--❅| Delightful Violence

"His bastard little brother." Frost repeats herself for emphasis. If there's one person she would go through all of time to personally erase, it would be Kuai Liang, without a doubt. "He's Scorpion?" That would almost raise too many questions... if it weren't for the fact that Kuai Liang somehow being Scorpion means that she gets to kill the two of them as if they were one. All of a sudden that makes this strange change all the worth it. As for Smoke... Frost doesn't know that name. Not as well as she does the others, actually. In all likelihood, it was the name of someone already dead in her era. No real loss there. "Finally. We can agree on something." Bi-Han needs to go. There's no question about that. What Frost leaves out, however, is the reasoning for why she appears to finally agree with her counterpart. This other Frost wants to get rid of Bi-Han to become who she wants to be. The cyborg, conversely, seeks to steal his power. To usurp him and, when the time is right, kill Shang Tsung too. Sure, she'll be doing the right thing when all is said and done. But Frost is only doing this for herself. Not because Bi-Han needs to be removed from the picture. After him... Kuai Liang is next.

Would she need to kill her Scorpion? Only if it meant some kind of special necessity to climb the ladder and make herself the new Grandmaster, the idea come and goes in her mind, it means so much responsibility but erasing Bi-Han would probably create another enemy, but, isn't the enemy of another a friend? That would be decided later, but one thing is certain, Bi-Han is not prepared to be a Grandmaster, and it seems this repeats itself repeatedly in other timelines. "If yours isn't Scorpion... then who is your Scorpion?" Maybe it might be someone she doesn't know a thing about for sure, why is she making this useless question is just for the sake of curiosity. "Now, let's not get ahead of ourselves, there's a new clan in my timeline who also wants to defeat Bi-Han, since my Scorpion funded it along with his brother, but they don't represent a direct threat to me." Not for now, not at least. "I won't drop someone else's blood just because, not out of a whim, but Bi-Han surely needs to be erased, could mean a threat to the entire timeline if he keeps siding with Shang Tsung, but I'm not sure how dangerous he can be on his own." Tries to refocus her plan, knowing damn well that the other Frost has other ideas, more obscure than her own.

"A teacher in him? Of all people?" Frost scoffs, resting a hand on her hip. Even for as much as she despises Kuai Liang, she'd be one of the first to admit that he makes for an infinitely better teacher than Bi-Han ever could. Speaking of the bastard... "What do you mean Bi-Han is the only cryomancer of your era? What about his bastard little brother? Why isn't he a cryomancer?" Liu Kang's new timeline sounds worse and worse by the minute. Maybe it might be time to put deicide on the list of things to do. Set everything right while also making sure Frost has all the power she could ever want. "What's wrong with what you could be?"

Why is she scoffing at her? Frost still finds traces of her personality in the other one, she would only scoff when something sounds too ridiculous to be true, wasn't it like that in her timeline too? Her gut feeling tells her that whatever happened to the Lin Kuei in the history from where this Frost comes from, it was different than her own, and it just only started to see the night coming. "Do you mean Kuai Liang?" Bastard is an amusing word to call him, but for Frost, that is just a name with a story that she doesn't completely know. "He's a pyromancer, goes by the name of Scorpion, not very fitting considering his, could say, kind personality, I expected a more raging warrior behind the name, but he is simply everything that Bi-Han is not, same story with Smoke." If there are other cryomancers in her era, that's not something she might know about, the knowledge of it is still too fresh in her mind. "I don't have too many options now, but Bi-Han had the great idea of siding with a sorcerer, pulling from the strings, convincing to change how the Lin Kuei is to gain more power and such... I was supposed to be a warrior, not the servant of a sorcerer, so for that, Bi-Han must be erased from the map." She snaps her fingers with a certain hunger behind her white eyes. "Reclaim my new path in life, gain my lost autonomy, he is an unfit leader after all, and the loss of his brothers has only shown me that he is capable of breaking easily."

"You seem to have experience in that area, or at least, the impression of knowing too much." In her youthful heart, love is more of a deadly trap that could consume her, or simply a distraction, there's no greys in her mind, and in the end, is another type of curse.

Rain starts to laugh a bit though he know he shouldn't seeing how stressed and worried Frost was at the moment. He grabs her by arm and pulls her down on top of him, wrapping both arms around her in a tight embrace. "I'm fine...if I didn't trust you enough I would have pushed your hand away from my neck instantly. I got over stimulated is all. Enjoyed it a little to much." And that what he assumed happen. His body just hit with alot that he just couldn't stay conscious through it. Now he just tired, drained and wanting to relax. "You can lay on me for a bit..." their new bed has to be best gift since it kept him warm regardless of how cold Frost body was against his own. "My apologies for giving you a scare."

She would have slapped his face for laughing at how afraid she was of the possibility of making him unconscious, or worse, but this idea fades at the moment he takes her arm and pulls her down. She pulled the blanket over their bodies, knowing he would start feeling colder without it, she had a few minutes before he decides it's enough. But Frost feels tired as well, now that her mind is clearer and can think right, realizing now of how Rain was holding her, as if it didn't matter how cold her body felt, her cheek against his chest. "Apologies accepted." She says before sighing deeply, reaching one of his hands and removing it from her body, not because she felt uncomfortable, but her intentions was just a mindless demonstration of appreciation, tangling her fingers with his. "Just... let me know when you feel too cold, and I'll lay down next to you."

"Thanks gods, I thought I killed you for a moment." She was sweating from the sudden stress, caressing his cheek with her thumb while trying to bring him back. "Yes, you did just pass out, I think I choked you too hard, or something, what if I killed you? I'm so sorry." Frost might have gone too far with something, might have been the strength of her grip or her rhythm, but something had gone wrong. "I'm sorry, I think I got overboard."