Chapter 1: Encounter

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Beads of sweat are running down her forehead.

The sun is up, it's high noon.

She had been used to the blinding rays of light and the humid air that hangs around that part of the land. After all she grew up in the dessert.

That big ball of fire millions of miles up in the heavens had always burned ever so brightly.

Today again, it did, but unforgivingly so.

She must have used all her energy, because she can already feel her knees buckle.

She had been running around the market place trying to look for food. Food that she promised to bring back to the hungry stomachs waiting for her at their village.

Yes, the village. The village who had been so kind to keep and care for her. The village who had been family to her when she lost her own under a siege when she was only a child.

She's been through a lot, what harm could a little sunshine do?

With that in mind, she continued. Bumping shoulders with the busy bodies around her.

Then a loud thud followed by crashing sounds came from behind her.

She turned around to check on it, when she laid eyes on one shiny band of gold at the arm of the man helping the poor old lady gather her broken pots that were meant to be displayed at her small and tattered stall.

She'd seen those before.

Yes. Who would be dumb enough not to recognize the gold arm bands that the nobles wore?

The hunting is over. She found her prey. Yes, the perfect prey.

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