<Snipped quote by Artifact>

I feel like I see him everywhere I look. The shadows, the corner of my eye, the clients who walk through the door.

<Snipped quote by Legend Begins>

Wh— Oh... I think I know who you mean now...

<Snipped quote by Artifact>

*Rubs my arm and averts my gaze*
...

<Snipped quote by Nemeses>

You know, we really need the money.
*Through the same space warping effect, the metal stage slams flat onto your front and back, its width now separating us*

<Snipped quote by Session>

*The metal begins to peel outward as I explode from the other side of it immediately, moving with such swiftness that I stop mere millimeters from your face in the same instant, staring you down entirely expressionless*

<Snipped quote by Nemeses>

*Swings my leg around to kick you in the neck with new, enhanced weight behind it*
I’m ready to burn all the magic of that’s what it takes.

<Snipped quote by Session>

*Ducks down under your leg and moves into you in the same motion, planting my fist into your gut so hard that the sound of its connection echoes across the landscape*
Do it now. It might actually hurt a little bit.

<Snipped quote by Nemeses>

*Summersaults backwards with the momentum of the punch and lands on a freshly-spawned platform with my arms outstretched and begin chanting*
Magic of ground, hear my plea: refine this body and forge it anew. Your child born of dust and born once more from deep below, reinforce this weak, pathetic, disgusting, broken, ugly—good enough, you get the point!
*Brown bands of magic zip across my body and sink deeply into my flesh*

<Snipped quote by Session>

*Folds my arms behind my back and watches*

<Snipped quote by Nemeses>

*Holds my hands forward, palms up and utters something in a guttural, ancient language, clearly putting more care into this act than the earlier spell*
You seem like the type to want to fight opponents at their best, huh?

<Snipped quote by Session>

No. But annihilating you while you're useless won't send the proper message.

<Snipped quote by Nemeses>

*With a hearty laugh, places my hand against the sheer luminosity of the gate spell's boundaries, piercing its border by a hair*
I love that! I have to warn you though: the longer you push us, the more dangerous we get.
*Millions of points twinkle across the space, and I flash briefly with several different flavors of auras*

<Snipped quote by Session>

You're already dead. This is simply an exercise in how much you want others to suffer for your paycheck.

<Snipped quote by Nemeses>

*With my middle finger and thumb pressed together, arcs my arm over my head and lands the gesture with my index finger pointed at you*
There's a soul behind every job we take. Someone who feeds us in their cry for help. You're behind all of this suffering, and you have the gall to lecture us?
*Snaps with the same hand pointed at you, opening up a magic circle that fills the width of the entire space, from which an asteroid hurdles into all of us and extends beyond the bounds of the arena*

<Snipped quote by Session>

So eager to repeat how someone else is to blame for all the problems you’ve caused.
*Brings one leg back before jetting forward directly into the asteroid, emerging in a beam of light and an explosion on the other side with a scowl*
If you’re worried about how well you’ll sleep tonight in the face if your guilt, I can assure you that you won’t have to worry about that ever again.

<Snipped quote by Legend Begins>

That’s... um... I’m sorry.

<Snipped quote by Artifact>

It’s fine. Really.

<Snipped quote by Legend Begins>

*Holds out my hands*
No, I mean like, I'm, like, really sorry.

<Snipped quote by Artifact>

*Puts my hand on your shoulder*
Isis. It's fine.

<Snipped quote by Legend Begins>

That was just really, like, not an okay thing for me to say. I’m so sorry.