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"Grand Master! We've arrived!" Ambered greeted as she brought Sibley in the office, "Just in time, Sucrose brought me Albedo's notes too, it says your name is Sibley, correct?"Jean asked with a gentle smile, "Yeah that's me." Sibley confirmed, "Perfect, and it also says you're... Mute?" Jean looked at Sibley with confusion, "That was a prank I tried to do, got discovered soon after." Sibley explained, to which Jean crossed over the mute part on the notes, "Everything else is about your mental and physical condition, seems you're doing well." Jean said as she put the notes down, "Her skin does feel like it's freezing though." Amber brought up, "Hmm? It says here that Albedo's medicine had a great effect." Jean pointed out, "Seems like it ran out." Sibley shrugged as she took a seat.

Sibey looked at her Freedom Matrix and the apps that are on it to get a general overview, "What's that thing? It look a little painful." Jean questioned spotting the device, "It says it's a Freedom Matrix, tested it out for the first time today, but I still don't know everything it can do." Sibley explained, "Freedom Matrix... I should ask Lisa to look into it." Jean thought outloud, "You may not know everything it does, but letting you fly is awesome!" Amber exclaimed in excitement, "Fly?" Jean repeated curiously, "That sounds interesting... If you don't mind, can you come with me? There's something I need to do, we can talk on the way." Jean offered as she stood up and waited for a reply.

Having literally nothing else to do, Sibley got up and decided to follow Jean, "Oh! Amber, you should go help the other knights take down the barricades that were put up." Jean requested, "On it!" Amber exclaimed as rushed out, "Where are we going?" Sibley asked Jean who responded with "Just bringing something back to where it belongs.", this didn't exactly help with Sibley's confusion, but they kept talking on the way to the Cathedral, "So you're basically what the Knights are to Mondstat, but on a much bigger scale?" Jean summarized, "Yes that's basically it, or at least what I understood it is." Sibley confirmed as they got in and saw Venti, Aether and Paimon waiting for at least Jean.

"Spent some time getting to know each other?" Aether asked, "Something like that, it had to be cut short though since this is more important." Jean explained, "And I guess it involves Barbatos here?" Sibley asked looking at Venti who looked away since the nearer nuns turned to look at them in both surprise and shock, "You know that he's Barbatos?" Paimon asked in equal surprise to the nuns, "This thing does tons of weird stuff." Sibley explained simply, "Knowing or not, that's not why we're here." Jean reminded, "Right." Venti nodded as he turned to a nun, "If you please Barbara, bring it back to it's pedestal." Jean requested.

Profile 9

Name: Barbara Pegg. 

Age: 17.

Occupation: Deaconess of the Church.

Element: Hydro.

Venti went to hand the (broken) lyre to Barbara, she looked a bit disappointed that it was broken, but then shook her head, "I can't possibly take back Lord Barbatos' instrument when he personally came to retrieve it!" Barbara refused, "It's just an instument, I may have used it for thousands of years, but it's still just that." Venti insisted as he shoved it into Barbara's arms, "W-Well... If it's really fine... But it's all broken now! I don't think I can put it back on display like this!" Barbara pointed out, "Let me try something." Sybley requested as she took the Lyre from Barbara and scanned it like she did with Venti.

After the scan was complete, the Matrix's screen showed how the lyre looked before breaking and said what materials it's made of, "Wood, silver and- yeah, duh, string, you got wood and silver somewhere?" Sibley asked, wondering if she could do something about it, "Uh? I guess there are some old instruments we don't use anymore." Barbara confirmed as she went to get some, "What are you planning?" Aether asked, curious as to what thee plot was, "If it works you'll understand." Sibley replied as she started forming a machine that had the scanner she used earlier and some tools mounted on it.

Barbara returned soon later with a silver trumpet and a small lute, "These should do." Sibley said as she took the instruments and put them ina compartment on the machine and then placed the lyre inside it, "Paimon's not sure as to what this is supposed to do." She admitted as Sibley lifted the Matrix closer to her face to easily operate the machine, "Is that supposed to fix the lyre? Because if it does you could even turn it into a business!" Venti suggested as he saw the machine turn on and started shaping the wood and silver into the proper shapes, with a bar quickly running out on it. "It's incredible..." Jean awed at the scene, not ever having seen something even remotely like this.

When the machine finished, Sibley took the fixed lyre out, making the machine disappear and making the unused materials fall to the ground, Barbara quickly snatched the lyre to inspect it and hugged it when seeing it looked brand new, "I don't know how you did it, but thank you!" She exclaimed as she went on to put the lyre back in it's place, "Well then, since that's dealt with, I should take my leave now!" Venti said before running off and out of the Church with Aether and Paimon on his tail.

"Where are they going?" Sibley asked, "I think they wanted to ask him some stuff before getting caught up in Mondstat's problems." Jean explained, "I see, if you don't mind I'll chase after them." Sibley said and not even waiting for a reply, she ran after the three, "I might be starting to get a better idea of her personality..." Jean muttered with a facepalm.

Now outside Sibley noticed how it turned night, "Did the reconstruction take that long?" She wondered as she looked around for the other three and spotted them getting attacked, "It hasn't even been a minute!" Sibley exclaimed catching the attention of who seemed to be the leader, a tall blonde woman with a mask.

Profile 10

Name: Rosalyne-Kruzchka Lohefalter/La Signora.

Age: Around 500.

Occupation: 8th of the Eleven Fatui Harbringers.

Element: Cryo (Delusion)/Pyro

Signora narrowed her eyes at the sight of Sibley, "This is a new one... Are you a new recruit of the Knights? Even then it wouldn't matter, you still wouldn't-" Signora was saying, but got interrupted by Sibley lamenting "Why are the villains always hot!?" and this caught Signora really off guard, "Excuse me!? She's beating us to a pulp!?" Venti pointed out from his frozen position, "Doesn't mean she's not hot!" Sibley retorted before forming a sword and shield thanks to the Matrix, "Interesting..." Signora thought to herself as she got ready to fight.

The battle begun with Signora launghing ice spikes at Sibley, who blocked them with the shield, but got pushed back pretty far, "Need a way to keepmy footing..." She thought before the Freedom Matrix said "Cryo energy absorbed and ready for use!", Sibley ignored it since now it wasn't important, instead she tried to turn the sword into a bear trap and held it through a handle located at the bottom, "This girl might be some piece of work!" Signora mentally told herself seeing how immediate the change was.

Sibley looked at the bear trap and tried thrusting it in Signora's direction, launching it with a spring and a bar appeared on the handle, "This is timed!?" Sibley thought seeing the bar run out, but stopping the moment the bear trap bit Signora making her let out a pained groan, and then the bar started going back up again as it the spring started coiling back up, "So it's not just energy!" Sibley realized, not noticing how Signora froze the spring and managed to break it with a well placed strike, causing the whole thing to dematerialize.

With the bear trap gone, Signora was free to move again, but that didn't stop the blood from flowing out of where the bear trap bit. To avoid any isseu, Signora froze her wound to stop the blood from coming out, "You might be more dangerous than you look!" Signora complimented Sibley, "And you're more than just a pretty face!" Sibley complimented back, "Okay enough with the flirting!" Venti lamented. Signora was a little distracted by this, giving time to Sibley to form something else.

By the time Signora put her full attention back to her, Sibley formed a cannon that shot a giant ball of energy causing the bar on the cannon to deplete insantly and disappear, but the nergy ball kept flying towards Signora, she managed to move out of the way in time before it landed, but it did hit the ground, causing a massive explosion that made a huge hole in it filled with rubble. This display caused everyone in the area to look shocked, even Sibley, "I did that?" She wondered as she looked at the destruction, while Signora realized that she shouldn't be messing around anymore so she created a blizzard to disrupt everyone's view and took the occasion to escape.

"Running? Really?" Sibley thought before spotting Aether on the ground and Venti about to pass out, "Suspicious hot lady later, getting a healer now." Sibley planned before trying to use the scanner for someone who can heal, forming the scope she used to scan Venti, she made it spin around and lock in the direction of a healer, which is in the Church she was just in.

Snezhnaya, Zapolyarny Palace.

When Signora arrived back, she was no short than in critical condition, it took all of the best medics in the palace to heal her back up to the point where she would at least survive, "What could have possibly caused this damage?" the doctors wondered, not having heard of a weapon or beast capable of inflicting such wounds, "Lord Dottore, we are stumped, we went over all weapon catalogues and predator encyclopedia we could find, but none looks fit to do something like this..." One of the doctor reported back to the cyan haired Harbringer, "I'll take it from here, you go report to The Jester." He instructed as he got his tools ready.

Profile 11

Name: Il Dottore/Zandik.

Age: ???

Occupation: Second of the Eleven Fatui Harbringers.

Element: ???

"*Sighs* Of course they couldn't find an answer with the sources they werelooking at, this type of wound can only be caused by a bear trap... But even then it shouldn't be this bad..." He thought outloud as he stitched Signora's wound shut and then administered a serum that would help Signora heal faster, thanks to it she was also able to wake up much faster than without it, "Don't move, it'll hurt a lot if you do." Dottore warned as he applied disinfectant to the stitches, "I have no idea what I fought... She kept creating weapons out of nowhere..." Signora explained with what little breaths she could take, "Out of nowhere? Did she have a vision of some kind?" Dottore asked confused, "No I... I didn't see any..." Signora replied before falling back asleep needing to rest.

Dottore finshed disinfecting the wound and got up were he saw someone standing in the doorway, "I heard she got beat up, but this is a little more than I expected." The guy said as he looked over Signora's injured body, "Don't tell me you want to try and fight whoever did this, because it would be stupid even by your standards Tartaglia." Dottore reprimented.

Profile 12

Name: Tartaglia/Childe/Ajax.

Age: 21.

Occupation: 11th of the Eleven Fatui Harbringers.

Element: Electro (Delusion)/ Hydro.

Childe snickered at the suggestion, "I think I'll stick to meeting them, it looks like it hurts, a lot." He said, not even considering the notion, "Either way we should have a small change of plans, Signora was supposed to go to Lyiue after all, but I doubt she can in this condition." He brought up, "And the Knave is assigned to Fontaine... Maybe Columbina would be the best choice." Dottore thought outloud as to what to do, "We need to wait for what the Tsaritsa chooses, but eitherway I should head out now." Childe excused himself as he went away.

Looking back at Signora, Dottore sighed again "If I was able to get my hands won the one who did this much damage... I wonder if i could replicate it..." He muttered with a dark smirk crawling on his face.

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