"They're getting close. Please Isabella, get Aura out of here." Cain pleaded.
"No, I won't leave everyone here to be killed or worse, captured." Isabella argued.
"Cain, I've been training for years. Let. Me. Fight." My voice was tight with fury.
A fireball zipped over our heads, "No, Aura, listen to me, please." Cain's voice was full of sympathy and urgency. "You're no match for a wizard. Isabella get her out. Now. She's our only hope." Isabella's eyes filled with tears, but she nodded.
"No!" I screamed as Isabella dragged me away from my home, my friends. The only family I had ever known were going to die protecting me. Isabella has to almost lift me onto my horse, I was so numb I couldn't hardly stand. I briefly thought about rushing back into the fight, but I knew what Cain had said was right. I had seen a wizard's power and knew I was no match at all. Isabella climbed onto her own horse and led mine out of the burning village. I couldn't look back, I just knew it would break me. "Where are we going?" My voice sounded hollow.
Isabella shook her head and, her voice cracking, said "I don't know young one."
Sleep eventually came, filled with dreams of the first time I had met Cain.