Stone Circle I'm just so alone

thanks for waiting for me! also keeping this vague, so Bo can determine any more injuries for Illidan! <3 edit: he's also still hallucinating Illidan as Caiaphas, hence all the references to "she", "her", and "witch"! :)

he slung like an arrow, target met; the world shifted and tumbled around them. sky to ground, and ground to sky, just like the first, when he had fallen.

only, this time he did not fail.

he somersaulted with the witch until he tasted her blood. copper stained his mouth where he latched and pulled. ripping flesh. tasting blood. his stomach lurched with the need to vomit. he swallowed. bile stung his throat.

and the witch struck out, headless fangs reaching out in blind desperation. merrit ducked, to avoid the strike, but so entangled in their furious fray, he had little space to move, and he felt a searing pain where trained incisors sunk against the weathered fur of his cheeks and upper brow. the air sprayed with a cloud of crimson rain; blood wept along the raven's face.

adrenaline buried the pain. he blinked through the darkened haze of his own lifeblood, and snaked forward again, as a cobra from his hole. half-blind, and guided by instinct. the world, still devoid of any but the witch; his aim, to overpower; his teeth, still seeking the other's bloodied head.