Her breath escaped her as she sat bouncing high on top of the horse. Even as she clung tightly to the supporting weight in front of her, it was hard to stay in one spot on top of the bounding steed. Her eyes went wide at the sight before her. Knights' swords clashing against their enemies as the townsfolk ran around for the safety that was lost to them.
"Look out!" she yelled while watching him pull back on the reins for the horse to avoid the oncoming crowd.
They were bounding through the alleyways, barely avoiding the people running on to their path.
"Right or left Sonia?" her protector called. He was having trouble seeing with all the noise around blocking everything that was in view.
"Righ—"Sonia paused when something green caught her attention. The next thing she knew was her body tilting forward and then thrown into the air. She cried when landing on the dirt road before rolling to a stop.
She slowly pushed herself up while desperately looking around for him in the mess of fighting and bodies.
"….Shadow?" she panted and coughed, "S-Shadow!"
She knew better not to call him be his guild name, but she did not care. "Shadow! Where are you?"
She stood up and avoided everyone as she searched, but to her horror, she found Shadow on the ground, unmoving.
If only she had stayed at the tavern.
If only she had listened to him.
If only…
Sonia fell to her knees before she could get to him, her sight fading to black and her head spinning fast. The last image she saw was the slow movements of his chest going up and down; he is alive. She was smiling as a single tear slid down her cheek before everything went black.
This was all her fault.
But our story does not start here, it all started a few months before all of this mess, when they were not separated from one another and when they did not have to struggle around in the dark finding answers.
