Sea Shadow (General Kirigan & Nikolai Lantsov)

Chapter 2

Her

Kaida woke up with the first rays of sun, it was early, really early, and it was the perfect hour to get out of there.

She walked to the closet and took almost the same things of yesterday except for the shirt that was navy. She looked at herself in the mirror and saw her front shoulder with the birthmark she had always had, with a strange figure. It was an unclosed triangle with two circles in the middle and the smaller one crossed out and three dots between each line of the unfinished triangle. She didn't understand why, but she didn't even care very much. She tied her hair in a ponytail and turned around to face the window. She was determined to leave the Little Palace. Quickly, she opened the window and without thinking, she started climbing. When she was already at the edge of the window she jumped to the grass and rolled a little bit so she wouldn't hurt herself. She stood up quickly and looked to the sides to check that no one was there she started to run in the direction of the woods. She was running as fast as she could when a voice behind her caught her attention.

"Hey, come back! Someone take her!" a guard shouted in the window of the room she was seconds before. Another voice, now on her left, caught her attention. It was a boy running after a black horse, it was beautiful.

Kaida saw that the guards were already running after her so she decided to run towards the horse.

"Hey, beautiful" she said standing in front of the horse and raising her hand calmly so that the horse would not be frightened "It seems that you also want to get out of here" she said touching the horse's head calmly "What if we help each other?" The horse didn't move so she walked slowly to the side of the horse and held on to its neck carefully, checking that it was not frightened, and when she saw that the horse gave her permission, she climbed on to it and she give a big smile "Good boy" she said touching her neck with love. The horse whinnied in annoyance and lowered its head while lightly tapping the ground with its foot "Sorry, girl" she said with a smile.

"Stop, stop. Someone stop her!" the guards shouted getting closer to her.

"Okay, it's time to go" Kaida took the horse's mane between her fingers for support and gently tapped the horse's feet to get it to start riding. She took the ponytail of her hair letting the wind hit her in the face and threw her hair backwards. She looked back to see the guards in the distance running after her, making her smile shyly, but when she turned her head to the front another human figure in a black horse made her stop abruptly, it was the General who was standing in a black horse in front of her. Her smile disappeared "Crap"

"I'm just going to tell you ones, get off of that horse" he said with a serious voice. Kaida looked at him defiantly, without any intention of getting off of the horse. The General, noticing that, decided to use his small science and all around them started to get darker. Like the other time, she wasn't scared, but the horse started to move with fear.

"Shh, shh, It's okay" she told the horse trying to calm it down "Stopped, you are scaring her" she said madly. The General just looked at her and the shadows started to get closer to her making the horse more anxious. Kaida, noticing that the General wasn't going to stop and she didn't want to make the horse scared she decided to do what she was asked for "Okay, okay, I'll do it, but stop, you are scaring her" she said getting off of the horse "Happy?" she said when she was already down.

"General Kirigan" one of the Guards said when all of them stopped running "She-she, we-" he said trying to recover his breath making Kaida roll her eyes.

"Take Miss Deveraux to the war room at the Little Palace, and make sure she doesn't escape. I'll order to put two guards on her window until I think of something to put on the windows" he said with a monotone voice.