Round 54

Halie moved between the two women, positioning herself as a physical barrier between Hera and Jeane's predatory grip. The building groaned around them like a beast in its death throes, each pulse from the wardstone sending fresh tremors through the floorboards. "We need another solution," she said, her voice barely audible over the creaking timbers. "Something that doesn't involve—" She glanced at the ominous stone, then back to Jeane, her chastity a line she couldn't cross no matter how much her body might betray her. "—anything like what it's asking for."