Mel blinked. She ducked a punch from the lurk, then smiled at it--and Dawn.
"I got it," she said.
She spun the stake in her hand in that way that slayers had... it must've been part and parcel with the strength and the dexterity. Then she plunged it into the lurk's heart. There was the sound of the demon leaving its body, and then there was a pile of dust.