Round 44

Silra's fingers flew across her keyboard even as the woman's words hit her like a physical blow. "Binding ritual?" The elf’s voice came out colder than she intended, each word clipped with barely contained fury. "Is that what you call tricking girls into group sex while promising magical power?" The soldiers tensed, their guns tracking toward Silra despite her obvious non-threatening stance.

The lead woman's eyes narrowed fractionally as she processed the rogue’s defiant tone. She made no move to stop the approaching cultists but didn't signal her own team either. "You misunderstand," she said, voice still flat but now carrying an edge that made everyone still except Silra. The technicians' scanning equipment began emitting higher-pitched whines as they focused on you specifically.

‘Fuck this,’ I thought, every muscle coiled and ready to move. The soldiers were already shifting formation—two groups pointing guns at us now: one for containment and one for… whatever the hell those robed freaks wanted. And this ice queen? She was playing both sides against each other while we stood naked and exposed.

Two could play at that game. "You want a binding ritual?" Silra’s voice dripped with sarcasm as she stepped forward, hands still raised but no longer submissive.* “How about one where you explain to these soldiers why the hell they’re pointing guns at innocent civilians who were just helping a friend move furniture? Or maybe you could start by telling us exactly which ‘contract’ we supposedly signed in blood while passed out from exhaustion?”

The lead woman’s expression didn’t change, but something shifted in her posture—predator noticing prey’s first mistake. “You misunderstand,” she said again, voice still flat but now carrying an edge that made everyone still except Silra. The technicians' scanning equipment began emitting higher-pitched whines as they focused on you specifically.

Her gaze locked onto Silra's face with cold calculation. "This wasn’t a blessing ceremony. This was a binding ritual—one designed to tether young women to ancient powers through... intimate rites." The words hit like a physical blow, but I didn't let it show. ‘Intimate rites’? Is this bitch serious?