Target Aquired (Currently Editing)

Chapter 1-A Different Point Of View

Just for your information, this is someone (or something? :p) else. Alright, I'll tell you. It's that twelve year old girl.

Important note: Sun Moon is dawn, and Moon Sun is dusk.

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Run. The single word hammers itself over and over into my brain, in time with my sore and weary feet as they slowly-too slowly-carry me across this blasted terrain. I trip over loose rocks and skid over gravel and tiny pebbles, but I know better than to stop and tend to the growing amount of cuts, scrapes and bruises I have on my legs and knees. They are going to find me, and before they will, I need to have delivered my precious cargo. With a brief sigh of relief, I spot a small cave-more of a hollow in the rocky landscape, really-created by a small gap between stacks of rocks and piles of boulders that make up most of the dreary landscape I have been fleeing through for the past two days. After briefly glancing up at the cloudless sky, I burrow into the hollow as fast as I can, wary of any potential attackers. After about an hour of tense silence and waiting, my eyelids begin to droop, and my head slowly drops to rest on my arms as I slowly fall asleep, curled up in that cramped hollow.

My eyes snap open, and I realize that it is already Mid-Sun, and I have wasted precious daytime by sleeping. This is not good. I had only managed to get myself a Sun's head start by escaping earlier than I planned to and running nonstop for as long as I could manage. With that gloomy thought on my mind, I slowly start to make my way out of this hollow and back towards base camp-back towards safety. It is already Moon-Sun when I begin to feel that something is wrong. Maybe it is the shifting of the wind, or the sudden silence of the Night-creatures, but I instantly know that I MUST be back in shelter-preferably base camp-before the time of Mid-Moon. If I wasn't in shelter then, I know that I will be better off dead. So I immediately pick up my pace, not caring anymore if I slip or not, only caring if I will fall and waste time getting up or not. On and on I run, racing the moon as it slowly climbs up the giant ladder called Sky. I sigh in relief as the entrance to our base camp comes into view. I use my last reserves of energy to sprint the last meters toward the entrance of our base, then in one well practiced and fluid motion, drop and roll under the stone overhang and leaping up onto the top of a hidden ledge, where my brother-Auden-is waiting, wearing his usual outfit of a random match of scruffy clothes, coupled with his amused grin.

"Why so early? Oh, let me guess..." Here he paused, tapping his slender fingers against his tilted head in mock thought before continuing: "You had to escape early because you nearly got caught again?"

"Shut up, Auden. You get all that easy stuff, where you just hide in here and take all the credit for any success that was even remotely connected to you, and you know that" I snap at him good-naturedly, albeit with a little annoyance.

"Awww, little sister in a bad mood today? I'm sorry, but you're just going to have to bear with it" He replies cheekily, pretending to become serious towards the end.

Snorting, I lightly shove him aside and head towards the Crystal Cave, where I am going to drop off my 'borrowed' parcel. "If you want to helpful, go outside and check to see if I am being tracked. It won't be any good for me to be assassinated now, would it?"

"Geez, so tense, Lyria" He grumbles teasingly as he disappears back the way we came, easily weaving his way through the many rocky ledges and overhanging structures.

Shaking my head, I make my way across a small bridge of marble as it weaves and winds in between many other different ledges and bridges made of various minerals and rocks. Spotting the unmistakable glimmer of the entrance to the Crystal Cave, I quickly leap across the small gap between the marble and the glinting crystal ledge that juts out from the entrance of the cave. Landing more heavily then I expected, I take the time to check on my parcel, in case it got damaged as I landed. Looking up, I marvel at the fact that the beautiful cave I am standing in front of was created by nature herself. Soaring pillars of multicolored crystal reach up from a floor of dark, black crystal, meeting a roof of clear, polished looking crystal that appears to drip downwards in elegant flowing lines. The crystal glimmers from the light of several gigantic columns of amber Frozenfire crystals. I quickly get to work, striding over to a particularly strange crystal pillar-one that seems to have the image of a roaring dragon in its green depths. After glancing around quickly to make sure nothing is out of place, I tap a spot on the crystal where the eye of the roaring dragon would be, revealing the entrance to a very well hidden hollow in the green crystal. As quickly as possible, I carefully jam the contents of the package inside the hollow and tap the 'eye' of the dragon once again to seal it, resolving to work on it with Auden when I have finished recovering my energy. Frowning, I notice that Auden has taken more than five minutes to briefly check for any trackers-longer than he normally takes, unless he has found one and is...dealing with it appropriately. Even though I know Auden is more than capable of handling himself with a tracker, there is still a small part of me that is worried it might be something worse-more than a thousand times worse...such as an Assassin. Shaking the thoughts out of my head and trying to stay optimistic, I briskly walk towards the entrance, heading to where Auden last went. I am so preoccupied in the task of staying optimistic, I don't even notice the person behind me before I feel two strong hands clamping down on my shoulders, effectively preventing me from going to where I last saw my brother head towards.

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A slight cliffhanger for you guys there ;) What do you think the package is?

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