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[b][u]POV:[/u] Shiara Isolt // Isoltos
[sub]Dhadan Forest, County of Dunric[/sub][/b]

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“I do.” Shiara replied her fists clenching as she did so.

In all of her life, she had never had choice— not now, and not ever. The thoughts of a life where Azarni’s words were true was idyllic and wonderful. The day she could rest in peace without the choke of a chain or threat was a dream she wished someone could have. But if it was obtainable it was not so today and she knew that so very well no matter what her soul yearned for. 

“I can’t.” She added, her voice slipping from monotone into sorrowful manner for a brief moment.

This position was familiar to her— facing down an inexperienced opponent in a high stakes arena. Sure, the appearance may have been different and her goal was to capture and not to kill… but it was very much alike. The stone and metal walls, the cheer of a bloodthirsty crowd, and the preparation of battle may have been absent but there was still the same hopelessness, the same stakes, the same choiceless ruin. Had Shiara not been conditioned after all her years of experience she may have cried not only for the fight but for her [i]soul[/i]. A scared girl’s cry shivered in her mind.

	[i]I’m sorry. Gods forgive me.[/i]

Her mind cried out, the words possibly reaching the psion despite it not being the desired intention.

[color=silver]	[i]“Show me why they call you the Maiden of the Red Sands, girl.”[/i][/color]

The ground underneath Shiara cracked as she bolted for her enemy—keeping her eye out for any motion of psionic attacks as she closed the distance between the two before sending out a flurry of punches forward towards her opponent. Whilst her intention was to capture and not to kill, that didn’t mean that Shiara was going to perform lightly— her skillset was not one of delicacy and The Order had recruited her for this fact. Azarni may have been a psion, but she was not immune to blunt force trauma. A fact if she was not prepared to dodge she would learn would be a mistake.