"The Winner is Jillian St Palen," Marla announced, and the crowd cheered; though the cheer was less defeaning than Ellen's battle, it is still louder than one imagined seeing the mood of the crowd when the battle began.
Jill came back with applause and received in the participant's area too, and she deserved it just as much as Ellen deserved hers.
She fought the battle as it should be; if she wanted to, she would have easily used a difference in power to blast Joana into the forcefield, but she did not; she used her senses to find Joana and beat her, and it is not easy to one when Empire of Mist activated.
"The battle was amazing; it might not seem like it seeing there were no earth-shattering moves, but it was."
"It is not easy to find the person once Empire of Mist activated; I myself would have taken more than fifteen minutes to find Participant Joana," Marla said, the first time really saying something meaningful about the battle.
