[b][h1][center]Tayla[/center][/h1][/b]
Interactions with [@Fetzen], [@13Org]
[hr]

To Tayla's surprise, the white haired woman began to dash past Tayla, dodging Tayla's attack with a graceful spin. 

Tayla quickly suppressed her surprise. Her opponent was positioning herself behind her! A counterattack was imminent! 

Tayla began to pivot in an attempt to spin on her heels and parry the attack. That was when she noticed two of the three icy blades speeding towards her. Tayla cursed, the sound coming out as an incoherent muffle due to the tufts of cotton in her mouth. Tayla reacted quickly, twirling her left and right blades at the icy blue constructs. It was in that moment that she caught the glint of the white haired woman's blade out of the corner of her eye.

Tayla reacted without thinking. Her Hydraision training kicking in. Tayla applied her object modifying magic to the left sleeve of her outfit. Using the salty taste on her tongue as the magic's conduit, Tayla hardened the left sleeve of her clothing. The woman's rapier slid harmlessly off Tayla's left bicep, avoiding her neck by mere inches neck. At the same time Tayla's two blades connected with the death traps flying towards her, knocking them aside and shattering them in the process. 

The immediate danger may had been averted, yet still Tayla could not spare a second to breath a sigh of relief. That rapier was still dangerously close to Tayla's neck. Tayla need to reassess her opponent, which meant she needed to get some distance between the two of them. 

Not a second after Tayla fended off the woman's attacks, did Tayla sidestep to her right, away from the white haired woman. At the same time, Tayla cut off the magic she used to strengthen her sleeve and redirected it to her shoes. This time, Tayla used the bitter taste in her mouth as the magic's conduit. In the Art of Gustum Hydraision, a bitter taste triggers friction based object modification. Tayla used this to significantly decrease the friction of her shoes, allowing Tayla to use the momentum from her sidestep to slide away from the white hair women.

Tayla pivoted to face her opponent as she glided across the rooftop to a safe distance, locking eyes with the woman as she did so. She saw in those eyes a delicate yet cold and calculative warrior, rapier raised and at the ready. The woman breathed out a misty vapor, likely a due to a side effect of the woman's magic. The effect only added to perfect pristine image the white haired women held. 

Tayla curled her lip up into a sneer as she slid away from the perfectly pictured woman. The woman's contempt for Tayla was crystal clear. That dirty bitch thought she was better than Tayla! The realization made Tayla's blood boil. 

Tayla gradually reduced the magic's effects on her shoes, in order to prevent a sudden stop caused by the friction between her shoes and the ground returning too quickly. As she slid to a stop, Tayla's backup jumped in. Smit, a trained magic deterrent user. 

Smit started with the basics. Tossing vials full of concentrated skunk spray onto the ground in front of the white haired woman. Tayla hated the stuff, but she could put up with it. 

Tayla spent most of her late teens begging in the filth ridden streets that made up the slums of the city of Manibae. During the winters she would huddle away among the garbage in the tunnels which made up the city sewers. Her rags far too thin to shield her from the cold. Tayla was no stranger to unpleasant smells. But, that didn't mean she enjoyed them.

As the vials smashed onto the ground releasing their contents, Smit then drew two throwing knives and threw them at the woman. One knife coated in a Liquid Ageusia, the other coated in numbing oil. He followed up by throwing two other knifes at the woman hoping to nail some hits in.

Tayla let Smit do his thing as she assessed her companions. The giant had kill one of her non-special squad mates already, and was in the process of killing her squad's only other magic user. Tayla twitched her eye in annoyance.

Sheathing her left blade, Tayla grabbed a handful of coins from her money pouch. She then threw the coins at the giant. Using the taste from the sour cotton tuft as her magic's conduit, Tayla applied her hydraision magic to the coins. The magic increased the coins' momentum to frightening speeds the moment they left Tayla's hand. The coins sped towards the giant man. 

Tayla didn't watch to see what happened. Instead she grabbed a few more coins from her pouch and turned a cold eye back towards the white haired woman. Tayla sneered at the woman who was so obviously privileged in life. Tayla would beat that overbearing attitude out the woman and reveal to the woman which of them really was the real piece of trash here.