Shadow fight

Freya stood in the alleyway, watching the men approach her, makeshift clubs and blades in their hands, herself unarmed and with little to protect herself. They had made it apparent what they wanted from her - her money and her body, in no particular order. And if they had to take her life as well in order to garner access to those, well, so be it. They weren't above a little old thing like murder.

It was late in the afternoon, and most people were on their way home from work, clogging the streets but leaving the sidewalks and backroads empty. Freya had backed herself into a corner, with nowhere to go and no one to call to for help. Under cover of darkness she might have been able to make an escape, but her shadow was long and easy to spot well after the rest of her had disappeared around a corner. Damned thing had gotten her caught yet again.

The intent in the men's eyes was clear as they drew ever closer. She could see her own shadow begin to crawl up one of their legs they were so close. The thing had gotten her into this mess - it was about time it got her out of it.

The man dropped with a shout of surprise, the wound in his leg obvious, though its origin was unclear. The pain that shot through him caught him off guard and had sent him tumbling to the ground, which had caught the others off guard as well, making them pull their attention away from Freya. With quick strikes, her shadow lashed out at them from their friends body, staggering them and pulling them to its level so it could claw at their eyes and throats. The black figure was incorporeal, yet as it dragged across their bodies it tore and shredded their skin, mortally wounding them, blinding them, all without a trace of what had hurt them.

Freya bolted over their crumpled bodies, vaulting over them so as not to leave a mark of her own on them. When they were found by the police, likely in only a few short hours, they would likely be already dead. Even if they weren't, no one would believe that a person's shadow had assaulted them and done what it had. And no amount of scientific and medical testing would corroborate with their stories, or given any evidence that Freya had even been there at all.