[center][color=#008b8b][h2]Fionn MacKerracher[/h2][/color][/center]
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As though Fanilly's words had been the cue they'd been waiting for, one of the healers who'd followed up to the scene quickly stepped in, and Fionn handed Amy off as he looked back up, glare focusing on Clarice. [color=#008b8b]"She dragged you over because [i]I[/i] called for it, because there was something important, something lying right in [i]your[/i] specialty. Alette sent you along to [i]help[/i] us, did she not? To [i]work with us?[/i] Is [i]that[/i] the answer you needed repeated to you the entire time we were travelling here?"[/color] He stood, stepping forward quickly where Clarice had shrunk back for the moment.

Better to keep her on the defensive, rather than let her have some opportunity to claw back some shred of dignity. It was ultimately pointless, certainly not the most rational thing, and Fionn [i]knew[/i] that, but between the personal insult of his chosen fight getting ripped from him at the last second, and the far greater travesty of a halfways-honourable duel like that getting cut short by some assassin's trick, his patience to put up with the woman's continual disrespect of Fanilly and his fellow knights was entirely spent.

[color=#008b8b]"Alette might have been willing to put up with you being so thoughtless as to reveal [i]why[/i] the group of you had been at the fort, but I can't imagine she'd put up with this constant insolence. I can't imagine she'll [i]praise[/i] you as soon as any of us tells her how much of a [i]spoiled, whiny, arrogant [b]brat[/b][/i] you've been, no matter how hard you try to [i]make[/i] her. And that's [i]without[/i] even mentioning that you were so impressed with yourself at finding [i]her—"[/i][/color] and he lifted his sword to point back in Veilena's direction, stepping closer still to bear down on the diminutive spellcaster before him—[color=#008b8b]"That if [i]she[/i] hadn't been paying attention, the Boars' ambush damn well could have [i]worked![/i] Is [i]that[/i] what Alette pays you for? To be so convinced of your self-importance that you put everything else at risk? Or do you actually [i]do your job[/i] when you're with her?"[/color]

He let his blade drop, though his furious, unblinking glare was still focused firmly on Clarice's own eyes. [color=#008b8b][i]"That[/i] is what you need to apologize for, Clarice Kastin, all of it. I don't know you well enough yet to decide if you've made a mockery of yourself, but you've certainly made a mockery of the faith Alette placed in you, and have thoroughly disrespected our captain far more times than [i]I[/i] can put up with."[/color]