A tense atmosphere

Clara didn’t wait to see what would happen next. She rushed straight at Sylvia, faintly aware that her arm was hurting weirdly, but her adrenaline was too great for her to think anything of the pain right then.

She had taken self-defense classes several times in the past, and although it had been a long time since she took them, those classes came in handy at that moment. Her life, as well as tho