The blow rocks the golem - glittering, crystalline green all through, the veins of olivine thick around it, allowing it to move like some fluid, the grinding sound coming from that movement, as it shifts and moves to strike back at Garnet--

Only to whirl as Loki comes at its back, blade as sharp as thought as she strikes, and dodges, and strikes again, blade flickering in and out of sight as she does.