<Viktoria> after Kuan Ti lept off the young Velkan dropped back down to all fours. She started making a determined stride toward the entrance and kept an eye out for Lungsho and Cuan Va
<Sophie> *When she approached the entrance to the door, the guards did not move for her as others in the room moved to follow her out. Fom behind she could hear the voice of the large ibexian call, "Back. All of you back." *The soldiers leveraged their polearms towards those who tried to escape and pulled the door open for viktoria to slip through.*
<Viktoria> "Hmm..." she eyed the guards sternly and started heading outside trying to keep a strong and proud appearance
<Sophie> *Behind her the door shut suddenly. Clicking closed. Beyond was the hall through which she'd entered, where the escorts of the lords had been made to stay. However they were strangely absent now. In their place stood just three ibexian guards in black cold plate who regarded Viktoria with complete silence. Moments later, Kuan-Ti would leap from a perch above, having circled around. The chamber was open to the crisp air, and the last of the fireworks exploded
<Sophie> above the garden in the bright night. Kuan-Ti, middled aged, clacked his staff against the ground--it's chimes rattling in the wind. "However does your kind survive, so stuck to the ground."
<Viktoria> she looked around with grave concern at the emptiness and her eyes settled on the new guards. She tried to stare them down but got no real response. She moved to a more open space when Kuan Ti landed and turned to face him. The open breeze made her Ibexian robe flutter around "Through honesty and integrity, traits i've found you lacking!"
<Sophie> *The three armored ibex moved, all at once, in almost unreal synchronisity and stopped just the same when Kuanti lifted a hoof. "You are a foal, Knight of Atheria. You blunder in here to contend with things that are not yours to understand nor yours to meddle with. I will give you a chance to bow. OTherwise I will have to break you upon the sone cold floor..."
<Viktoria> "I came here to strengthen bonds and tie friendships between our nations yet it seems at every turn my Queen's efforts are outright blocked, each time seemingly led back to you! Now I come here and it is obvious that you are deceiving these people for your own gain! What else is there to know but injustice iis being carried out?!"
<Sophie> *He just shook his head, and sighed, meeting viktorias fire with calm, solemn repoes. "It was never your kinds  right to come here. Ibex was better of alone. We were stronger then, when we did not go against the will of the Jade dragon who sleeps. I am the rightful heir to the ascension, i decieve noone beyond what is needed to rule my people and bring into prosperity and perpetuity. Your kinds wars are petty things, but we must take the side of the ones who
<Sophie> would not seek to destroy us. I am sorry taht you do not see through the lies of your empire, it pains me that your kind... who lived in harmony with all things have come now to upset our balance."
<Viktoria> "We have done nothing of the sort! Equestria are the aggressors in this war, not us!" she said angrily, showing her fiery youth and naivetie in comparison "I can't let you execute the father of the Lord I have pledged to help, not when he is innocent! Especially not to futher your own gain!"
<Sophie> "You trot with Lungsho and Cung-va... they were better off as they were before, without you. Lungsho's father owes me a great debt, only payable the balance he has denied me, and now, his son has denied me. I will plead with you one last itme, bring the balance Woto, or be broken with all the rest."
<Viktoria> "A great-" she stopped and thought that over, perhaps she just caught him out. Though she looked over the situation and realised she was heavily outmatched, especially without her weapon available "Hm. You seem awfully confident..." she eyed him
<Sophie> "I am at peace." *He said, calmly.*
<Viktoria> she pointed at him and spoke bravely "I want you to release Lungsho's father to me. I have questions for him"
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<Sophie> "You have my terms. Broker or break like water upon the stones of a river." *he said, sighing, and slowly lifting his staff to angle it at her.*
<Viktoria> she backed up one step when the staff was pointed at her and grit her teeth "What are you even trying? Is that supposed to intimidate me?"
<Sophie> *He didn't say anything, instead he took one step forward, and then another. The chimes that hung from smooth wooden staff jinggled and clanked. The orb at its top, filled with a swirling mass of color, was set into the mouth of a golden dragon whose fangs kept it in place. "I am surprised, you don't your own creation, when you see it. Atherian."  Then he stopped and said, "Like river unto rock. Shatter." The orb began to glow, at first indecphiberable form
<Sophie> it's previous swirl, then like a match struck it became a blooming star of blue light as crackle of energy, leapt from it to viktoria, striking her and her linker core with an unquantifiable surge of arcane energy unlike the which no normal unicorn could ever produce. It was like being struck by lightening that might've torn through and overwhelmed even the strongest of linker cores. Voices, distort and screaming like made foals, penetrated into her mind like
<Sophie> a shard dagger. Whatever the orb was, it contained unimaginable power. Atherian power.*
<Viktoria> "What-" she didn't have time to react, she barely widened her eyes at the massive surge of energy launched at her. There was a bright flash of dark blue from her chest as the Linker Core tries to redistribute the energy but was completely overwhelmed and offered her barely any protection. She cried out loudly and was launched away, her robe tearing apart and her Velkan strappings revealed on most of her body. She skidded along toward one of the
<Sophie> toward cutoff)
<Viktoria> balcony edges on her stomach. She grabbed her head as the mass of voices and screams ravaged her mind and it made her scream out in a panic. A mass of blue particles followed her along and swarmed around her as the Linker Core tried to do what it naturally did but simply wasn't able to
<Sophie> *The tortured voices wailed, ebbing from time to time as they were silenced the failed attempts of the linker core to control the blaze of arcane. Energe crackled like lightening around the staff, which Kuan-Ti raised to lean upon, his staff clacking against the floor. "You have lost."
<Viktoria> "N-no.. what... that's not..." she stuttered out some more nonsensical words and kept grabbing her head. She was clearly in no position to fight. "Shut up! Silence!" she yelled out at nothing. The particles slowly moved toward her chest and were absorbed but it revealed very little to what her capability was. If it was even a remote match to such power.
<Sophie> *Kuan lifted a hoof lazily and the three armored ibexians sprung into action charging Viktoria where they lay and leveraging their halberds against her. One was pushed towards her throat, threateningly. "Lay down your arms. You're to go with them peacefully."
<Viktoria> she was breathing heavily, still trying to recover from the attack. Her mind wasn't all there but she offered no resistance. She was unarmed, so she just moved her forelegs from her head to the ground
<Sophie> *As the ibexians, silently, began to gather her up, hoisting them between themselves Kuan-Ti made his way over to the vast doors that seperated the moonwell from the hall. He tapped it and it opened, "Behold. My right." From within there was quiet. Some cheered, others did not.*
<Viktoria> was in a daze and clearly defeated, her robe ripped apart and her mane a mess. She kept her gaze low