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Maria Turov quickly rinsed shampoo from her eyes as soon as she heard the commotion break out at the other end of the shower room. She looked over and saw two women furiously kicking at a third, who was curled into a ball on the floor to shield her stomach and chest from the worst of the blows. Angry screams of "bitch," "traitor," and worse names were shouted by the two assailants as the woman on the floor screamed out for mercy. By then, the other women in the room had all turned to see what the commotion was all about.
Within a few seconds, Maria recognized one of the two attackers as Karina Pavolva, the rebel who had remained silent for so long while interrogator Boris Titovsky applied brutal electric shocks to Maria's most sensitive areas. Whoever the woman on the floor was, she was clearly an enemy of Karina's; that was cause enough for Maria to help out.
Maria approached the two women from behind as they continued their assault. Neither had seen her coming when she grabbed the fatter one by her crudely-cropped hair and slammed the side of her head as hard as she could into the hard concrete wall. She let out a yelp and slid down the wall, collapsing on the floor. Karina quickly turned around and her eyes bulged wide as soon as she recognized the woman who had entered the fray.
"This is none of your business, whore," Karina started to growl before Maria's fist slammed into her cheek just below the left eye. She stumbled backwards and tripped over the woman who was still curled into a ball, and fell on the floor. She took the impact on her upper back, grimaced, and struggled to her feet -- a challenge considering how slippery the still-falling water had made both her skin and the floor. As she started to rise, a kick in the jaw from Maria sent her reeling back to the ground, where she groaned and cradled her face with her left hand.
The fatter one had managed to get up on her knees, and before Maria could knock her down again she wrapped her arms around Maria's right leg and sunk her teeth into Maria's thigh. Blood streamed from the wound as Maria tried to shake the woman off her leg, but she stubbornly refused to let go with either her arms or her jaw. Maria tried pounding the top of the fat girl's head, but was unable to get at her from a good enough angle to make her relent.
While Maria screamed in pain and frustration, the woman who had been curled up on the floor crawled on her hands and knees over to the entangled duo, and put her hands around the fat one's throat. After she dug in tightly with her fingers, the girl released her grip from Maria's leg and tried to get the other woman off of her neck.
Sensing victory, Maria walked over to Karina, who was once again trying to get to her feet, intent on knocking her down for good. As Maria approached, Karina's eyes grew wide.
It wasn't until a few seconds later when the baton cracked down between her shoulder blades that Maria realized Karina's panicked expression was actually due to the half-dozen guards who had rushed into the shower rooms.
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