<span style="color: #b35900">"we really need to work on your comforting skills."</span>Sellendra chuckled and shook her head.<span style="color: #0000ff"> "one at a time is quite enough."</span><br/><br/>Sharindia rubbed her face with both hands and shook her head.<span style="color: #003366">"your ego already lost you the chance to live with Anna and the mother you barely knew but sure, keep flaunting it like a man measuring his penis... for the record, battling wills with a trained Priestess is about as intelligent as me challenging you to a fist fight."</span>she shook her head and sighed irritably.<span style="color: #003366">"here's an idea, you can control it. you choose to open your mouth and brag about your immense, unstoppable power. you choose to clobber anyone who irks you. let me tell you a story."</span>she conjured a chair to sit down.<span style="color: #003366">"once there were these twin sisters, descended directly from the third most powerful Eternal to ever visit our world. they laid waste to anything that pissed them off, including their own home and entire cities besides that. one was a warlock and the other a mage and together they thought no one could stand in their way. but there was another mage, an ancient and powerful but completely mortal, with no alien advantages and she decided to stop them. she knew she couldn't match them with raw power but someone had to do it lest the whole world fall into ruin. so she sat back and she watched and listened. they bragged so much and they flaunted their powers so disgustingly that it was all too easy for our good mage to discern their weaknesses. when the good mage was ready she challenged the wicked sisters and utterly humiliated them. she turned their own powers against them to make them afraid and then she struck with her own powers and defeated them so completely that they have never again threatened the world even though they both still live."</span>she crossed her arms over her pregnant belly and shook her head.<span style="color: #003366">"i am that good mage. i defeated two Eternal hybrids who both have more raw power then you at the same time because i kept my mouth shut. real power doesn't sit at a table and brag. it doesn't lash out when challenged. real power is kept quietly hidden away so that when you need it the enemy doesn't have the first damned clue what they have brought down on themselves. that Priestess made a mockery of you and all of your power because you told her how to defeat you. she knew that external attacks would be pointless so she didn't waste time or energy trying it. never tell your enemies your defenses. she watched you fight Vyre, your attacks are entirely physical, meaning she is safe at range, a tactical weakness that she exploited. never tell your enemies your tactics or they will plan around them. but what did she do? she showed you only the most basic tools at her disposal. she got in your head, took control of your body and scrambled your perceptions. those are all very basic Priest combat tactics that tell you nothing about her true powers, the extent of her training or what she can do to you if she really wants to hurt you. she has been studying you since you walked into that house while you learned nothing about her. if you fight her again i suspect you will come out of that fight blind, deaf, without your sense of smell or taste and bleeding from every orifice in your head while she sits down to sip a glass of wine and snickers behind your back." </span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>