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Ardus put itself between her and The Empress. The Emperor was still in fine condition where he sat, not at all bothered by the turn of events. He wasn't her target after all. He seemed to be hardly aware of her existence at all and was only staring forward as if he would prefer to be asleep at the moment.

She cut through a few of the plants, making certain they wouldn't grow too tall and try to ensnare her as she stepped out of the water, it spilling down her back. "You don't have to fight me. You might be her knight, or whatever, but you can stand aside! Just let me take her out."

Ardus couldn't do that. The Empress was more than just its master, she was its everything. She was the only reason it had to exist. It settled into its fighting stance, its wide sword over its head as if it were a crane, beak ready to pluck at prey. It would break through her saber easily.

She rolled her eyes and dashed forward, jumping over one of the already rotten bodies to strike at it. A flesh. It knew how to avoid that type of attack but it wouldn't allow itself to. It stood in the way and brought its blade down, not hitting her with the edge but the blunt of it, smacking her over the head as the tip of the saber struck its breastplate and folded, her aim knocked awry by the pain.

Her plan hadn't been to hurt it but to frighten it, make it move out of the way, and then she would be able to get to The Empress without such a violent obstacle.

"Don't kill her!" The Empress called out from her hiding place behind her husband's throne, "Just knock her out. I have questions for her."

It nodded in its understanding.

The stranger was shaking her head, rubbing at the place where the blade had struck her. The pommel against her temple would be enough to steal her consciousness. She was a mortal, after all, not even a card. That was curious, It didn't know that normal people could enter this place. It didn't know of any. The attendants of The Empress's court were just constructs, after all.

"Please," she begged, holding her saber out, the long blade pointing directly at Ardus' chest once more. "Please, just let me be. She took everything from me. Let me stop her from taking anything from anyone else."

Ardus grabbed the blade and snapped it, dropping the metal to the floor. She watched how it clanked onto the gold. She slowly raised her head, looking at Ardus, pleading, "You don't know how long it took me to get to this point; how badly I need this."

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It wanted to be good; want her to love it and care for it and be proud. It had no where else to go and would end u back here eventually no matter what it chose to be. It didn't know what it would even do if it left; it wasn't like it could make any decisions for itself. It was a tool to be used and if it left no one would use it. It would fall to the grass and rust.

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