While the creature succeeded in restraining the arm with her knife, Ruby could feel what was happening next, so she released it from the headlock, and kicked it in the side with her free leg, her knee driving sideways into its ribs. Moving her arm away from the beast's attempts to grab it, she didn't get away entirely. Her palm was cut open from the beast's claws, but she didn't have time to think about that. Just because the thing was pushing down on her chest, didn't  mean she couldn't move. She was flexible, and the creature was covered in a mixture of blood and mucus, so she slid out from under it's hand, despite it pressing down. It's own nature worked against it, there. And then it started sobbing. Oooookay? Ruby didn't know how to respond to that. Maybe this thing was sane at one point? She didn't really care, as the thing was FUCKING TRYING TO EAT HER ALIVE. Pulling her [i]bo[/i] out, she shoved the telescoping staff towards the creature's bloody maw, and shifted her body to the side, attempting to make it unable to move any closer without impaling itself in the brain stem with the blunt object.