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[color=7DBC89]Race:[/color] Yuan-ti 
[color=7DBC89]Class:[/color] Rogue Arcane Assassin
[color=7DBC89]Location:[/color] The enchanting bathroom
[color=7DBC89]Interactions:[/color] [@princess] Phia [@Oso] Talis 
[color=7DBC89]Mentions:[/color] 
[color=7DBC89]Equipment:[/color]  [hider=Full Equipment List]🌸 A finely crafted katana
 🌸 A concealed dagger laced with paralytic venom
 🌸 Throwing needles coated with different poisons
 🌸 Black silk combat outfit reinforced with hidden Mithril chainmail
 🌸 Soft-soled boots that allow for near-silent movement
 🌸 Smoke bombs and illusion charms for quick escapes
 🌸 A set of forged documents under multiple aliases
 🌸 A tea set and an assortment of teas
 🌸 Incense[/hider]
[color=7DBC89]Attire:[/color] 
[color=7DBC89]Gold Balance:[/color] 93
[color=7DBC89]Injuries:[/color] None currently, but has numerous faded scars on her body

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The moment her fingers touched the crystal, Meiyu felt the world stutter.

The pulse of light wasn't just seen–it was felt, like a scream in her blood, like silk being torn through her bones. For a heartbeat, she was no longer kneeling in a broken, blood-drenched bathroom. She was everywhere. A million stars blinked behind her eyes and a great weightless silence stretched on for what felt like a breath and a lifetime.

Then came the shatter.

The sound was not a sound at all, but the memory of thunder. Of something ancient and echoing, vibrating through marrow. The fragments spiraled, luminous, seeking. Choosing.

She did not brace. She did not flinch.

One found her.

It moved like it had always known her shape, always known where to go.

The shard struck her just beneath the line of her sternum, embedding itself just where breath met power–center mass, where a blade might strike for death, or divinity. Her body bowed with the impact, lips parting soundlessly as ancient light spilled into her veins like liquid judgment.

It did not burn.

It thrummed. It was a resonance like a serpent's call, a war drum played underwater, and something... older. Her limbs trembled, spine arching faintly as the crystal melted through muscle and bone, then pulsed once beneath the skin like a heartbeat she hadn’t known she was missing.

When it ended, she exhaled a slow hiss through her teeth.

Meiyu's hands moved to her waist, unfastening the front of her robe with slow, practiced grace. She peeled the silk aside until pale skin was exposed to the air, and there, nestled in the dip beneath her ribs, the crystal shimmered: jagged, half-sunken, glowing with a quiet blue-green light. A shard of something ancient, pulsing where breath and purpose met.

She studied it in the fractured reflection of a broken mirror, tilting her head.

Then she smiled faintly.

[color=7DBC89]”Cheeky little thing.”[/color]

Footsteps echoed behind her.

Meiyu didn’t look away as Bastion stepped into the wreckage. She could hear his footsteps hesitate, feel the way his presence filled the broken air. She didn’t move when he approached Phia. Only when he bent to take the girl into his arms did she finally speak.

[color=7DBC89]“That girl's heart nearly shattered with her ribs,”[/color] she said, cool and even. [color=7DBC89]“Mind how you carry what's left.”[/color]

A breath passed.

Her eyes flicked toward the place where Talis had fallen, her voice softening just slightly. [color=7DBC89]“The girl was clever. She hid this crystal before the assassin could take it… said it should choose for itself. And apparently it did.”[/color]

She rose then, slow and composed, as she glanced to Bastion and gestured to her crystal and then his.

[color=7DBC89]“There was nothing more we could’ve done. We tried. That girl fought like a storm. And the redhead… she was braver than I expected.”[/color] Her voice dropped just slightly, but never lost its precision. [color=7DBC89]“They both paid dearly for it.”[/color]

Then her gaze lifted again to Bastion, her eyes sharp as ever despite the crystal now burning softly at her core.

[color=7DBC89]“Now we figure out what the hell she died for.”[/color]

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