Book 2 Season's Change Spring's Revenge

Part 48 The Fall*

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The following part contains graphic and mature content. It is recommended for mature audiences ONLY.

This chapter may contain triggers. If you are triggered by sexual assault/rape please do not read this chapter. Just skip over it.

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Sexual assault is a crime. This chapter, and anything I have ever written or will ever write, is NOT intended to make light of that.

Shelly Keller

Katana kicked and fussed and scratched and pulled at her captors with part of her strength. Her hair came loose in the battle, but they ignored the fact that she was a Dark Faye. She had a lot more strength and skill than she gave them. She was a Dark Faye, yet they believed that she could so easily be captured? They must be extremely stupid humans to think that even the lowliest Dark Elf was defenseless. She growled and spit at them. They tied her hands behind her back and wrapped her tightly in a blanket. Her mind wandered as she squirmed and struggled. She was thrown over the shoulder of one of the bigger men. It almost triggered a horrible memory for her. She busied her mind with other thoughts as she worked her bindings a bit loose. Maybe they thought that her human lover made her soft or that she was dependent upon him somehow. They surely believed that he could be so easily be subdued. "Settle down, Girl or we will have to hurt you." She hissed at them as they carried her down the stairs. She could feel the cool morning air. The smell of the street hit her nose through the blanket. It was pungent and foul. She noted how it changed as she was carried through the city. How had they managed to carry her over their shoulders in the light of day? Did the guards not care that these awful men and that woman carried another person wrapped in a blanket over their shoulders to wherever they were taking her? Did they honestly not? She was beginning to feel the hopelessness that Avriel had spoken of. The people in authority did not care whatsoever what happened to the people that they deemed less than them. She could see Avriel's conflict quite a bit more clearly.

Avriel was up the moment he heard the last boot step on the stair. He threw open the window to see Dash waiting on the roof across from it. Two of the others flanked him, then moved off. He threw on his good cloak, secured Othello, and Katana's weapons to Fet and climbed out the window. Dash jumped across the narrow gap between the buildings. As soon as Fet made the roof they were off following their trackers through the city on her rooftops. It seemed much like forever and a day as they moved, the trackers were following the mercenaries that had Katana. They moved from district to district until they ended up in the warehouse district near the docks. They watched as the mercenaries carried Katana into a very tall warehouse. "I will go." Avriel signed to Dash who just looked at him like he had lost his mind. "I will go to the back of the building." He repeated quietly. We need to find a way in. Do you know this place?" It was a tall building, but it did not appear to be very wide or long. "How many levels?"

"Yes. Four. There are windows on each level. The way the roof --" He used his hands to indicate the roof that was the top of each level. The levels got smaller as they went up so that each section had a section of flat roof around it. "There will be guards."

"Then I will go first and make sure you don't have to worry about them." Dash just looked confused. Maybe he did not wear that fancy armor just to look important after all. "Trust me." Avriel smiled. "Send Fet when you hear the bird call."

"There are no birds."

"I know." Then Avriel was gone without so much as a sound.

Dash and the other orphans waited for his call. He was relieved when he heard it and set Fet on his course to the building roof.