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[color=fff200]Karin Level 6: 55/60[/color] 
Location:  Quarantine Valley
Word Count: short
Points Gained: 1
New EXP Balance--- 
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Karin watched the screen and listened to Jena prattle on, her lip curling indignantly the longer she was forced to endure it. Finally she could suffer it in contemplative silence no longer. Especially when she said she was the only one who could stay afloat, as if she was not the one who brought the flood waters in the first place. 

[color=fff200]Treacherous snake! How dare she?![/color] Anyone standing close enough to Karin would hear her whisper these words through clenched teeth. She had no idea she even said them.

[color=fff200]”Join you? You must be delusional. You have poisoned the commoners you claim to protect for your own gain! Revolution. Hah!”[/color] Karin was a woman of immense privilege herself. And for a long time she abused that power for her own gain, and treated the people beneath her like garbage. It took a long time to crawl out of that hole and she hadn’t done it by herself, and in many ways she still had a long way to go. But if there was one advantage of her shaded past, it was knowing corruption when she saw it.

[color=fff200]”As if Karen Travers and Seiran and [i]yourself[/i] aren't of the same ilk that tyrannize this city. This is little but a glorified military coup. Despots clawing at despots while the innocent suffer. The people of Midgar will only be truly free when they hang the lot of you!”[/color] She shouted, impassioned. [color=fff200]”If we didn’t have better things to attend to, and if I wasn’t so sure you were plunging headlong into your timely demise already, I’d come up there and destroy you all myself.”[/color]

Jena’s callous, desperate arrogance had annoyed Karin greatly. She let out a breath and straightened up her posture, clearing her throat.  Regathering her composure, she turned the next part of her words towards the Seekers. [color=fff200]”We shall remain here, and do what needs to be done; protect the people.”[/color] She said to them with a nod, knowing without a doubt her assertion about the Seekers intentions were true. Never would her noble cohorts align themselves with such a villain. It was a shame that as far as Karin knew, no one with power in the city had good intentions at heart. A great deal of suffering would be yet to come before the citizens reclaimed their agency and took back Midgar for themselves. In order to do that, they needed to be alive, and the Seekers had the strength and skill to do their part in making sure the community survived.