Battle was one thing, but person-to-person combat was quite another. Jeanne had never killed a man before. Though she had dodged arrows and such, her preferred means of war-making was planning, inspiring, and praying. So when a woman appeared near the camp and claimed to be a pagan goddess, Jeanne’s method of dealing with her was to denounce her to the troops and demand that she leave.
“Make me, peasant.”
It didn’t take much to goad Jeanne. She never intended to kill the woman, merely inflict a flesh wound and scare her off. However, Jeanne’s paucity in personal combat skills were soon exposed: It was an intens