Soooooo...I may have ran away with that a liiittlee bit :'D Sorrynotsorry, but I figure we could still work it one of two ways there, that A) Ari was ACTUALLY posssessed and forced to attack him, which is not beyond the realm of possibility in a land full of demonic entities, eh? or B) (since you kinda alluded to her clothes changing in his vision) she had a symultaneous vision at the same time where she was forced to kill and attack him and thus only BELIEVES that she did

Also, an honourary canon character appears (well...two, but Khem is well...Khem, as Ashara says XD)! Seemed appropriate to have them suddenly appear, Cheriss probably had a "bad feeling" about things and called in these two as cavalry of sorts? :') what do you think? xD 

Kept Cheriss' part short cause I didn't wanna launch too far into the Soto fight before our duo caught up (plus I wrote....a lot, for the other bit and I didn't wanna spew a text wall at you LOL)