Chapter 1: The Thief Lord
She continued to run with heavy breathing. Never , she thought, I will never go back! She paused for a second when she got to the
entrance of a dark, damp alley. They still have Bo! She cautiously looked around as the realization of what she had done hit her.
"I ran away," she said in disbelief. "I actually ran away… Daddy and Uncle Prop would be proud.
She took a hesitant step towards the darkness, then a few more until she had been consumed by it.
The moon was the only light that she had to see. When she got to a seemingly dry spot she sat down and started to pray that she
would be okay.
"Humph," there was something or someone else out there.
"Hello?" she shouted as she tried to hide the fear and provocative feelings that had just arose in her stomach. Her heart was
pounding in her chest, and it was hard for her to breath. She had felt someone else's presence before, but she had thought it might have
been something else, like a cat.Oh, Daddy was right, Venice is beautiful, but he was also right about the fact that it seems
haunting at night.
"Now you seem lost," came a voice out of the darkness.
"Who are you?" the girl replied. Well it's a boy, she thought, for she could tell by the deep, booming sound of the figure's voice.
"The question is who are you, and why are you here," the boy said as he stepped out of a shadow and allowed the girl to see him. He
had on a long trench coat and a button up shirt with dark colored blue jeans. He also had on a mask that had a long pointed beak like
nose that stopped before it reached below the apples of his cheeks. He had a nice build and what seemed to be brown hair. He looked
about 15 or 16 and he had haunting green eyes that she felt like she could melt in.
"You go first," the girl said as she stood up and stepped back and hit the wall behind her.
"Okay then, if this is how you're going to be," the boy said as he stepped closer to the girl.
She pressed as hard as she could against the cold stone wall as if she could push herself through. She started to breathe heavily again
out of excitement and fear.
"I'm the Thief Lord, now you?" the boy said as he bent his head slightly and looked straight into the girl's eyes. He slowly crept
towards her and now they were only a few feet apart.
"The Thief Lord, you can't be serious!" the girl laughingly spat out. "My father knew the real Thief Lord. You're just a phony!"
"Oh really?" the boy said mockingly as he stepped closer to her.
"Really," the girl said as she released herself from the wall, stood as tall as she could, and put her face just an inch or two apart from
the boy's long mask.
"Well then, who is your father?" the boy asked as he bent his neck down a little to look straight into her eyes.
"Boniface," the girl said as she looked deeply into the boy's eyes as if she could read his thoughts.
"Well come with me then and I'll give you some shelter for the night," the boy said as he started to walk off into the darkness. "Oh and
what's your name?"
"Stella," the girl said simply as she started to follow the boy.
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