hear the patriots shout / ascendants visit + sephiroth needed

[Jiyu Simul Stamus]

Luckily she was a cold statue, otherwise she may have given away how troublesome the pharaoh arriving was. Just like normal? The lion displayed less tact that even herself which was fairly difficult since she didn't actually understand the emotions or motives of others, just guessed based off what she had been taught by her friends, siblings and other family in the past. If tact was bad enough to cause her to take notice of it, Jiyu couldn't imagine how bad it looked to others. Clearly the Ascendants had an issue with sacrifice and he just stated things so bluntly offering nothing that could affect how the other group viewed their particular actions. Thankfully Sepiroth trusted and respected her so hopefully he would not take offense to her speaking in an attempt to fix some of the damage from the bomb he'd just blown up on their allies.

"Though there is a little more to it than just surviving hardships." she started speaking in her monotone voice, not emotion just words she hoped would do something no matter how small it may be. "You see one of The Aspects, Ingnis, has domain over fire, he has several times in the past set things on fire in our territory for his own amusement." More than once, she had been around when some members had to occasionally stop those random fires he set. "Considering he's an actual deity we can't just kill him. However, if he receives an offering of violently spilled blood every so often he leaves us alone." they had to share their territory with the aspects, but they had to share the world with the other groups there had to be some sort of balance achieved somewhere, she was not about to see the Rosebloods ganged up on because someone decided to over dress their practices. "So when we haven't had a blood spilling fight on our territory for a while, we occasionally have to resort to sacrifices every so often to protect ourselves." Especially because of Sep she couldn't claim they didn't, but she could adjust how it was viewed perhaps. "However, it's not nearly as ritualistic or harsh as you may think, we don't do anything like target children, bind the animal, or do something like sic a tiger on a blue bird, they have every chance to defend themselves and attempt escape, we don't even gang up on them, its one on one, an actual fight. It's not like its something the group in itself enjoys, in fact I know several members are far from fond of it, simply put it's necessity otherwise this whole place would be on fire." which was the last thing they needed. Hopefully one day through research she could find some other way to sate Ingnis, but for now this was how they had to do it. 

"We've never tried to hide it but we also saw no reason to shove the necessity of how we occasionally have to keep ourselves safe in the face of our allies." they were being completely honest with them now, and so was she as she had never been aware of any attempts to hide the activity. It was just they didn't talk about it because they were not some nutcase fanatics simply a group trying to survive sharing their territory with an incredibly violent and volatile god. Jiyu just wished she could remember when the next festival was, perhaps if they could invite their ally and show them Ignis, if he showed himself, it would also help.