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Though she may relish the thrill of battle, such ceaseless conflict as Athenia Adominian has endured inevitably leaves physical and mental scars, including some especially vivid dreams. More nights than naught she flies to her feet from a dead sleep, believing herself locked in mortal combat, only to realize after thoroughly pulverizing all the nearby furniture that it was only in her head. While these “episodes” are the usual fare on most nights, occasionally her battered body’s own desires bleed into her subconscious battlefield, turning an imagined one-against-many fight into a very different kind of fantasy…