Chapter 4:

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"Elaine!!!" my best friend yelled from down stairs. "You know I don't like it when you call me that, Katherine!" I yelled in response. "I'll get you!" Kat said as I heard her run up the stairs, my door opened and then I felt someone land on me. "AAAA!" I scream/laughed. I said,"I'll beat you outside!" We both sprinted outside, my bare feet hitting the cool rocks. It felt cool out here, but then again it was always nice out here. The only time it wasn't was when the Heaters came and took a few of our people. The Heaters are the people from Farana that have the power of the flame. They wouldn't be able to take me. I would take them out first.
We ran and played tag, and other little kid games with the younger kids that lived on our tier. Then, Kat went home and so did I. I was tired and I wanted to sleep so I found my sleeping shoes and put them on. I looked down and saw that my blue pajamas. While humans advanced communication we advanced clothing, housing, and footwear. For example, when I put my shoes on I get a perfectly matching out fit to go with it, and my house is connected by huge vacuum tubes to all my friends houses. So I can get to their houses faster. Communication wise, we mostly just yell or send notes through the tubes.
I walked into my cold bedroom and brushed out my perfectly straight black hair until it was silky. Then I drifted off to sleep.
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It feels sorta warm outside today, and that's not a good thing. The Heaters are definitely on my tier. They normally take one or two people from each tier. So there's not a big chance they would take me. I live on tier four the second to the poorest, but most populated tier. We are all trained to be warriors and to fight with our power. We can only fight other waters though, because we can't just bring over a bunch of Heaters here to fight us. Here is the list that everyone has to have, it explains what each tier is.
Tier 5: On this tier lives the poorest people, they are mostly servants or workers who do hard labor for the other tiers.
Tier 4: This tier is specifically for trained warriors so they can be prepared to fight the Heaters attempting to attack higher tiers.
Tier 3: This is where the Market is, all of the merchants and traders live there.
Tier 2: This is where the people that are just beneath being royalty live. They are doctors, lawyers, teachers and so on.
Tier 1: This is where the Royalty of Renan resides.
Anyway, I have to stay inside, because if I go out someone will give me orders to go do something or guard some one. I'm not really in the mood to do that, plus it's not really gonna do anything. They will find a way to get them eventually. It's getting even warmer. I think I might need to get ready for a fight. If they come, well they won't take me without a fight.
Someone knocked on the door, but I don't know if it's the Heaters or a person here to tell me what to do. Well, I guess I ought to be prepared for the worst and open the door. I pulled water out of the air and surrounded my hands, because if they get my hands then I can't use my power and without it I'm helpless. I opened the door and saw about five Heater warriors and some girl who seemed to be leading them. She had green eyes and was sorta tan with long, darkish auburn hair. She was about 5 and a half feet tall and had her cartilage pierced with a tattoo in a language I could not understand.
She nodded her towards me and I shot water knocking her down and three out of five guards. The two guards in the back jumped over the bodies of their comrades and dove at me. They dove right into a wall of water. I quickly jumped through the water and out of my house into the street. It was deserted, there were only ten houses on my street, but they were all deserted. I felt the heat coming up on me before I felt the pain in my back. I whipped around and saw the girl right behind me. She shot two bolts of fire out of her fingertips and they wrapped around both of my wrists. I couldn't move and she pulled the fire ringlets to the ground. I laid there as I saw the five guards coming up in front of me. The girl, who was apparently the only one who could move me around, lifted me in the air and walked in circles around me. As if she was deciding if she should kill me or not. She said, "You will live and will be taken back with us. Now just don't do anything that makes me do work, I don't like work. Trust me I don't want to be here any more than you do", I stared at her from my position as she called for some type of car that was controlled by her fire. It came rearing up behind us and I was pulled inside where I sat silently with the heat surrounding me.
They stopped paying as much attention on me and focused on their commander who's name was apparently Joey, I had always thought of as Joey as a boy's name, but whatever. When I saw that none of them were looking, I jumped out the back and shot down water that lifted me in the air. I heard the yelling of the people below as they called for me to come back. I felt the familiar hot sensation of their flames, but I knew that they couldn't get this high, because their fire wouldn't hold them up underwater. I felt flames spread around my back and just before everything went black I felt myself falling straight down and then I felt heat surround me. Then I was gone.

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