[color=yellow]"So you start a fight and when you find yourself outmatched you try to bring the fight in your own odds? Are you a fool? Is it just an act or are you just that dim?"[/color] Chloetta had to ask. Really.  For a tactician he made several blunders.  Really though. . . This is what the Church was afraid of this? This was the Chosen Champion?  Perhaps Bern was right about this specific case in taking him in for execution. . . Still, with a little bit of thinking. . . She could use this fool to her advantage.  These mercenaries of hers were loyal to the money. . . Something she didn't have.  If she didn't have them, she didn't have a military force.  Perhaps she could use this fool. . . And his forces. . . to fight Bern.  Weaken both sides, then, well, figure the rest out later.

He couldn't possibly know what she was thinking.  Still, she needed him to think she was serious about killing him . . . Still, he presented her with quite the opportunity.  [color=yellow]"Very well.  I shall fight this duel with you.  Just know that if you lose, your entire party will be hunted down and slaughtered."[/color]  Of course, that would now be the worst possible outcome.  For now she needed to achieve her new personal goal.  The "Light Prodigy" drew out her spellbook and cast a bolt of lightning at the ground directly in front of Matthew as she prodded her horse slightly forward.  [color=yellow]"Come at me when you're ready, foolish Ylissean."[/color]