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"I've spent the last thirty years locked in a room," the blue woman remarked. "And a hundred years before that. You'll forgive me if I'll take the chance to speak my mind. Or speak at all. You have a scar, by the way." Jinn touched her face, her eye. "Right here."

"I KNOW!"

"Hm. I guess you do."

The brief exchange lasted only a few seconds but the wind holding him down weakened a little by her distraction, allowing him to crawl over and grab his weapon. It gave Neo the same chance and she blinked forward, slicing at Cinder's back.

Panicking, Cinder spun and swept an arm at her, hurling her back.

Not without being struck in kind.

Cinder hissed and held her hand, not wounded thanks to aura, but smarting