*Wake Sister!* Ocami's yelp of pain seemed far far away. Simbel awoke slowly. Fogginess clouded her thoughts. She remembered a blow to the head at one point.

Pain pulled her from dreams into her own body suddenly. She tried relaxing. Pain in her arms shoulders back and chest intensified. Simbel opened her eyes. The darkness of a

large tent...she remembered this vaguely. Her feet dangled feet off the ground. Her arms were bound painfully tight behind her and seemed to be the sole burden

of her weight. The pain got worse when she tried moving.

A light flared up close by. She blinked as a man kindled several candles sitting on a chest covered with papers and a plate of mostly eaten food.

"So your finally awake." The man said coming closer. In the dim light Simbel could see the man was middle aged, for a human and had blond hair cropped short.

Simbel remembered how she had been captured with sudden clarity. Lured in by this man threatening a child with death.

"The boy?" Simbel croaked throat parched. The man's face took on a gleeful look.

"Oh the child...He is fine. You don't really think I would damage precious merchandise do you?" The man scoffed at her.

"You missus hunter have been. One. Giant. Pain!" He reached out and grabbed a fist full of her hair and yanked her head to the side with each word. Outside the tent Ocami snarled viciously.

*I am chained Sister!* He all but howled to her.

*Stay focused. Don't panic. We will be free soon. Now we have to back up and look at the whole herd of deer and plan our move* Simbel tried to keep her pain in her own mind. Ocami calmed.

*You are right.* He accepted and looked around with her mind added to his.

Pain exploded in Simbel's right shoulder drawing her back to herself as the man finished yanking down on her shoulder resulting in a sickening pop. Simbel cried out. The man tugged again.

Simbel screamed. Outside Ocami roared in rage. The man chuckled.

"I will ask you one more time. Who sent you Elf?" His hand still lay on her shoulder almost reassuringly. Simbel kept her mouth shut. The man tugged on her shoulder roughly.

Simbel's vision faded to gray. She wasn't sure if she cried out or it it was Ocami.

"The boss must have sent you.. That bastard knows I'm dealing on the side..." The man was leaning over his table moving his papers around. "Looks like I will have to move faster than I thought." He muttered to himself.

Ocami pulled her thoughts away from her pain.

*Sister* He pleaded. Simbel looked through his eyes once more.

*Brother. Lift that coil of chain over the stake.* Using his jaws he tried obeying.

Simbel was suddenly in her body, her head rolling back into its neutral position from a blow.

"Tell me where He is hiding!" The man screamed at her. "Stop snarling like a dumb animal!"

Simbel raised her head to look at him.

"You'll never find them" Simbel said then started to laugh as the man's face turned red. He pulled back his arm and punched her, making her body swing. Simbel half laughed

half sobbed. The man backed away staring at her.

"Your mad!" He seemed fearful of that thought. Simbel laughed again.

*Brother* She greeted Ocami. Ocami stood in the entrance, head low eyes gleaming. He growled a rabid sound that sent shivers up even Simbel's back.

The man turned slowly.

"Call your dog off." The man whispered, but too late. Ocami attacked the man before he could draw a weapon or make another sound. Ocami ripped into the soft person savagely

and ripped his throat out in a heartbeat.

Ocami trotted over to her examining the bonds holding her up. A soft thrumming ran threw her arms as his teeth worked through the rope holding her off the ground. The rope snapped

and Simbel dropped to her feet then sank to her knees with a groan. Ocami's teeth instantly worked on the rope holding her elbows behind her. When it snapped Simbel cried out and

held her right arm still with her left to keep the pain at a minimum.

*Let's get the children and get out of this place..are you badly hurt?* Simbel checked Ocami for wounds then made a makeshift sling for herself. Simbel removed the chain from and

threw it from them like it was a poisonous thing.

*No harm has come to us that can not be mended.* Ocami reflected. Simbel smiled and buried her face in his neck.

*Thank you, brother* She felt rather than said to him. She stood and grabbed all the man's papers and stuffed them into her sling. They made their way through the camp and half a dozen dead bodies,

to another tent. Inside stood three animal cages with three wide eyed children staring at them. Simbel broke the locks on the cages with a rock.

"Were going to take you home" She said simply to the children. She sat the three children on the back of her Dawnsaber tied up outside, while she and Ocami walked along side. They headed to Ratchet where

they could catch a boat and a short flight to Stormwind City.