With her kick landing Marian had a chance to capitalize. She attempted to drive her peg even deeper into the knight's knee and then yank backwards, trying to just outright separate the thing's lower leg from its body. See, by her reckoning even if it could keep going after an injury that catastrophic, dragging itself would be too slow and hopping would look too silly for it to stay scary!
With her kick landing Marian had a chance to capitalize. She attempted to drive her peg even deeper into the knight's knee and then yank backwards, trying to just outright separate the thing's lower leg from its body. See, by her reckoning even if it could keep going after an injury that catastrophic, dragging itself would be too slow and hopping would look too silly for it to stay scary!