Sol's Shine and the Kingdom of Terra

Chapter 10 Living In The Dark

 Several days have passed since Sol had left the Kingdom of Fire. Lilac Kinroc was given the order to retrieve the prince and return home after defending Barrow. Although all of that meant leaving her father and sister worried sick in a town she currently wasn't defending. On the bright side of things, Lilac had full faith in Crystal and her army along with Ella's tremendous skills in plant magic. Though she couldn't lie to herself about the real reason why she wanted to go. Something about her being overly worried about William was itching her the wrong way and she couldn't figure out why that was. She was worried about everyone that went with Sol as well but it was the orc that stood out the most in her mind.

"Whatever Sol did here... the dwarves really must have made sure to upgrade their security because of him." Lilac said to herself as she rode on top of a fast moving dwarven steam train. Below her and in every train car, including the caboose, was at least a couple dwarven soldiers. Even she was smart enough to tell that something like that wasn't normal. It also helped her to overhear a conversation between the soldiers about a blood wolf that ran amuck a couple days ago at the last train station.

Getting to where Lilac currently was actually took some work. It was all thanks to the search parties sent out by the queen that got her here. They took quick work in following Skoll's trail and all Crystal had to do was pass the information down to Lilac. Lilac was currently laying down, looking up at the cloudy sky. It was one of those days where you weren't sure if it was going to rain or not. "Junistar City..." Lilac said to herself as she remembers hearing the conductor say it earlier.

She propped herself up just to see how close she was to that destination. It was just all within sight. "Now's as good a time as any, I guess." Lilac stood up and dropped down on the platform that held two train cars together and immediately crouched so as to not be seen through a few windows. She took out her axe and banged the hilt against the bolt that kept the two cars together, instantly popping it out. She watched as the rest of the train kept going to Junistar City while the train she was on started to slow down.

By the time the dwarves realized what was going on, none of them could resist coming out to see what happened. Although, Lilac was already waiting to knock each one of them out cold by surprise. This was followed by her tying them all up and leaving them a couple feet away from the tracks. "I'm aware of this underhanded tactic so when you all wake up, feel lucky I decided to let any of you live." After a couple words were said, Lilac made her way to Junistar City on foot in hopes of thinking of a possible way to sneak in. With the way she was approaching, she started to veer away from the tracks, knowing that once the rest of the train arrives, they'll notice the missing cargo and backtrack.

Lilac was alone and intimidated by just the structure of each building for the city. She approached the border and just along the outside where she would hope to think that no one could see her in any line of sight. She was practically walking along a ditch that eventually led her to a flowing stream coming out of a sewer grate along the side of the wall. It was large enough for a person to fit through which was at least fitting for such a large city. The only problem was the bars that covered the side of it, preventing her from getting in. On the other side was a long dark tunnel.

Lilac had to eventually cover her nose, eventually taking in the smell the water was giving off. "I don't want to know what chemicals this stuff has in it. This is just... nasty." She took both of her hands to shake the rusted bars to see if anything would come loose. Nothing. Lilac took her hands off to see that she had just gotten a bunch of green-looking algae over her palms. "Gross!" Lilac did her best to wash away the muck in the water only to find out it wasn't deep enough for that. Instead, she managed to get mud on them as well.