<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/7/7f/Ibuki_eyes.jpg)</div><strong>Name :</strong>Heini (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=231826.msg11399165#msg11399165)<br/><strong>Element :</strong>火 Fire<br/><strong>Location &amp; Time :</strong>The Palace<br/><strong>Tagging :</strong>Li Shin, The Black Clad Assassins.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Having her hands already free probably saved Heini's life. The Judge's command to help defend the palace was totally unnecessary. The young thief was only doing what she must to survive, and thieving was something that came easily to her, but it was not in her soul. She only stole from those who could afford to loose what she took, never from those who could not.<br/><br/>And defending what was good against some dark evil came as naturally to her as breathing.<br/><br/>The first dart had killed the warden before she had even realised that there was a danger. The second dart was aimed at the judge and turned aside by Fu Li Shin's palm strike. The third dart came at Heini. This was a mistake on the part of the assassin. They underestimated the young thief, as did most. If the assassin had taken out the Judge first, there would have been little warning, but Heini would probably have survived. But taking the warden first, then the judge, and the girl third...<br/><br/>Heini's hands whipped up, the ropes falling away, the dart that was aimed at her neck seemed to slow in her perception, like the insects she had seen the girls at the school trying to catch with chopsticks. Heini had watched them practising after class, back when she was employed at the school, had seen them trying to capture the flies and moths, and mostly failing. She had gone into the classroom they had just left and looked at the instructions written for them, had realised what they were doing wrong. She had pulled her own chopsticks from her sleeve, seen the mosquito that was buzzing around ....<br/><br/>The dart sped toward her. She had no chopsticks to catch it with. The point gleamed with poison. Heini knew she would die if she touched that. Her palms came together a mere six inches from her face, trapping the lethal projectile by the fletching, holding it.<br/><br/>A dark shadow moved in the periphery of her vision and without even knowing she did so, Heini hurled the dart back in that direction.<br/><br/>Everything slowed down again to normal speed and she grinned at the Judge. "Pay me a day's wages, and I'll do as you ask", she said with a laugh. She didn't mean it. Someone had attacked her and her instinct was to take the side of the good guys, pay or no, but it didn't hurt to ask... She followed the judge into the palace, both of them moving in a blur that defeated the attackers who tried to stop them.