[...When would a knight have time to take up healing--
You know what, it doesn't matter. Nai doesn't see any need to hold back against the Temple Knights--if any of them were to be left breathing after this, it could certainly cause some unsavory rumors to crop up that could prove problematic. But their sins are truly innumerable, and Nai is already justifying this slaughter in her mind as she goes on the attack.
That darkness is overwhelming, resonating with every bit of Nai that wants to go back to simply cutting anything in her path. Because in the end people are just flesh, bone, no better than the animals she hunted, and these people at least deserve it, they deserve to die like the people they've left scared to live--
But Fray's words bring her back from that brink every time. They let her keep her focus, and those flames she reaches out and touches--she feels a little more centered. In control of herself, rather than moments from giving into her urges. She wonders, inwardly, if this should be a teaching experience at all, but it must say something about the faith he has in her that he allows her to kill them herself.
And kill them she does. The heavier blade does at least mean that it's less messy than her usual when she gets like this, but for a moment, there's peace, quiet, and many dead bodies littering the ground. It's peaceful. For a long while, this silence was the only peace she got, and she simply breathes for a moment. They need to find that girl, but...]
...My thanks, for the assistance.
[...Nai's going to pull out a cloth to at least try to clean herself up a little bit before they go see that little girl. No need to scare her by looking more frightening than the knights, right?]
You were not wrong, about such power being overwhelming.
[Nai's wounds are patched - the healing magic feeling much like any she's experienced before... but then, of course it is. It's based on the healers who have healed her in the past, drawn on her memories and woven through her aether and inner darkness with ease. She doesn't have to think about it; she simply knows what must be done, and does it.
Perhaps the same can be said of Nai, who has taken well to the dark arts.]
It is not a power that anyone can wield. You've done well.
["Fray"'s golden eyes squint behind the mask - a smile. Nai may not smile easily, but who else could be so proud of her but herself?]
Should you wish to keep pursuing this power, I will be here to guide you. But first, you've a woman in distress to tend to.
[The Church's doors yawn open, and a frightened young woman makes her way towards them, eyes wide. She looks around at the slain knights - not with fear, but with curiosity.
She'll thank Nai, whenever Nai is ready to approach her and explains the situation; all the knights that were guarding her exited the Church to fight Nai, so she's been spared any injury or harm thanks to the timely interference. Her thanks are heartfelt and genuine, and once she's been reassured (by Nai, of course, as "Fray" simply watches silently) that Nai's uninjured, she takes her leave back to her grandmother in the Brume.]
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[...When would a knight have time to take up healing--
You know what, it doesn't matter. Nai doesn't see any need to hold back against the Temple Knights--if any of them were to be left breathing after this, it could certainly cause some unsavory rumors to crop up that could prove problematic. But their sins are truly innumerable, and Nai is already justifying this slaughter in her mind as she goes on the attack.
That darkness is overwhelming, resonating with every bit of Nai that wants to go back to simply cutting anything in her path. Because in the end people are just flesh, bone, no better than the animals she hunted, and these people at least deserve it, they deserve to die like the people they've left scared to live--
But Fray's words bring her back from that brink every time. They let her keep her focus, and those flames she reaches out and touches--she feels a little more centered. In control of herself, rather than moments from giving into her urges. She wonders, inwardly, if this should be a teaching experience at all, but it must say something about the faith he has in her that he allows her to kill them herself.
And kill them she does. The heavier blade does at least mean that it's less messy than her usual when she gets like this, but for a moment, there's peace, quiet, and many dead bodies littering the ground. It's peaceful. For a long while, this silence was the only peace she got, and she simply breathes for a moment. They need to find that girl, but...]
...My thanks, for the assistance.
[...Nai's going to pull out a cloth to at least try to clean herself up a little bit before they go see that little girl. No need to scare her by looking more frightening than the knights, right?]
You were not wrong, about such power being overwhelming.
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Perhaps the same can be said of Nai, who has taken well to the dark arts.]
It is not a power that anyone can wield. You've done well.
["Fray"'s golden eyes squint behind the mask - a smile. Nai may not smile easily, but who else could be so proud of her but herself?]
Should you wish to keep pursuing this power, I will be here to guide you. But first, you've a woman in distress to tend to.
[The Church's doors yawn open, and a frightened young woman makes her way towards them, eyes wide. She looks around at the slain knights - not with fear, but with curiosity.
She'll thank Nai, whenever Nai is ready to approach her and explains the situation; all the knights that were guarding her exited the Church to fight Nai, so she's been spared any injury or harm thanks to the timely interference. Her thanks are heartfelt and genuine, and once she's been reassured (by Nai, of course, as "Fray" simply watches silently) that Nai's uninjured, she takes her leave back to her grandmother in the Brume.]