[i]"Ain't no love, like a real love,"[/i] murmured Countess Keron, the quiet warm up to a song.
[i]"But it goes so fast
All tied up like a captive
I'm on to you"[/i]

She raises her hands over her head, power rippling and charging around them. Perhaps once these lightning claws might have been Burrower technology but this is sunlight that pours through them now. For a moment the wind catches her and she looks like an angel even in the midst of armour from hell. Her voice rises into full music, ringing out across the arena like a prayer.

[i]"Used up eight of my nine lives
Standing on rainbows, playing it cool
I haven't felt this in ages
I have no more patience
So won't you please -"[/i]

She has a story too, after all. She didn't get to be a Countess just by being a particularly good dom. She has her own art, her own vision, her own fighting style. And it's time for her to show it. And then her hands come down and sweep across, like a conductor. Each slash and strike into the air matched with technicolour blasts of magical energy. It's a hurricane of power, music manifesting as light and fire. The storm builds and builds as her music crescendos. [i]A little faster, Chen. A little prouder! If you want to dance with me then I will make you show every fragment of your hidden potential as my price.[/i]

And then the storm stops and you'll have a second to react as suddenly that naginata is cutting through the air. She's a dervish with distance, controlling you with distance by adjusting her grip. In moments her dance changes and she's engaging Tianic, who was drawn in by the rhythm, and then she's blade to blade with Yue, and then whirling around to clash with Chen again.

[i]How much do you really want it?[/i] she asks with each strike, each flex, each time her gauntlet lashes out to catch your sword in its grip. [i]Do you really believe you deserve it?[/i] This is an interrogation in blade and fire, any lie or flaw or weakness placed under the burning spotlight of her vision. [i]Is this the day that you defeat me?[/i] She does not ask with such fervor of blade because she needs to defend her crown. She asks because unless you're [i]sure[/i] you want this win she has more to offer you in your defeat.