather top wearing eyeliner swings a metal bar at her.

She tries to dodge out of the way of the metal bar – doubting that she'll really succeed – then considers shouting, 'What the fuck, dude?' but feels like it would somehow be wrong.

Especially since she's holding a wooden stake.

If she gets knocked over by the attack, she'll try to quickly get up again, but after that she'll try to swipe at him with the weapon.

Nope, she dodges! She has quite some skill with dodging, it would appear, who'da thunk. The 'dude,' however, swings again, apparently not even caring about the wooden stake.

(...he looks so stakeable. She could just... drive it through his heart. It's right there, she even knows how to do it, she should just stake-and-pull, otherwise the stake will be destroyed...)

You know what, she could drive the stake through his heart.

He's even attacking her, randomly, on a weird subway train, with a metal bar. And the stake feels right.

So you know what she does?

She attacks him and tries to drive the stake through his heart.

Ha, as if. He dodges it deftly, taking a step back and dropping to the floor, twisting in the air so he falls on his hands and wrapping his legs around hers as he does so to make her fall.

Caught off-guard, she does indeed fall, but she twists around to try to get to a position so she can stab him anyway. Doesn't have to be through his heart to hurt him.

It will be hard for her to do that because he gets to his feet before she can do it and parries her with the metal bar. Without missing a beat, he hits her hand with it, trying to knock the stake away.

Well, the stake seems important, so she grips onto it hard and tries to move her hand away, or at least so as to lessen the impact.

Well, that means the impact isn't as strong as it could've been, but it also means she has much less room to brace for the kick aimed at her midsection.

Which is pretty dangerous, so she tries to curl up before he hits her. If she's not too badly injured by the attack, she'll try to kick him and then spring back up onto her feet. Being on the ground is not a very defensible position.

She's actually fairly undamaged! That hurt a lot, but not as much as she'd normally expect it to. He jumps out of the way of her kick, but that does give her time to spring back up onto her feet, especially with all this agility and dexterity she suddenly has.

This agility and dexterity is nice, but her goal here is to get rid of this dude, so it is not something she's going to focus much on right now.

She tries to get an idea of her surrounding, to see how she might use them to her advantage, and she'd like to study her opponent to see if there's anything she can work out about him that might be helpful, but unfortunately this is probably a bit too close-quarters for that.

She'll also try to slice him with the stake again, unless he attacks her first. It seems pretty pointy, so it should do some damage.

The man closes in and—lets himself be sliced, his shirt being ripped a bit and some blood (not enough blood) welling from the wound. Then, he tries to wrench the stake from her hand, hoping his masochistic move threw her off-balance enough for him to catch an opening and succeed.

It threw her a bit, but she already expected him to be somewhat careless about some... non-standard things. She didn't loosen her grip on the stake, so he might be caught off-balance there, and she swings at him with her other hand.

The punch connects, and she's also much stronger than she'd thought. He's sent flying.

Well, that's rather surprising.

Fortunate, though.

She runs after him and tries to get on top of him while he's on the floor, so that she can stab him more easily.

He rolls out of the way and back to his feet, trying to use his momentum to hit the back of Eva's knees with the metal bar.

But she has agility, so she can just try to get out of the way and jump-kick him, right?

She can try, and she'll fail, but more because he's pretty good than because she's pretty bad. Except as he dodges the kick he angles the metal bar under her feet so she'll land on it and lose her balance again.

She puts a hand out to catch herself as she starts to fall to the ground, then tries to kick out his legs when she lands.