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Bullet.

Gunfire.

Today would not be an easy day. Sina kept her breath steady and slow even as she heard the projectiles whisking through the air off to the side. She shifted, ready to move if she had to but not moving just yet. Let them shoot each other, so long as the bullets didn't start flying in her direction.

As soon as that thought was in her head she found herself staring down the barrel of a gun.

At least the man holding it looked as surprised as she did. Was he shushing her? He was. She was not a child. She watched his movements and nodded at the conclusion. She would stay, silent.

Thinking.

He was an Orc. No one liked Orcs except Orcs, usually. But, these were trying times, and the reasons for not liking Orcs were ridiculous, anyways. Stereotypes and culture clash were the problem, not the Orcs. But that was a study for another time, a time that would hopefully come again.

He was an Orc, but he was not an Other.

She would have been shot on sight if he was.

Hm.

The gunfire ceased and there was a voice from up above.

"Bring her up here with you!"

Sina could bring herself up the hill just fine, thank you very much, and that she did. She had paced through the trees, waiting, waiting, waiting for the Silencers to show up on many days and nights before and knew the trees and their configuration like the back of her hand. She made it to the patch of woods before the man's companions.

"Who are you and why are you here?"

She had no time for chit chat.

Sina stared down at the corpse. He shouldn't have died. The Others should never have come to their Earth. But that was the hand they had been dealt.

It took some time, but eventually they heard a voice coming up the hill behind Sina.

"Vick? I know you said bring the elf woman up, but we can't seem to find her."

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All was quiet, and then, it was not.

The wind rustling the leaves in the trees made a certain sound. Footsteps broke the pattern. Unlikely as it was she hoped it turned out to be survivors- otherwise it meant the Silencers had come. Sina let her eyes sweep the land, turning her head this way and that to figure out where the footsteps were coming from.

There.

Three men in the distance: one dwarf, one human, one orc. Armed, from the looks of it. She was not as well armed today; it was too late to worry about that now.

She couldn’t decide what their intentions were. Usually the ones the Others sent were alone or paired off, but maybe they were adding on a third to ensure at least one of them came back this time.

It wasn’t wise to stay here much longer.

At the same time, they needed the farm to keep going.

Sina did not dwell on such things at the moment. The moment at hand was what was important.

If these men were Others, they were an unusual sort. They didn’t usually gesture so much with their hands, but Sina supposed there must be some variation somewhere. She was about to throw a spell to send them in another direction, get the game started, figure out what they really wanted, when she heard another noise.

A gun.

A bullet through the air.

It lodged in a tree near the men. Bad aim or a sadistic preview?

Somewhere up the slope, someone had fired. Sina didn’t move. Whoever it was hadn’t seen her yet, which gave her an advantage.

She apologized to the men, silently, in her head, because if one or more of them died at least it wasn’t one of the people she had said she would help take care of. Ideally no one would die but the Silencer. Unless it was a ruse, and they were all Silencers.

Eledan was not going to be happy if she died today. Or at all, really. He was an elf and as such did not appreciate having to go out and defend humans and orcs and a half-breed like Sina.

But, as she always told herself, it could be worse.

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It was quiet out here in the woods.

Sina was used to the quiet murmurs and quickly averted stares. She was used to the hustle and bustle of the party life, too. Elves did like a party.

But this quiet she was still getting used to.

They had killed off countless everything- elves, humans, orcs, dwarves, sentient, non-sentient, they didn't seem to care. Whoever they were. They were not from here; had never been seen. But they were down here and not just in their massive ships now, that was certain.

What they looked like was not certain. Whatever it was, the Others could possess.

She did what she could. Found a man, saved him and his family- he seemed surprised that she could fight, and that she would fight for something other than an elf- and it had snowballed from there. Ace Remington, his family, more random strangers: some human, some orc, one elf, now all crowded into a house in the woods.

Sina waited patiently. They would send another because they knew they were here. They would need to move, soon, but for now, Sina waited. She had found camouflage to dress in, hiding in the woods to wait for another Silencer.

She didn't enjoy killing them, but it had to be done.

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Name: Sina

Appearance: Sina is 5'10" and 150lbs. To anyone but an elf, she looks like you would expect an elf to look- pale, long bronze hair, pointed ears, bright green eyes.

Biography: Sina was born to a single mother, a human. No elf would lower themselves and stay. Her younger years were difficult: an elf being dropped off at school by a human was normal enough (thank goodness for nannies), but of course she told everyone that it was her mother dropping her off, not realising that she was an oddity.

Middle school was better, because she could go herself, and no one knew she wasn't a full blood elf unless she told them. She was something exotic to them: pointed ears that were somehow softer, green eyes (which do not naturally occur in elves), and something else they couldn't quite place. She had already learned to be an outcast, so now she learned to be an elf and discovered that she didn't quite fit in with them, much as she tried. From them, at least, she learned that magic was still around and that she could do it.

In high school, she tried hanging out with humans. She was seen as "slumming it", so to speak, but there were people who didn't care. At the end of it all Sina realised that she really didn't have a group that she truly connected with.

She went to university for a degree in Diverse Psychology (a basic degree to get acquainted with the psychology of every race, nothing in depth) and continued on to do Master's in both human and elf studies in the same vein.

From there, she went to the FBI.

Initially she wanted to go with the CIA and be a cultural advisor and intelligence operator, but she realised she could do so much more. No one knew she wasn't a full elf, and she was called "exotic"- which could mean a threat to an elf, or it could mean a prize.

When the Others came, she had been slowly trying to infiltrate the elite crowd in Chicago, Illinois. Elves, prissy as they may appear, know how to survive. The First and Second wave were not problematic. Some died, of course- some died from every race. But the Third Wave was when the elves really started going down. Elves don't usually get sick- so when they do, it is usually fatal.

Psychological Profile: Sina is conflicted- she could be one of the elite, if she wanted to, but the human part of her can't let her lie like that. She wants to believe there is a way for everyone to live in harmony. Sina is often stoic and blunt like an elf, and at times her choices reflect the same.

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Post a random fact about yourself.

I'm "double jointed".

Why do you RolePlay?

As much as I enjoy writing and creating, I have trouble when it comes to forcing myself to sit there and write; with a partner or group, it's an activity and no longer just a chore. I find it makes stories more diverse and dynamic than if I were to write on my own.

I also like that role playing gives me another outlet to play someone not myself. It can be a fun challenge: on another site, I'm playing a character who is an herbalist and uses folk medicine in a pre-modern medicine era, whereas I am a paramedic today. I have to blend my understanding with what my character knows and figure out how to portray that.

The most exciting part about role playing for me is probably the character interaction. I come from a theatre background, so I would be content doing lines of dialogue back and forth all day- for me, it's all about the people and how they react to each other.

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