Before Fulgardt and Skullius' battle began…
It was a tense standoff.
Rias and the nine women of the Order of the Trodden Rose stood against Sila, Kintar, Uyuniya and the Stark troops.
"The only thing that will be funny is to watch you eat your words, dwarf," Rias said.
"Is that so?" Kintar was beaming. She couldn't have been happier that the masked man called her that – a dwarf.
Eager to make him eat his words first, she undid a knot she had tied around herself in a string of ways than went beyond just physical. She had bound a portion of her powers – and her physical body – in order to yield a greater benefit later.
But later was now.
