Karren looked at her hands after the explosion faded and smiled softly.<span style="color: orange">"It worked, interesting..." </span>She looked down at the runes and smirked, even after she was stabbed and slowly fell to her knees with one hand on the blade her grin remained.<span style="color: orange">"Then you'll be quite displeased to hear... that you're just teaching me new tricks." </span>She pushed the blade further into her chest where it seemed to be absorbed by her body and the sealed the wound with the Elf's own power. With the same smirk she repaired her robes and made several quick hand motions and mimicked the Elf's spell flawlessly, but rather than stabbing her she walked around her and shook her head in disappointment.<span style="color: orange">"You would have made a great tutor for me, you know? Teaching me to control my powers, saving me from all this trouble. If only you were there when I was a child."</span>Demonic energy surged through Karren's form and she took a firm grip on the Elf with both hands, channeling the corruption into the Elf.<span style="color: orange">"Maybe you can still help."</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>