[h2][color=00aeef][b]Marrie Knight[/b][/color][/h2]

Marrie watched in what seemed like slow motion as Oros turned to face her and fired a melody of her own. Regardless of what it was, it meant that Finn would end up getting hurt, despite her efforts. She had been half hoping that Oros would try to deflect it and she'd switch places with her sword, but she didn't expect the pink haired girl to anticipate a feint like that. Surely it would have made more sense to assume she was attacking her, right? 

... Her head hurt, and she found herself standing where Finn had just been. Still, she turned quickly to look at where she had started, only to see as Finn lost his legs. She couldn't react. She couldn't think. She couldn't even move. And that paralysis continued as Oros walked over and asked for a reward for [i]only[/i] taking off [i]one[/i] person's [i]legs[/i].

Marrie's mouth was agape. If she weren't somewhat traumatized by the day, she might have thought that Oros' request was unwarranted. As it was, though, she could see the logic behind it. Holding back when you want to go all out is hard; she wouldn't have been able to hold back against the cultists who slaughtered the homeless people. 

[color=00aeef]"... I don't know how to respond to you. Like, in general. As a concept."[/color] Marrie closed her eyes for an instant, before opening them and looking over the scene that was (now) in front of her. She couldn't see the truck, but she could [i]hear[/i] it, so its tires must be missing. Oros was standing right in front of her, and behind her were the remaining cultists who seemed to be leaving. Leaving? Was she going to let them leave after that? Rage boiled up from her gut before she continued dragging her gaze across the area. There was the boy who had saved her. She had almost forgotten about seeing him losing his lower limbs from all the shock of Oros' comments. And on seeing him laying there all of her anger left her, the void left by it quickly filling with worry. 

Welp, time to be a smartass, she figured as she cast a melody. 

{Bronze Beam - Rain - Stabilize - Heal}

And as the beam fell from the sky towards Finn, she focused on Oros. What kind of thing would someone like her even want? Her mind went blank. After a quick reboot, she tallied the espers who she knew were there. There was herself, Sovereign, that one who was on the roof, and now the boy who had saved her and was (hopefully no longer) bleeding out. If Oros was bothered by the others, but not Marrie, that left three. She hurt one of them, pretty severely, so... That left two and a half out of three, right? [color=00aeef]"Well, you half killed the guy who saved me, but you haven't hurt anyone else, so..."[/color] A pause. [color=00aeef]"I'm not sure what kind of thing you'd want, so I guess it's like a giftcard instead of an actual present sort of situation."[/color]

Then it hit her. Why was she even here? [color=00aeef]"A fourth of the water, maybe? Otherwise I don't have a ton of things to give out, and I'll probably get in trouble for even that, bu-"[/color] The hamster in her mind fell off its wheel, and she was suddenly once again aware that [i]the water wasn't secured yet.[/i] 

Shit. Marrie glanced over her shoulder to see... holy shit where did that mantis thing come from!? Turning back to Oros, she gave a quick request. [color=00aeef]"Quick raincheck, we can figure something out in a bit?"[/color] Then she began to run towards the palemancerguardmantisguy, putting her Instrument in her left hand and pulling out the pistol she was glad to have brought with her with her right.

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19 | Female | Freelancer | Misty Steps
Apexer Predator | Dagger | Physical | Heavenly Chain
Wind-Carved Glacier | Masking 
Step of the Monsoon | Wind | Riding the Currents
After You Get Smacked Up | Gunstock
[Storm (4), Flight (6)] Damage (2), Damage X (6), Slow Fall (4), Blink (4), Transplace (8), Magic Sense (6), Heal (16), Stabilize (0), Portal (8), Rain (2), Bounce (0), If Foe (0) 

DAMAGE: C | SPEED: D | SENTINEL: C | 360

[Bronze Beam - Rain - Stabilize - Heal] = 128

PHYSICAL: E | ARCANE: D | CHAOS: C | 232
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