>>80233312At that, Arthur ceased his efforts at pulling her free. “Hazel, this is getting ridiculous. We’re not going anywhere while you’re wearing that.”
“Just use Excalibird to cut the trees away so I can get through.” She tried to point at the sword by his side, but couldn’t get any farther than his stomach with her crimped limbs.
“Excalibur, Hazel,” Arthur corrected. He looked to the legendary blade sheathed at his side. When he had, against his better judgment, decided to bring with them on this quest in case the extraordinary wolf was resistant to ordinary swords. He never dreamed he’d be using it for this though. “Maybe I should just cut you out of that armor instead.”
“No-no-no-no-no! You promised, Arthur!” Futile attempts to wag her finger at him were made, which only caused her oversized gauntlets to shake.
“You can hardly move!”
“That’s because I’m stuck!” she panted. “I can move just fine otherwise.”
Arthur sighed. As he made ready to pull Excalibur from its scabbard, a thought came to mind. Just a small thought, laughably simple and yet… “I guess it couldn’t hurt.”
“What wouldn’t hurt?” Hazel asked, a bit worried at seeing Arthur’s hand fall away from Excalibur’s hilt.
Without a word, Arthur stepped directly in front of Hazel and put his hands on her breastplate. She would have blushed if he hadn’t given her a strong shove shortly afterwards, sending her toppling from her wooden prison and landing hard on her steel-covered back. “OW!” she yelped.
