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After Lily and Lian passed out again Kat couldn't find a reason to stay awake herself. ng was drinking water more as a way to pass the ti then anything else and Kat didn't particularly feel like practicing and risking the chance she freaked ng out with one of her abilities. Kat didn't fear ng at this point, and even if she was attacked, Kat was all but certain she could survive it.
That's why, when she heard the grinding of tal on stone, Kat freaked out a little bit as she woke up, flas flaring to life until she realised it was just the door to the vault opening. ng was watching with so interest regarding the identity of the door opening. It was still quite early on and the fact soone had managed to attune sothing in less then a day was impressive apparently.
So when the person who showed up was Voldar, ng just sort of reacted. In a blink, Voldar was on the floor unconscious and Kat hadn't made a move to help him. A quick glance inside the vault revealed three ditating figures surrounded by cocoons of light Kat could easily see through with her eyes. ng closed the door again and dragged Voldar off to the side before Kat realised that she should probably say sothing, "So… um… what did you do to Voldar?"
"Oh I just knocked him out," said ng as she dumped the dwarf in a corner. "I don't know how he managed to finish first though… must have so sort of artifact related bloodline or sothing. I picked sothing that was sowhat incompatible with him so the fact that he finished first is truly a surprise,"
"Well why did you knock him out?" asked Kat.
ng shrugged, "I had a mont of panic, then decided that I just didn't want to deal with it. The truth of the matter is, with all the nonsense that we're about to be involved in? Voldar's death would be a minor inconvenience at best. Really, the only reason he lives is because I rembered that killing my problems isn't the first option, and that you would likely be displeased with my casual disregard for life…"
Kat felt her lips pull into a thin line for a few seconds before exhaling, "I feel like I should criticise so part of that thought process but if I'm not thinking emotionally, I cannot find anything wrong with what you just said. It's all factual statents, and I really shouldn't get mad at the child assassin for thinking killing is a good solution to her problems,"
"I haven't been a child in m-centuries," said ng as she crossed her hands under her breasts to make them look slightly more prominent, "I don't feel like calling a 'child assassin' is a particularly accurate title,"
Kat shrugged and said, "I'm more concerned with the fact that you were raised as a child assassin then that you aren't technically one anymore, only by virtue of the fact you are no longer a child, not that you are no longer an assassin. I feel like that chain of logic demonstrates my problems. You were trained in such a way that killing people looks like a really easy way to solve your problems, and your morals either never existed, or were trained out of you so there's not reason for to try and bring them up. Honestly, it's more sad then anything else,"
"I don't need your putting," huffed ng.
"Eh, perhaps you don't NEED it know, but I believe you might already have it. It's an emotional response ng, not sothing I can really control. Still, what we should be addressing is the plan for dealing with Voldar. We can't just leave him unconscious forever," said Kat.
"I would like to interject and say that as a Rank 4 master of illusions I CAN in fact keep him unconscious forever, or at least, so long that he'd die of old age before the spell ran out," said ng as she gave Voldar a few light kicks to prove a point. Kat just glared at her for a few monts.
"Right…" mumbled Kat. "Well… what IS the plan with him then?"
"h, probably to just leave him unconscious in town sowhere? I don't really care Kat. He isn't important to , he isn't important to my bosses, his backing is weak, and leaving him alive is barely an inconvenience. I have about as much care for him as I would a random sack of potatoes, except the potatoes can be put into a storage ring. You can deal with him however you want," said ng
*Guess I need to figure sothing out then. Dropping him off sowhere randomly in town isn't horrible per say… I'm just not sure how I could do that and keep him reasonably safe. Perhaps leave that to Hromdir? Have ng wake the guy before I leave? No that might take discussion ti, discussion ti ng isn't likely willing to waste once Bing and Feng are awake and it's ti to get moving.*
Kat shrugged that off, and checked her connection to Lily, but found the mphis was still asleep. Kat wasn't surprised but that turn of events, but now that she was awake, Kat didn't feel tired at all and simply ditating didn't seem all that entertaining. So with a sigh Kat started to do so katas with her fans out. "Oooh, fans, I trained with those for a while. I can give you a decent spar with my own set if you want?" offered ng.
"Really? That would be quite nice… actually… is there space here for it?" Kat said, trailing off at the end as she took in just how small the room is.
ng just shrugged, "Eh, it's not a tonne of space but all the fans I have on a diocre quality at best so we couldn't have a full powered spar anyway. If we did my weapons would shatter before either of us got close to our full speed. My fans are rated for Rank 3 cultivators at best, and fighting a demon as a Rank 4? It's not sothing they could stand up to. Not even if I had kept them better maintained, which I haven't"
"Why not?" asked Kat as she took a stance and brought her fans up by her face.
"Because I need weapons with history when I'm pretending to be soone else," said ng easily. "If I had the ability to properly care for my weapons, then I'd be more of a threat. However, diocre repair and maintenance on old equipnt makes look like a cultivator from a mortal family using heirloom weapons, or perhaps I stole them with no idea how to care for them properly. I also don't know how to use fans to the sa level as so of my preferred weapons, so I can't go for 'fan prodigy' with them."
Kat flicked open her fans and world in, trying to get a slice on ng's fingers, but ng just bashed Kat's fans away easily, "First rule when duelling a fan user, keep your fans closed. Leaving them open makes them too easy a target, and keeping them as more solid blocks of tal provides both superior defence, as well as an easier ti with offence,"
Kat frowned but did as she was instructed and the pair clashed. A whirlwind of arms and the occasional leg as they tried to make their way through the other's defences. It didn't really go Kat frowned but did as she was instructed and the pair clashed. A whirlwind of arms and the occasional leg as they tried to make their way through the other's defences. It didn't really go anywhere for quite so ti. With both combatants taking it easy and in such an enclosed space there really wasn't much room for flourishes. That's until, instead of block of slapping away one of Kat's strikes, ng let Kat's arm slide forward past her guard.
Before Kat could capitalise though, ng trapped Kat's arm under her armpit and smiled, "Second rule when facing a fan user. If they keep the fans closed, use that to trap their arm. Now, technically I'm down an arm as well, but I've got much more control over your body. I think you might have more physical strength then , so freeing yourself isn't impossible, but it would take ti I can use to brain you or slit your throat. Do you want an example?"
Kat shrugged, "Neither will kill , so I'm not too worried about it, but if you want to use it as a teaching mont I don't mind,"
ng rolled her eyes, "Damn kids these days. If I said as much to anyone else, even with a healer on hand they'd be screaming abuse but you're just straight up cool with letting soone who is still nominally an enemy slit your throat as part of a lesson because I asked?"
Kat shrugged, "I an, when you can heal flesh wounds in seconds at most, the idea doesn't bother … though… now that I'm thinking about it properly it WOULD get in trouble with Lily so I better now,"
"You are one strange demon Kat," said ng with a shake of her head.
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