[url=https://safebooru.org//images/70/ae6975b505c886143755ac75d0c94ae81a75904b.jpg?69402]The bandit girl[/url] was terrified out of her wits. She'd been told that it would be an easy job. No-one would be hurt. No-one would have to die. Her weapons didn't have a drop of blood on them. She'd just joined up with this group, she'd never even killed anyone in her life. It seemed like the gods had chosen to frown upon her, however, and immediately things plummeted lower then the black pit.

"L-look, er, I... I d-don't know okay? I j-just joined up er..." the girl squirmed. Her broken leg hurt so bad. She'd never broken anything before. Was this, too, some kind of punishment from the gods? For what? What did she-okay, sure, being part of a kidnapping attempt was bad, but she didn't think that the intent was to kill her or anything right? Ransom and return home safe, right? Nobles ate up that kind of thing... right? "The boss said we had to do this and we did, o-okay? I b-barely knew him, and he's the dead guy you just got that note from. M-my knife's not even bloody, o-okay? I just thought this would be a ransom, no-one hurt. I d-didn't even fight the guards, I got freaked out! P-please don't cut my head off okay? I l-like my head."

She was babbling nonsense, mostly out of fear.

The moment Tyaethe went for the girl, Fanilly quickly followed. She could not have one of her knights slay a wounded prisoner. Even if she was fairly certain the paladin would not carry out the sordid deed, she still couldn't stand by. If there was the slimmest chance... it seemed Indrau had the same idea, interposing himself between the two. Still, the fact that there remained some remnants of Phoran Cal's rebellion lurking somewhere. But why pursue his daughter? What was the purpose? Was it because of her own intention to take the shard to keep it safe?

"Sir Tyaethe," Fanilly began, her voice level, "Even if she was working with remnants of Cal's Rebellion, we cannot-"

She was interrupted when an arrow struck the Paladin's armor. Before she could even begin to admonish Umbra, Gillian spoke... saying that Tyaethe's death would have been a favor.

For a few moments, the young Captain of the Iron Roses was silent.

"... That's enough!" Fanilly snapped, finally, "What do you think this achieves?! Attacking one another?! Wishing death on one another?! What kind of knights are you?! We are the Iron Roses! We stand for justice, we stand for the defense of the innocent, don't we?!"

Her trembling fist was clutched tightly.

"Attacking one another, wishing death on one another..." The blonde-haired girl could no longer take it, "Why?! This... this infighting can't go on! This girl-"

Fanilly gestured to the wounded bandit, who seized up in fear.

"-Will [i]not[/i] die here, slain while defenseless," she declared. The bandit girl let out a sigh of relief. "And no longer will we attack one another. No longer will we say such terrible things about one another! We are the Iron Roses, and this will carry on [i]no longer[/i]!"

Fanilly lowered her hand, trembling.

For a few moments, Veileena Cal was silent. Then, she folded her arms and let out a sigh.

"How disorganized," she complained, before eyeing the knight who had spoken about her family. "You're an idiot. I'm the only remaining member of my family living anywhere nearby."

Her gaze shifted to a glare at Sult. At least the other sister was holding her back, now.

"... Stop her earlier, next time," she complained once more, though really she hoped there would be no next time. "Just listening to her is embarrassing."

Finally, in spite of all the commotion, Tiral's scrying attempt went off relatively well. The images that were displayed, however, were hazy and difficult to discern. A clearing, some sort of shrine...? The briefest glimpse of a dark, cloaked figure...

The clearing, however, was likely recognizable to at least a few knights. The oldest shrine to Mayon in Thaln, a aged stone structure standing alone... its Reon counterpart stood not far off, positioned in a spot that caught the sunlight just as well as the Mayon shrine caught the moonlight.