Pride

Chapter 7

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"Where does Pride live?", I asked Black as we walked into Seteriel.

"she is the mayor of Seteriel.", Black said.

"What! Wouldn't he be hiding.", I exclaimed drawing drawing curious stares from other people on the road.

"pride is a she." Black said

"Okay, but that doesn't explain why she isn't she in hiding." I told my dense partner.

"she knows that hiding in plain sight is the best idea." he explained.

"Uh-huh, even if that's the case where does she live?"

"sir where does the mayor of this town live?", Black turned to a nearby man wearing dark sunglasses and holding a cane.

"Looking for Pride?", he said facing the wrong way

"No!", I said defensively, "Whose Pride we're just looking for the mayor of Seteriel."

"Uh-huh", He said disbelief in his voice, "She lives there." He pointed at a run-down hotel

"She lives in a hotel?"

"Oops", he spun around and pointed pointed at a large manor which was on top of a hill on the far side of the town, "She lives there."

"I kind of see why you call her Pride." I whispered to Black. We head off towards her manor after thanking the man.

"how do we get in?", Black asked

"I'm thought you'd come with that part of the plan- wait I've got an idea.", I said.

...

"How may I help you.", the butler asked in a monotone which rivals Blacks.

"My dad just got laid off from work so I'm selling cookies. Would the master of this house like some?" I asked

"Let me go ask the esteemed master of this house.", the butler shut the door in my face. A few minutes later he came back and said, "Follow me."

We walked through the house which had very realistic stuffed Aivels and Aivel heads hanging on the wall. When we'd entered Pride's office, which was filled with swords, and the butler had shut the door behind him I clicked my pen and held it over my clipboard, which I'd borrowed from a kind citizen and said to Pride, who was polishing a sword, "Would you like some cookies?"

"What kinds do you have?", she asked putting the sword in it's place on the wall

"We have chocolate chip, sugar cookies, triple chocolate, and snickerdoodles."

"Hmm, I think I'll have a dozen sugar, half-dozen snickerdoodles, and-", Her sentence was cut short by Black, who had a gun loaded with tranquilizer darts pressed to her neck, saying, "move and i'll shoot."

Pride started reaching for one of the many swords lining the wall. Black started to pull the trigger but before he could finish Pride ducked which put me directly in the line of fire. I tried to jump to the side but the dart hit me in the arm which I suppose is better than my forehead. Black was preparing to fire at Pride again, but Pride had succeeded in grabbing a sword which he swung at Black's hand. He missed but he did succeed in knocking Black's gun across the room I started stumbling towards it. My knees hit the ground as blackness crept onto the edge of my vision. I crawled for the gun while the blackness began to cover my vision. I crumpled on top of the gun as I blacked out.