At Odds Continued

"So it WAS you then!"

Three words of power lit up along the length of Princess Inara's blade before she had even finished speaking. Her expression glimmered with a smattering of emotions, mostly cold-blooded viciousness as she eyed Lady Jiang.

And Lady Jiang clearly saw it as well. Her mind raced, trying to come up with any way to get out of this alive but she knew Princess Inara's strength and temperament all too well by now, not to mention the two guards behind her.

Even if she tried to use flight magic which she could barely activate properly even under normal circumstances let alone under duress trying to get away from this place, there was a pretty good chance she would be dead before her feet would leave the ground.

And if by some miracle she managed to take off, Uri would still be left down there and that would most certainly spell his doom.

She looked towards Princess Inara with a complicated expression. How had it come to this?

"Sister...why are you doing this?"