[h1][b][i][color=A2797E][center]Sabine Bassard[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h1][center][img]https://media.tenor.com/GQqZH99lAzAAAAAM/ester-exp%C3%B3sito-carla.gif[/img][/center][center][/center][hr][center] [/center] Sabine had backed up to get some distance from the onslaught. Some of the Hex Girls hit hard and she didn't want to be near any of them if it could be helped. She was not a front fighter, she did her best work from in the back. She felt her connection to Dorian still up, hoping he would use it to their advantage. Sabine's attention was momentarily distracted seeing their names up above. Perhaps there was someone in the audience for her. Someone else had taken it upon themselves to hype up the Hex Girls also. In that moment, Sabine felt someone watching her. Rather, someone with intent watching her. Before she could move a telekinetic barrier surrounded her. Sabine glanced around and her eyes landed on another figure. This one was a powerhouse by the looks of things. And she was inside the barrier with her. The two of them. Fuck. Sabine had been unprotected and part of that was her own doing. She needed to do something and fast. If she couldn't attack the barrier itself, she would have to stop her opponent. And the best way she knew how was to mess with her head. Literally. Before she could, the woman, Tatiana, chastised her regarding Thuy's affection. [color=A2797E]"Then you can send her a message for me when I kick your ass. I am #NotInterested."[/color] What happened next was quite the feat. She noticed outside of the barrier that April had attempted to attack the barrier with ice. It looked impressive and powerful. Again, her heart leapt at April trying to help her, to come to her defense. But the barrier remained. Sabine winced, knowing Tatiana was getting ever closer to knocking her down. Sabine had a thought: perhaps she could get Tatiana to help her out. She normally would hate controlling another person, especially after the previous night, but she was in a competition and enemies before her would not treat her like a child in the future. She crecked her neck and prepared to unleash a command when the barrier clicked and dissipated. Sabine looked over at Prudence and saw that the team had stunned her. The enemy's powerful telekinetic was out for now. Which meant their minds would be exposed. [color=A2797E]"Time to waste a memory."[/color] Sabine stood her ground and sent her telekinetic link into Tatiana's mind. She wanted to find a nearby memory and she had one in particular. She wanted to see if she could eavesdrop on a strategy section and erase it. If one of hteir heavy hitters couldn't remember what the plan was, it left her vulnerable. Sabine saw one she liked and entered it. [hider=Tatiana's Memory][i]The room was suffocating. A haze of sandal wood, white and blue sage, lavender, frankincense, and eucalyptus blurred together on the cedar burner hanging from the ceiling. She took a deep breath of the familiar concoction, the burn of herbs and magic familiar and settling. She swayed as the door slid shut behind her, all but the queen bee at least acknowledging her with a glance if not a wave. Thelma didn’t turn from the board the spelled chalk scribbled on. “Aye, she made it!” Wil cheered, two taps of a fist as Tatiana sauntered by with files in hand. Ava didn’t bother moving from where her head lay in Wil’s lap, eyes half closed as Wil’s other hand soothed its way through shimmering hair, but offered up a lazy wave instead. Tatiana snorted in amusement at the lazy lovebirds. “Taaaati, homegirl, you got the good from Ms. H? Gimme.” Thuy demanded, a half empty bottle swaying in one hand as she lounged in a comfortable arm chair. She reached out with her other hand, barely moving with one leg thrown up over an arm and her head resting on the other, but hissed as Skyler pulled none too gently on the hair he was braiding. “You know the Queen gets everything first. Don’t forget the last time you stepped out of line.” Skyler reminded her, eyeing the still healing cuts along Thuy’s legs. Thuy made a distinctly unimpressed noise and subtly shifted her hanging leg out of sight. Tatiana struggled to be sympathetic; Thuy’s mistake nearly killed her and even her magic wasn’t enough to outrun whatever lived in that psychopath. In Tati's opinion, Thelma was a damn saint for letting Thuy stay on the team after that stunt. “Well, don’t be a bitch next time and maybe you won’t get treated like one.” Tati passed the papers into Thelma’s waiting hand and stashed herself into a seat next to Prue, who was writing whatever depressing shit emo bitches wrote these days. She kicked her feet up in Prue’s lap, stared the psychic down until she turned back to her writing, and settled into listening to whatever plan the Queen Bee came up with. “I’ll review what Agatha provided on Excelisor, but I doubt it’s anything substantial.” Thelma finally spoke, her voice hoarse and rough like it had been weeks since she last spoke. “Our plan remains unchanged. Establish defensive priority through chaotic target acquisition, buckle under their primary assault, eliminate their defensive strongholds once they press their advantage, eliminate their offensive primaries, and force the manipulators to exhaust themselves. Everyone here knows their part of the plan - Tatiana, their uncertainty will have them scatter initially. Find the weakest one that steps out of line and crush them once they’ve isolated themselves.” “Feelin’ nice today, huh? Letting me break bicthes in with the good ole one, two punch.” Tatiana laughed. Tatiana fished out a small, green purple candy and held it up. Thelma stared at her blankly while Tatiana rolled it around in her hand. “We doing this?” Out of the corner of Tatiana’s eye, the disapproving look on Wil’s face didn’t disappear quite quickly enough and Tatiana took note of the hands covering Ava’s ears. “If you must.” Thelma replied and turned back to her board.[/i][/hider] Sabine had lots of questions now, but no time to process what she saw before she erased the memory in its entirety. She returned back to her mind and quickly made a beeline for Leah. She needed to be near someone who could stand their ground and protect her. [color=A2797E]"Hey, mind if I keep you company? I can't be out in the open. I saw a memory of their strategy. Tatiana is going after the weakest, which would be me. The rest are either targeting the defensive or going after the offensive. Agatha told them information about us."[/color] Sabine left it there, but there was more. Something else was bothering her. While finding out information on your enemies wasn't agaisnt the rules as long as you did so legally (she would have to talk to Agatha), what was that candy she saw? It gnawed at her. So she sent out a quick thought to the one person she knew would hear her. [color=A2797E][i]"Vicky, I know you can hear me. I saw a memory of the Hex Girl's strategizing and something in it bothered me. One of them held a small greenish, purpleish piece of I assume candy. I think there's more going on here, but I am obviously not capable of finding out much. Can you see if you can figure out what that might be?"[/i][/color] [hider=Round 1]Sabine: [list][*]Health: 30 [*]Focus: 70 [*]Karma: 1 [*]Notes - [list] [*]As an action, Sabine uses Edit Memory on Tatiana, costing 15 Focus [*]Sabine rolls a 5, 3, and 1. Logic adds +3 for a total of 12, resulting in the memory being erased [*]Sabine used Perception skill to spot details of memory. Sabine rolls a 6, 3, and 1 +3 for Logic for total of 13 [*]Sabine spends 1 Karma to reroll the one. The new roll is a 5 for a total of 17 [*]Sabine can recall details of the chosen erased memory [*]Movement - [list] [*]Sabine moves towards tLeah and stands with her[/list][/list][/list][/hider]