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[center][h3][color=beaccb]Alexi, Knight of Winter[/color][/h3][/center]

[color=beaccb]"You honor me with your attention. The whispers are quieted simply by your presence. I wonder if they are eager or afraid? Usually both..."[/color] Alexi's disposition had instantly changed when Ira touched down. Rising from the now barren pool, Alexi's eyes focused upon her opponent. As Alexi raised her blade over her head, an overhead aggressive power stance, the rain of water slowed, matching Ira's walking pace. To one gifted with vision into the underwriting laws of reality, one could see that the very maximum speed of the universe was slowing around them. To one gifted with vision into the flows of time, one could see that Alexi's personal time was "freezing", the flow being blocked up.

Her bare foot played across the surface of the pond, dragging across a tiny puddle of water not raised into the air, before pressing down into the earth in firm footing. [color=beaccb]"I am Alexi, Knight of Winter."[/color] Her stance would provide no protection from an upward slash from a drawn blade, as Ira's might be, but at the same time, a sheathed blade was ill equipped to handle an overhead strike as Alexi was poised to do. It was as if Alexi was challenging Ira to a sword duel of a single strike.

There was little more to say as a warrior.

[@TheWindel]