"what have you done Tahir?! You deserve to die for this!" Aisha's screams echo through the gladiator's pit while a crowd erupts in cheers but no person seems to be sitting in the stands, like the cheers are completely imaginary.

She turns her attention to Tahir, he is standing before her with a sword in hand, his domain doesn't seem powerful in her mind but she still wants to be on a lookout for a domain ability.

Just then, the three gates around the pit open, releasing a lion, a bull and a horse. Tahir imediately jumps on the horse, keeping the sword close to his hip.

The lion and bull attack Aisha while she keeps her attention on Tahir with a horse, she crosses her arms and hits them both with gigantic explosions, they both lie bloody on the ground as Tahir swings at her but gets kicked off the horse and punched with an explosive fist.

The gates open once more and a lion and a bull enter the arena, the bull charges at Aisha and kills the horse while Aisha jumps off, unscathed. She kills the lion from a long range and dodges another charge, by now she is tired but the domain still stayed even though Tahir was knocked at the wall, suggesting he is awake.

Sure enough, Tahir is sitting leaned up against the wall behind her and the bull charges, she dodges the charge and endangers Tahir.

Seeing the incoming attack he gets up with haste but still ends up getting hit and carried by the bull with one of the horns embedded in his side. With the dangerous wound he got, he musters up some strenght to lift up his sword and impales the bull in the head.

The bull dissapeared but the injury he gained stayed, and while holding his side he comes to a realisation: he has no chance to defeat her.

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Hell, he has no chance to save Ezra. Once he dies she will go for Ezra, and Ezra will likely die from the Grandmaster. There is no winning scenario in this situation.

But in these desperate times, the gates open and Tahir launches a full assault on Aisha, simultaneously with the animals.

She wasn't able to focus on all of them and while she kills the bull, the lion cuts her arm off with its sharp claws. And Tahir takes her off guard and stabs her in the stomach.

She moves swiftly and breaks the blade of the sword in half, leaving Tahir stunned and unable to move: the perfect target for an attack.

But she catches herself in the middle of the attack and tumbles across the ground and when she gets up Tahir asks her:

"Why do you do this? Why risk life and limb for a person who hadn't wronged you? Why wish death apon a child?"

"Hadn't wronged me? He destroyed my world! The only person i could consider close in my life and the only person that actually cared for me! He ruined it all... You can't possibly hope to understand..." Aisha says with tears rolling down her cheeks, overwhelmed with sorrow she summons her fury and launches an explosion at Tahir.

"You asked the most pointless questions, Ezra is a criminal and i'm just bringing him to justice, there is no better reason than that." and with those words she sorrounds an already heavily bloodied Tahir with flame and knocks him back against the wall with a smaller explosion.

With that final attack, the domain clears and they apear back in reality.

She stands above Tahir, who looks to be dead, and regenerates her missing arm.

"I'm truly sorry it had to end this way, if you had only let me take him, none of this would have happened. I do wish i could have given you a second chance, but it would have been impossible given the sircumstances."

She pulls out the blade piece which was stuck in her abdomin and heals that wound as well.

As the situation takes place, Ezra watches, hidden behind a tree. Tears of hatred fill his eyes and roll down his face, he wants to go and fight Aisha but if he does so then Tahir's sacrifice would have been for nothing.

Still, he regretfully gets up and unknowningly runs away in the direction of the Khapesh palace.