My heart pounded against my chest from both fear and anger. Fear of dying and anger of knowing that I shouldn't have been here. I was an innocent woman. I was taken by mistake. Yet here I sat with ropes binding my hands. I didn't pay too much attention to the men beside me. I was too busy thinking of some way to escape. To live while I still had the chance to.

I thought about it, that was, until I saw a man shot down by an archer as he booked it. A chill shuddered down my spine. I couldn't run after all.

" Name."
I looked up at the guard, trying to bite back my tongue.

" Akara."
His eyes searched the list and then his brows furred together.

" Captain she's not on the list." He mumbled. Of course I wasn't, I was an innocent woman! I had just been roaming around when I found myself in the center of a battle. When they found me the pinned me for a storm cloak and hauled me in without question. The Captain faltered, all eyes on her. Then she cracked under pressure and sent me to wait in line to be executed. I'd get her back for this. If I got out.
My eyes wondered around before landing on a young boy. He was perhaps my age, maybe a little older. But there was something odd about him. He was calm. Not an ounce of worry or fear in his blood. In fact he looked . . . bored.

Then his eyes flickered over to me. I had expected a lot of things but what I saw was not one of them. His hair was black, so black it almost looked blue, and his eyes were gold. But there was something about them that seemed off and it wasn't just the color.

Above us there was a screech and I turned my eyes to the sky. There in the distance I spotted a black blob. I had tried to lie to myself and say it was just a bird but I knew I was wrong. Even as I shoved up to the block my eyes never left it. It screeched again then the ground rumbled. My heart seemed to have stopped. I couldn't believe it. It was a-

" Dragon!"

Fire left it's mouth and I ducked. As soon as the heat disappeared I tried to run but my legs were shaking too much for my own good. It was as if I had no strength left in my bones.

" Prisoner come with me!"

I shot up and saw one of the guards running towards a tower. If I could then I obviously would have.

I jumped at the cold touch of a hand on my own. There knelt the boy I had seen earlier, sawing at the ropes around my wrist with a knife.

" How did you-"
" No time to ask stupid questions." He rushed, still sawing. With one last flick of his wrist the bindings came undone and fell to the floor. " Can you stand?"

" I can force myself too."
" Good. Run, run as far as you can and don't believe what people say."

And with that he left. As quick as he came he had disappeared. However I didn't have much time to question it. I could search him down later and thank him. Until then I'd have to muster up what strength I had and run for it.

Run, run as far as you can and don't believe what people say.

That's exactly what I intended to do.

I shot up out of my bed with a gasp. My chest heaved and sweat had formed on my brow. I glanced around in few that I had been captured again then I relaxed. No, I was safe. I was in an inn, safe and sound in my own bed. I had a roof over my head and food in my stomach. I tried to calm my erratic heart and laid back down into bed, pulling the furs over my shoulder as if they'd keep my safe. It had been how long since that happened? Yet the dream was still so vivid. I groaned and grasped my head. And now that I've been training it seems to be haunting me even more.

His eyes flashed through my mind.

I never did find out if he survived or not. If he was a criminal he most likely booked it to the forests, which would explain why I hadn't ran into him yet. So many years had passed and still to this day it bothers me that I never had the chance to thank him. I shuddered at the thought of being dead, or worse, finding him dead. He had done nothing but cut the ropes on my wrists but he had been my savior. Finding him dead would be the worst possible thing. Or at least, that's what I had thought at the time.

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