The arena reset.
Fight 4.
Zara of Virex against Seris of Solmara.
The Virex sections gave Zara their aggressive territorial response—the sound they had been producing for their fighters all tournament, the announcement of belief rather than the celebration of it. The Solmara sections gave Seris their focused disciplined acknowledgment. The neutral sections organized themselves around the attention the matchup deserved—two fighters whose abilities had both produced, in their descriptions, the particular tension of an interaction that wasn't clean for either side.
Zara walked out of the Virex tunnel.
