Neverwinter Forest entropy

The panther's laughter came out choked and breathless as they chased each other about with their sticks, sometimes freezing to engage in a brief stare-down. Dark tail wheeling, he made every effort to smack her with the thin, brushy end of his stick.

"It's over, Tulugak," he called during a brief reprieve where they stood apart, Dutch having been chased halfway up a hill. "I have the high ground!

But he could hardly defeat her with a stick. He was prepared instead to "go down fighting" in order to preserve the drama of their fight. Otherwise, they might forever remain at an impasse, or else find a way to bleed each other to death via ten-thousand swishy stick scratches.

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