🌺Arial 'Ari' Elisabeth Lester🌺

"When Sorrows come..."

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[🌺Arial 'Ari' Elisabeth Lester🌺 @WhenSorrowsLady]

🌺Arial 'Ari' Elisabeth Lester🌺

The Falcon
Lady Lester
Baroness of Caerleon
Leader of the 'Sorrows'

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions” -Hamlet, Act IV, Scene V

[🌺Arial 'Ari' Elisabeth Lester🌺 @WhenSorrowsLady]

@PorlockFred @thebattalions @hiIdeguard attention to her surroundings.

She stills, blade still at Fred's throat, eyes flicking to the side. They're someone else in the apartment.

[🌺Arial 'Ari' Elisabeth Lester🌺 @WhenSorrowsLady]

@PorlockFred @thebattalions @hiIdeguard Her blade has barely grazed his skin however when a sound catches her ears. A noise somewhere else in the house. A solder might have finished with their victim before going to look for new trouble but she's an assassin by trade and she hasn't lived this long by not paying+

[🌺Arial 'Ari' Elisabeth Lester🌺 @WhenSorrowsLady]

@ForWingedSpied @LJamesMoriarty @PLAGUEISMS @thebattalions At the sound of the shout behind her she doesn't wait, daring the risk she spins, sheathing her blades even as she jumps for Dorian's hand and he jerks her up over the wall.

[🌺Arial 'Ari' Elisabeth Lester🌺 @WhenSorrowsLady]

@LJamesMoriarty @PLAGUEISMS @ForWingedSpied @thebattalions She jumps backward, ducking away from the scalpel and then from the knife, her breath coming in quick rasps, her world starting to blur with blood loss and now it's all she can do to defend herself from the two of them as she retreats toward the fence behind her.

[Louis James Moriarty || M @LJamesMoriarty]

@PLAGUEISMS @WhenSorrowsLady @ForWingedSpied @thebattalions "I am not a doctor."

He adjusts his knife in his hand, getting a better grip on a hilt slick with his own blood.

But as he speaks he smiles.

"I have no reason not to kill you."

"Because I am also the Lord of Crime."

He attacks.

[🌺Arial 'Ari' Elisabeth Lester🌺 @WhenSorrowsLady]

@LJamesMoriarty @ForWingedSpied @PLAGUEISMS @thebattalions Ari faints to Moriarty's right then twists, dodging away from his knife, throwing herself at the scalpel woman instead.

[🌺Arial 'Ari' Elisabeth Lester🌺 @WhenSorrowsLady]

@LJamesMoriarty @ForWingedSpied @PLAGUEISMS @thebattalions Normally she would have taken advantage of the fact that Moriarty only has one knife to block with to cut open his exposed left side but if she does she'll only be exposing her own side and back to the scalpel woman. Not an option.

The woman needs to be dealt with+

[🌺Arial 'Ari' Elisabeth Lester🌺 @WhenSorrowsLady]

@ForWingedSpied @PLAGUEISMS @LJamesMoriarty @thebattalions Moriarty's other side, using her swords longer reach to full advantage.

Maybe she can still fulfill her goal here after all.

[🌺Arial 'Ari' Elisabeth Lester🌺 @WhenSorrowsLady]

@ForWingedSpied @PLAGUEISMS @LJamesMoriarty @thebattalions Behind her Ari can hear Dorian getting Accy out. Good that's good. Her job now is to cover their retreat. She ducks away from the new woman's scalpel, (and who the hell brings a scalpel to a sword fight???) and makes as if to back away, then faints sideways, twisting toward+

[🌺Arial 'Ari' Elisabeth Lester🌺 @WhenSorrowsLady]

@LJamesMoriarty @PLAGUEISMS @ForWingedSpied @thebattalions The newcomer's appearance changes everything.

She lunges forward, moving fast even as the new woman is still rising. Her sword skids off of Moriarty's knife and is thrown wide. Her belt knife flashes toward the new woman.

[🌺Arial 'Ari' Elisabeth Lester🌺 @WhenSorrowsLady]

@LJamesMoriarty @thebattalions @PLAGUEISMS He's just dodged for the last time!

...But no shot comes

Only a voice from above

A voice she doesn't know

Her eyes widen even as a figure slumps against the branches

(Accy!!)

And in an instant she sees what has happened.

"Crow!"

[🌺Arial 'Ari' Elisabeth Lester🌺 @WhenSorrowsLady]

@LJamesMoriarty @thebattalions @PLAGUEISMS Almost there, another graze. The blood loss is starting to get to her but it doesn't matter. In another moment she'll have him!

He throws himself out of the way and there's triumph in her eyes because now there's no tree protecting him from Accolon.+

[🌺Arial 'Ari' Elisabeth Lester🌺 @WhenSorrowsLady]

@thebattalions @LJamesMoriarty Her blades find wood not flesh but it's only a momentary delay. With only the one blade of his own he wont be able to block her, he'll have to dodge and once he leaves cover Accolon will finish him.

She yanks her swords free from the bark and throws herself at him.

[🌺Arial 'Ari' Elisabeth Lester🌺 @WhenSorrowsLady]

@thebattalions @LJamesMoriarty Her knife got him but she can tell it's only a shallow cut. Not enough but he's on the defensive now and. She won't give him time to recover. She throws herself at him again.

[🌺Arial 'Ari' Elisabeth Lester🌺 @WhenSorrowsLady]

@LJamesMoriarty @thebattalions distraction and charges.

[🌺Arial 'Ari' Elisabeth Lester🌺 @WhenSorrowsLady]

@LJamesMoriarty @thebattalions she needs the help.

To her frustration Moriarty actually jumps away from the bullet, but as nice as it would be take his legs out from under him that easily Accolon's interference still gives her more than enough of an opening.

As Moriarty jumps aside, she uses his momentary+

[Wuming @namelesflower]

@LJamesMoriarty @WhenSorrowsLady This is Ari's fight so he's held back until now but Moriarty only has the one cut and and his commander is bleeding heavily.

(I hope I won't get scolded for interfering)

He aims his gun and fires.

[Louis James Moriarty || M @LJamesMoriarty]

@WhenSorrowsLady still raised.

A suspicion takes him.

"Are you the one who targeted Sebastian Moran and Fred Porlock?"

[🌺Arial 'Ari' Elisabeth Lester🌺 @WhenSorrowsLady]

@LJamesMoriarty sword flashing for his now undefended chest.

[🌺Arial 'Ari' Elisabeth Lester🌺 @WhenSorrowsLady]

@LJamesMoriarty so close that it nicks her cheek as it passes.

Her body moves instinctively, years of training bypassing pain as she pulls her second, shorter, blade from her belt.

As his knife move back toward her throat she catches the blade just below the guard of her belt knife, her+