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<div class="bbCodeBlock-content">Ein Kebia[/u]]<br/>
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Ein spots it as he backs up, a man-shaped thing of pale blue crystal stalking through the trees.  It's form is distorted by cracks and decaying equipment but he can see the suggestions of facial features, and the eyes of the crystalline thing are intact, though they do nought but stare emptily forwards, showing no emotion or intelligence besides a flicker of some sort of...  Hunger...  <br/>
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Then the thing appears to see Ein too, and moves towards him, blade flashing in the semi-light of the deep forest.  For all that the creature is almost decaying, it's sword certainly seems to be in good enough condition to cut him to ribbons one way or another...<br/>
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Whipping the blade up in a crooked mockery of a fencer's salute, the creature lunges across the remaining intervening space!  Tip of it's sword seeking Ein as it flashes forwards, but for all it's parody of grace, it moves in stutters, and it is not so fast as it seems at first...</div>
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The figures barely even notice Zwei at first as theyf inally come into view of each other.  The two are fighting, hurling themselves about the sand-covered city at fearsome speeds as they clash.  The woman is slender, which belies her strength as she cleaves through a large stone hurled at her.  Her hair is wild and pale pink, whipping in the wind, and she carries a wave-bladed sword as she pursues her opponent, leaping from rooftop to rooftop as he flies away from her, hurling magic back towards her as he goes, always just warding back the tip of the woman's blade before it can cut him.  He is laughing rather than shouting now, a mad whooping cackling as he moves.<br/>
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Zwei's voice however cuts across them both, and they turn, caught off guard by her sudden appearance.  The clownish-looking man is the first to react, taking off towards her to a shout of anger from the woman he leaves behind as she is forced to take a slower series of jumps to make her way back to the ground.  "Ehe...  Hmm..."  The man examines Zwei, still hovering as he does so, as though disdainful of gravity's force.  "Who are you then?  Not one of those disgustingly moral minions of Cosmos, but not chaos either?"  He cocks an eyebrow at her.  "Well?  Speak up!  I asked you a Question!"<br/>
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<div class="bbCodeBlock-content">Neina[/u]]<br/>
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The wind seems to guide Neina, tugging on her, snowflakes swirling almost as though to show a path forwards.  "<i>Be wary summoner, they seek...</i>"  The voice whispers again, coolness in her mind for a brief moment at the same time as she hears shouts from up ahead.  The voices are muffled, and interspersed with a sound like shattering glass, but the wind urges Neina forwards, into danger..?<br/>
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Cresting a low hill, Neina sees a snow-covered altar, atop which sits a brilliant blue jewel, which -for a moment- occupies her entire world.  Then she blinks, and it is merely present, calling to her, singing a song of mountains and glaciers and the cutting frost-touched winds.  <br/>
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There are other concerns however, which are what drew the Viera from her reverie at the sight of the stone.  Shapes course along the snow, two beings in dark clothes, one with long hair as white as the snow, the other with shorter yellow-blonde spikes.  They clash, and clash, the blonde with a sword so massive it should have shattered the long thin curving blade the other carried just as it shatters the more ephemeral sharp-edged crystalline shapes that harry him as he fights his rival.  Yet they meet and meet and meet again, steel-on-steel's ring muffled by the falling snow as they fight up and down the altar's steps.<br/>
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In this tableau, no one looks to Neina however, and the stone is right there, calling to her, beckoning with that winter's voice.  A name on her lips that resonates with power held back only by distance...  <br/>
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<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4682b4">"<i>Shiva</i>"</span></div>
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