"Hey, Antonio, you did good out there man," Lythero praised his friend the moment he was returned to the rest area. "I didn't know you had it in you."
"Not gonna lie, I didn't know if I had it in me either," Antonio seriously replied. "But now I know one thing for certain, I have a lot more questions than before."
"Well, welcome to the club," Lythero informed him. "Because now I have questions about our friend Olstenna over there. By the way, are you going to get up from the ground or nah?"
"Working on it, I am very sore."
...
The next pair of combatants that the Blue Mirror of War chose to fight to the death were, surprisingly, the two members of each team that weren't human.
Even more surprising though, was the fact that they were both members of the same ancestry.
[Oh my, a pair of Aetherii. Now this is going to be rare treat.]