<div class="floatright">(http://pre01.deviantart.net/993d/th/pre/f/2012/195/c/a/legend_of_the_five_rings_female_samurai_by_phantom_cz-d579ozg.jpg)</div><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Seven Words of Wisdom</div><div class="spoiler_body">Personal: 13/13 Peripheral: 18/33<br/></div></div><br/>As Starlight tugged on Seven's sleeve, she glanced back to her with a look of compassion, understanding, but no less determination.<br/><br/>"In these lands, in the desert, water is life itself."  She used the hand not being tugged by Starlight to draw her knife, keeping it at hand but palmed to defend as necessary.  "If the wali is killed, the death toll for the city will be far worse than anything else one might expect.  Passion may rule the moment, but blood and tears won't nourish the crops or keep people alive."<br/><br/>She glanced away from Starlight, back to the crowd.  Although she spoke, her eyes were bouncing through the crowd for the first person she expected to break through.  "What we have to do is get the goddess to come, and this isn't going to do it.  I don't know if you can make that happen, or even if you can get people to calm down, but far better to stand here and make a difference than to die the slow, wasting death of thirst."<br/><br/>A slow, deep breath proved how resolute she was not to let this city die out in such a pointless and horrible fashion.  "Perhaps a speech that could rally everyone into a group prayer, or..."<br/><br/>It was only then that she realized that it was too late for Starlight to get away.  Withdrawal had not, after all, really factored into her considerations.  "I'm not a great defender, but I should be able to keep them from dragging you off."<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Initiative 9s</div><div class="spoiler_body">Roll Result: AndyZ rolled: 10d10<br/>First Target Number: 7<br/>Second Target Number: 10<br/>Comment: <br/>Result: 8, 9, 10, 4, 7, 9, 9, 7, 9, 5, <br/>For: 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, <br/>Total: 9<br/><br/>2 peripheral motes spent to augment, and 2 stunt dice.  If I don't make the stunt, I'll cross over another 2 motes.<br/></div></div>