[h2]Shi, the Quiet Killer[/h2]

[i]Click[/i]

The pure white girl loaded her rifle carefully. The magazine slid in smoothly after the click, and there was a second click announcing that it was now in place. Her crimson eyes checked for any errors, and found there was none. She had to keep the barrel of the rifle resting on the ground, for its immense size was unwieldy otherwise. She had to kill someone tonight. At the very least, she had to open fire. She didn't want to fail [i]her[/i]... and the darker reason was that she was scared of what the others would do if she did not make any progress. What Soran would do to her.

Two struts held the rifle up as Shi laid flat on her stomach, leaning her head to the side to look through the scope as she did. A few adjustments were required, but soon the homunculus had a clear view of the world beneath her. The scope, custom-built specifically for her just as the rest of the rifle was, possessed excellent capabilities in terms of viewing things in the distance, and at night. This was likely due to the series of spells etched on its interior that allowed for it to pierce darkness quite easily. Two scenes were immediately visible in the dark. A young girl, difficult to see from her angle behind an older... was that the older girl who she had met earlier? She was still out...

Dismissing this quickly and writing off attempting to identify  the child(there was a child mage participating, she knew as much, but she could not get a clear angle to confirm her identity based on the information she had been given), Shi shifted her viewpoint.

... There.

A woman, her arms looking unusual and hanging limp through the magical filter on Shi's scope. Zooming in, Shi steadily became more and more certain that this woman was one of her targets.

She was about to pull the trigger, when someone else entered her view. This one she did not recognize. Her finger left her trigger slowly. Shi had to wait. Simply firing when there could be a witness... She was ordered only to fire upon confirmed magi and participants. ... Though... she was also ordered to eliminate witnesses... but wasn't it better not to create them?