"What happened to you?" the green-eyed boy asked, looking at the beautiful broken man before him.
"I was left in the darkness, so darkness is what I became."
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—Dylan awakens. He looks around, Harry and Lily fast asleep, but no Zayn. His eyebrows furrowed. Where could Zayn be? The smell of smoke caught his attention and he walks outside. He looks up to see the sky blazing with burning arrows all raining down on the village. His eyes widen.
Zayn, moving away from the village, spins to see the arrows lighting up the sky behind him. He races toward the village with only one thing on his mind: Dylan and Harry.
Dylan re-enters the hut just as a flaming arrow pierces through the thatch and sticks next to Lily's sleeping head. He pushes Lily away from the fire and grabs the arrow.
"Harry!" Dylan yells, "Wake up!"
And he does. Harry wakes up with a jolt, his heart nearly jumping out of his chest. He sees the arrow in Dylan's hand and he immediately understands—they had been found. Anna screams because a mercenary raced into the hut. On impulse Dylan backhand stabs him in the leg with the arrow and he tumbles, flames burning his clothes. He stares at him for a moment, his face, his pain. Flashbacks of his past come rushing back to him, slowly and then all at once. Blood. Hands. Harsh rain. A knife. Gray eyes. An ear-piercing scream. Tears spill from his eyes and his breathing is uneven, he is hyperventilating. Harry is yelling his name and shaking him, trying to get him out of his flashbacks, "Dylan! Dylan, we have to go!" He's pulled back into reality and lets himself get pulled by Harry out of the now burning hut.
Finn and his hunters scour the inferno on their horses. "Run, rats, run." he chuckles, "Find him!" Liam and Niall look around the burning village in panic, hoping to see their friend.
Harry runs with Dylan, following Lily and Anna when he sees a fearsome mercenary leap off his horse and stride towards them.
"Run!" he yelled to Lily and Anna.
Harry faces off with the mercenary. He does as he's been taught and waits for him to approach. When he's close enough to grab him, he slashes at him with the knife. The huge mercenary knocks him to the ground and advances on him, until an arrow strikes him in the shoulder. He falls, revealing a young warrior holding a bow. It's Liam with Niall by his side. Harry stares at them through the flames, with a mixture of recognition and uncertainty. It's as if for a moment everything stops as he comes face to face with something from the past. Almost like a ghost. Or a vision. He nods to them in recognition.
Suddenly, Dylan pulls Harry away, as they move through the smoke and the fire. Liam and Niall start to follow, a curtain of smoke swirling around them.
Zayn arrives to see the village in flames. He rushes to the center or the village, pulling a mercenary off his horse and running him through with his own sword, then fighting and killing two more mercenaries as he makes his way forward.
Finn sits astride his horse like a demon king in the firelight. He spots Liam and Niall in the distance, searching for Harry and rides towards him.
Harry looks back through the distant flames as he and Dylan run, when suddenly powerful arms grab him. He flails with the knife but it's only Zayn.
