[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/Moq89NM.png[/img][h2][color=gold]Tesni[/color][/h2][/center]

She felt like a vice was squeezing her head, more and more niggling annoyances popped up. First her trying to be nice was construed as bullying, she just gave a nervous girl a soda! How was that mean?! Then what she presumed was another magical girl popped up being deliberately obtuse and using flowery language began talking as if purposefully trying to frustrate Tesni. Tesni’s eyes started to glow with a golden light as her gaze met the moonlight orbs of Roma, while her hand in a claw like grip swiped at the ‘attendant’ closest to her to keep it at away at arm’s length.

[color=gold]“I have this strange feeling that you think I’m an idiot… and you’re not wrong. Not because I can’t think long and hard about something, but because all it ammounts to is coming up with complicated answers to problems with simple solutions. So, listen here little miss enigmatic, I had to do a lot of goddamn research to even try and understand my grimoire a little bit and even then, I now only know enough to say that I barely know anything.[/color] It was an incredibly frustrating feeling, when you're on the edge of a breakthrough, only to realise that you weren't even in the kiddy pool of how deep an ocean the topic you were about to get into was.

[color=gold]"Have you ever read [i]Journey to the West[/i]? It is subtext disguised as an adventure, but from my basic understanding something is crystal clear to me. Everyone is ‘enslaved’ to the ‘wheel of fate’ from the day they are born. The very act of cultivating yourself and gaining enlightenment or the simply striving for the ambiguous concept of ‘power’ is an attempt to throw off the shackles of the mundane and follow the Dao towards some form of immortality.”[/color] Tesni felt her headache lessen as she explained sighing at the relief and felt her will get stronger, knowing that it didn’t matter what she faced, all she could do was tackle it head on.

[color=gold]“Each step along the Way, the Heavenly Dao will place tribulations along the path in an attempt to punish humanity that dares rebel against it. For having the ‘sheer arrogance’ of even attempting to defy what fate it has in store for us. It doesn’t matter if the tribulation is heaven sent like a bolt of lightning to smite me, or if it is mundane in nature like a group with machinations arrayed against me. I will defy fate. I will break my shackles. If I am imprisoned by fate, I will get strong enough to carry my prison with me as I walk along my path. If I fail along the way I cannot curse anything but my own weakness. If the wheel ‘shatters’ me as you say, then I can’t blame the wheel, only that I was fragile enough for it to break me.”[/color] Her eyes darted briefly across the road before coming back to meet Roma’s… then dimmed, not wanting them to sting for no good reason before having the most legitimate grin anyone in the group would have seen on Tesni’s face. Before glancing over at Chinami.

[color=gold]“I also disagree with you, Chinami. Change isn’t something that happens because you want it. Growth isn’t something you can stop. To live is to grow, so as long as we live, we will grow even if only a little, despite fate, or whatever illuminati bullshit you and creepy eye lady are hinting at. At the very least, I know I will. I’ll keep walking my path and live a selfish but fulfilling life. So I guess… I disagree with you both. Simple as that.”[/color] Tesni was in such a good mood she even let Bonnie smack the back of her head, she did tilt her head at just the right moment to make it seem like a very unsatisfying hit though, Tesni wasn’t feeling [i]that[/i] nice.

[color=gold]“Hmmm, I think verbalising my pent-up thoughts and philosophies might just be the best thing for me. I feel so refreshed. Not that I feel particularly ‘obedient’ or anything, but refreshed. And not like my head is gonna split in two from sheer annoyance anymore. Thanks lady, if nothing else you’re a good one to vent at.”[/color] Stretching her arms out, Tesni rotated her shoulders, and an audible popping crack rang out... before Tesni bolted across the road, vaulted over parked taxi and spun kick what looked like a normal young man in a grey hoodie so hard he bounced off the wall he hit before crumpling to the ground, passersby gasping until Tesni rolled him over with her foot then kicked what looked like a gun away from him. Looking over at the group she raised an eyebrow at them, and hoping they understood the silent question of [color=gold]'Isn't this meant to be a patrol?'[/color]