Yin has a terrible fever the day after she had saved Nui and the poison running through every fiber of her body. Nightmares plague her in her fever dream and make her restless, she continuously rolls around in her bed with sweat beading on her forehead. Whenever Yin woke up, she would be delirious and drinking a lot, and not just water. Nui turns up every other hour at the infirmary, checking whether or not Yin was doing any better. With irregular intervals, Yin wakes up and falls back asleep again, groaning in pain as the poison feeds on her body. Nui sits beside her, putting strips of cold, wet cotton on her forehead to ease her headache. A worried frown is always present on her small, olive coloured forehead while watching over Yin.

In the Tékaguó Empire, during the Xian-Dynasty, females with fair skin were favored, as well as women with small posture and small hands and feet. As such, Nui and Yin both were plain women, Nui has the small posture, but the colour of her skin likens that of a farmer. Yin, who had stayed inside for over a year, has the fair skin of a lady of high birth, but her length makes her stick out like a sore thumb... and yet, here they were, inside the Imperial palace, about to marry to the Emperor.  

The physician tries the best he can, but rare poison means rare antidote, especially when the ingredients ofr the antidote are located in the far west of the Wastes. Time is short and he has to hurry, because if he doesn't find an antidote soon, Yin will succumb to it. However, her body seems to handle the effects quite well, just like the last time she was poisoned. It almost seems as if she were resistant to poison, even though a female of low birth should not have to worry about being poisoned by their enemies. Nui comes by often, checking whether or not Yin was doing any better. Usually nothing had changed, but this time, Yin is fully awake and no longer pestered by nightmares. Nui sits by her side, trying to calm her down, but to no avail.

"No! I ain't takin' that rubbish the old man's offered me! Scary stuf happens inside the palace, don't you know?" Yin stubbornly answeres Nui's pleas to take the antidote. Nui, who is just as stubborn as Yin is, continues arguing with her. When she's finally had enough, Nui picks up the vial herself and uncorks the small glass container. They continue arguing for a while and currently, Nui is practically trying to force the content of the vial and the thing itself down Yin's throat. Yin, however, is not making it easy for her by running around in circles, waving a bamboo cane around as if it were her sword, leaving a trail of all kinds of ingredients for potions in her wake. Her funny sounding laughter fills the room, but Nui is not amused as she still chases Yin around.

"Yin, get back here!" Nui yells at her, while Yin is still running around, roaring with laughter, like a toddler trying to escape its mother when having to take a bath. Bandages are caugth around her legs, her hair is disshelved and Yin is still in her undergarment

"You will never catch the mighty Wei Yin, now taste my wrath," Yin yelled back  while throwin a shoe at her head. Looking back to see Nui's reaction, she can't see where she's going an her foot collides with a bronze pot. Nui cringes at the impact and how much it must hurt, Yin dramatically falls over and crumples up, soothin her small toe.

"Well, appartently, pottery can defeat the mighty Wei Yin," Nui says whit a smirk growning on her angelic face. Nui bends over to grab Yin's shoe of the ground and her long, black braid snakes over her shoulder. 

"And I must say," Nui continues, "your aim is off, I thought you could do better," and throws the shoe right back at Yin, who is still holding her painful foot.  Without looking at the shoe, Yin sticks out her hand, grabs it out of the air and throws it back at Nui, this time hitting her right on her heart. 

"You were saying..?" Yins answers with a devious smirk plastered on her face and turns to look at Nui. Flabbergasted, Nui sinks to the ground, throwing her long braid over her shoulder in a boyish manner. Yin just plucked the shoe out of the air as if it were a feather floating down on the wind, without straining one unneccesary muscle, without looking at it! 

"You know," Yins says after a short pause and groans, "my foot still hurts like hell." 

Even though Nui was still kind of mad at Yin for not taking the antidote and running around like a lunatic, she couldn't stay angry with Yin atfter this. Nui roared with laughter, tears rolling down her cheeks and Yin followed suit, ending up snorting. 

Then, all of a sudden, the Emperor stands in the middle of the room, looking at the two women, supposed ladies, laughing themselves senseless. When Nui notices him first, she nudges Yin with her elbow and not even very softly. 

"Girl, what do you think-" Yin starts, but then sees the end of a robe in front of her. Slowly, her eyes sneak up the robe to meet the Emperor's curious gaze, she quickly looks down again.

"Ugh, I think I need somethin' to eat... maybe somethin' to drink with it?" Yin mumbled while slowly getting up from the ground. Nui starts snickering again and it soon turns into laughing out loud. Any normal person would be shaking in fear for the man in front of them and for the power he held; any normal person would pay their respect to him, bow to him; any normal person wouldn't dare act as if he weren't in the room... But then again, Yin isn't exactly normal. Actually, Nui isn't even sure whether she's human.

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Yin shakes on her feet, her face grows pale as the blood pulls away from her head. Before she could fall over, Nui is at her side, steadying her.  

"See, that's what you get for not taking the medicine," Nui scolds Yin as if she were a little child. Yin just scoffs and shakes her head, still ignoring the tall Emperor standing in front of them. 

"Did I hear that correctly? Why haven't you taken the prescripted medicine?!" The Emperor says with anger growing in his voice. How could she take such bad care of herself?

"Where is the medicine," the Emperor asks Nui, who is still holding Yin upright. Nui nudges her chin in the general direction of the vial, too nervous to talk. The Emperor picks up the vial, uncorks it again and approaches Yin carefully. Nui notices the sense of familiarity between them and wonders if they used to be friends, even though it shouldn't be possible. 

"You hold her down, I'll put it inside her mouth," he orders Nui as he stealthily continues his way to Yin, who's being held still by Nui. This was probably the worst idea anyone could have made up, Yin is much stronger than petite Nui and can free herself within seconds. This is exactly what happens and once again, Yin is running in circles, now not only evading Nui, but also the Emperor, who seems to be enjoying himself. 

"Okay, Yin, can you now take the medicine," the Emperor says after a while of chasing after her. Yin innocently looks at him, pouts and bats her eyelashes. He just sights and pinches the bridge of his nose while Nui is still dumbfounded by his behaviour. He's an emperor, he runs an entire continent! And yet he was running after Yin as if she were his little sister and he was a simple farmer! I guess that's the effect Yin has on people...

"You're not going to take it, are you?" he grumbles. Yin silently shakes her head and grins. Oh, he better not do what I think-

"Guards! Capture that woman!" the Emperor orders the soldiers standing outside of the infirmary. And the bastard just did it!

Guards storm inside, weapons unsheated, ready to attack any form of danger, to die for their Emperor. The Emperor repeats his command and points at Yin, laughing on the inside because of the hilarious situation. There's no way he's going to show the soldiers the friendly side of him, they would start to despise him, think he's weak, and he could not have that happening... and his ego didn't allow it to. Little did he know that his ego would be shattered by Yin when she beat up some of his best soldiers and had her sword at his neck. Wait! He's not gonna order them not to hurt me?! The little shit!

The Emperor can pretty much see that realisation starting to dawn on her and smirks. Seeing her surrender to the soldiers in fear would be so fun to watch. 

The first guard to approach her isn't very worried about capturing her, since she's just a woman. Yin simply stomped her foot on top of his and let his own momentum topple him over before grabbing both of the shuang gou out of his hands. The two that run at her next are more careful, but still they are taken by surprise as she leaps at them and uses their chests as a springboard, she hooks the shuang gou behind their armourplates, letting them plummet to the ground. The momentum she built up using the two men she uses to kick the soldier behind them right in the face with a perfect spin kick. The man she grabbed the shuang gou form returns with the qiang from his fellow soldier. He thrust the weapon at her, from the outside he looks precise, as if he knows what he's doing, but Yin can pretty much feal the fear rolling off him in waves, feel the wavering in is attacks, the uncertainty. That is the most dangerous thing on the battlefield: hesitation, the lack of confidence and bravery. All of a sudden, the spear thrust forward again and it would have gone straight through her abdomen, weren't it for her flexibility. Yin bends like a palmtree in a storm, her upper body pointing to the ground, but the shuang gou hook around the shaft of the spear near the spearpoint. Sweat trickles down Yin's spine and face, the wound on her shoulder hasn't healed properly and new skin was tearing because of the effort to keep the soldier from perforating her. The soldier struggles to free the spear from her hook swords, but before he can even properly try, Yin has the shuang gou out of his hands, on the ground. With another spin kick, she has him splayed on the ground, unconcious as well. 

What the heck?! Yin what are you do- WHAT EVEN ARE YOU?! He's going to kill he- oh, never mind... these kind of thoughts ran through Nui's head when watching her fight the soldiers, admiring her fighting. The Emperor on the other hand, paled at the damage a poisoned, weakened Wei Yin could do... she used martial arts, which is strictly forbidden... she beat the four imperial soldiers without batting an eye about it... Well, he thought, searching for an explanation, she is one of the Wei-household... I guess Liang could have taught her something, but she's a genius! 

During that fight, something had switched inside Yin, a deadly calm slipped over her and embraced her. Her jade green eyes were cold like the stone itself when she looked at the Emperor again. With the feline grace of a cat and the stealth of a seasoned warrior she makes her way to him, anger radiating of her. One of the hook swords she holds at his throat, the other hangs beside her body, her arm limp. 

"Do not play such a trick on me ever again!" Yin throws the hook swords on the ground and spits on the floor,  just like the fishers at her vililage do when they express their distaste of someone. Something in her eyes remind him of his close friend, of one of his best soldiers and generals. 

As Yin walks away, to her room, she wonders why she all of a sudden just lost it, why she just snapped. Even while wondering about all this, she still feels the anger boiling inside her. Any of the concubines-to-be that greet her on her way she would snarl at, scaring  everyone on her path. She was simply pissed off, accidents are bound to happen.