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22:04 hours post-great shock
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A beautiful woman pulled herself out from under a fallen slab of stone, her smooth dark skin dusted with ash.
She knew what had to be done.
Yulia began to stagger through the ruins of what had once been the grand headquarters of Liberty for the Bounded.
And now look at it...
reduced to nothing.
Her bloodied legs shook, and she fell to the ground: only a few feet away from the thing she knew she must retrieve.
Her hand reached out, shaking, and clamped around the smooth metal sphere.
The king's orb.
Yulia laughed softly, stroking it with her thumb.
It began to glow with soft purple light.
"Identification Required."
Yulia brough her iris to the scanner.
A flash of white light... and than nothing.
"Bates, Yulia J. Access denied."
Denied?
Denied!?
Yulia growled, gripping the orb tighter in her hand.
Fine.
If it wouldn't open willingly to her she would make it open.
The woman crawled out of the pit, staggering into the woods- the silver orb grasped in her bloodied and dust-covered fingers.
The meadow seemed lifeless...
but trapped under iron bars and slabs of crumbled stone a girl with bright blue eyes was curled in a corner, crying.
Her family's bodies were strewn around her, it was hopeless.
Nobody knew she was here.
Nobody would save her.
But than... footsteps.
The stone was pushed away, the metal bars lugged aside.
A set of dark eyes met hers and a tanned hand reached out to her.
"Come. Join us."
Wiping her tears away with the back of her hand Emma reached out, taking the hand in her own.
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For those of you who don't remember, Emma is Amara's younger sister.
Amara's family was captured by Liberty for the Bounded to be used as bargaining chips if necessary.
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