Alex had hear plenty about the Circle during her time chasing it down. It was housing more empowered than she had ever seen together in her life.

She needed to find new allies and she couldn’t trust anyone from the agency or the academies so she needed to find people here. She wasn’t looking forward to the process however, so far the circle had only shown her brutality and force and she wasn’t sure she wanted people like that.

Not that she really had a choice.

Approaching a table 3 burly men sat around it clearly not enjoying the conversation they were having. One looked her way and sat forward grunting as he did.

“Whatcha want.”

“I want to fight.” Alex said, “as soon as possible.”

“No spots. How’d someone like you even get here?” The same man said, standing up towering over Alex who didn’t flinch.

“Same as everyone. I know things.” Alex replied, doing her best to not crack under his stare.

“Well then I’m sure you’d be happy to-“

Alex leapt forward slamming a fist into the man’s head. She had heard about inductions in the circle and by this point was tired of conversation about it. Now was the time for action.

The man stepped back as Alex emptied her pockets and a dozen rocks fell out. She looked them around her knee and leapt forward slamming the knee into the man’s stomach.

He dropped to his knees groaning while the other two men laughed.

“Any more stupid questions or are we going to open the door?” Alex spat grabbing the groaning man’s face.

Rumbling beneath her feet she looked over as the walls began to slide apart revealing a small metal room.

“In there. Be careful others won’t find what you did here nearly as funny as we did.” One of the men said still chuckling as he helped up his friend.