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Ashisu didn't have to wait very long for Fire to answer. She stood up so fast that she knocked her chair over and the scarf on her head fell, once again revealing that strange and beautiful hair. "You want me to use mound control against people?! Read their thoughts unwillingly? Force actions upon them? I only use my abilities in self defense! I only read thoughts to make sure someone isn't going to kill me. If you think I'm going to do that to people, you must be out of your mind!"

A spark of anger went through Ashisu. He had been using his gift to fight, to murder, since he was a child. He had faced any hate, any insults that came from anybody without hiding what made his different. He had stayed loyal to the king, almost dying dozens of times, doing whatever was asked of him. And this girl couldn't even do one single thing. "I'm sorry, she isn't normally like this..." The man Simon said, obviously trying to make up for the serious lack of respect that Fire had shown.

The girl went running out of the room and Ashisu shook his head. "It is quite all right, as any respect I had for her is now gone. Ashisu stood up. "It is obvious that I am no longer welcome here. I shall take my leave." Without another word Ashisu left headed in the direction he had seen Ferris take off in with his horse. As he walked he undid the tie in his hair, letting it fall loose like it usually did. The time for diplomacy was over, so there was no longer any need to keep it up.

As he entered the stables he saw that Fire was also in there. The intelligent half of his mind was telling him to just ignore her, get Magic, and leave. But the stubborn, angered side told him otherwise, and for one of the first times in his life, he followed that one. He took several long angry strides to where Magic was being kept, it was only then that he spoke. "You are a childish, selfish, bitch did you know that? You hear something you don't like so instead of telling me you don't want to help, you throw a temper tantrum. All my life I have faced the hate that people have direct toward me without hiding it. I have used my gift to protect, to fight, to murder. I follow each and every order given to me and have never asked for anything in return. And now I march to my death because you refuse to help a single person save the land you live in. Let me tell you something, the people in the uprisings do want to kill you, they want to kill each and every person in the land. When I leave here it will be the last time you see me, I will die out there and then they will march here to murder you and everyone else. I wish you luck, you are going to need it." Ashisu never raised his voice past that of a normal conversation. He kept his tone calm and serious, just he had when explaining why he was here. Yelling had never gotten him anything before, so why try now?