the four horsemen

Reunion

**

The sky was blue, clear, the sun was high, everything was good.

Neila was laying on the grass, enjoying the start of summer, the sound of birds singing in the morning.

She always loved birds, so free, so beautiful.

She wanted to be like them, and now she was.

But she still had something to do, somewhere to be.

She spent the first weeks of her newly granted freedom struggling to find something to eat and somewhere to sleep, but she quickly got used to it.

She quickly understood that people like to feel better, and one of the ways is to help a little girl that's hungry in the streets and getting beaten by some thugs.

They would give money to the thugs so they would leave her alone, and then give her a good meal.

Of course this only worked in the middle classed streets, too low and people don't have anything for you, too high and they see you like no more than a cockroach, a parasite dirtying their floor.

But this was only temporary, the others started getting greedy, they wanted more.

So she left, they tried to force her of course.

And they failed, no one would chain her ever again.

She wanted to find her family again, and started looking for them.

Then one day she realised, there's probably others that were like her.

So she decided she would find as much of them as she could, before finding her family.

**

Neila and Mia waited until they were sure the fights were finished, then they rushed.

They first arrived at where Scaf was.

The scene was bloody, everything around them was red.

Scaf included.

Neila rushed to him, checking if he was still breathing.

He was.

It was shallow, slow, but it was there.

"We have to do something,'' she said turning toward Mia.

But she wasn't there.

Neila tried to find from where he was bleeding, but there was so much blood she couldn't see which one was his and which one wasn't.

Then Scaf raised his finger, slowly, showing her the main places he was bleeding from.

She got a piece of cloth out of her pouch, and started cutting it into small bandages and put them in the places where the bleeding was the largest.

"We gotta get you out of here, now," she tried to grab him from the shoulder to lift him but he didn't budge.

He was too heavy so she could lift him alone, and too tired to even move a single muscle.

He opened his mouth, trying to talk, but she stopped him, "Don't waste your energy on that, I'll find a way"

"Ro...sa...", the word finally escaping his mouth, and Neila opened her eyes in realisation.

At the same time, she heard noises from behind them, when she turned it was Mike, with a few men, probably Mia's.

They started getting closer, and two went toward Scaf, but Neila already had her dagger out.