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Flight and the end of the battle
As
soon as Shona quit the contact between Sonea and her she started
making
plans. She had told Sonea that she still had a little bit
to sail to arrive the
harbour; and within these few minutes the
magicians could be there waiting for
her. Silently Shona left the
place she was ordered to; to watch out. She took
her few
belongings from her sleeping place and went to the back of the
boat..
There she hid it in a corner she new no one would find it
at least the next
two weeks. And within these two weeks she hoped
that she would have time to
get it back. After that she glanced
critically to the nearest piece of coast.
It was quite a
bit to swim. She was lucky that this trip had brought her to
Elyne,
where she had encountered a young nobleman that taught her how to
swim
properly. With a last sight Shona jumped into the see, and
started to swim. That was
definitely not the way she had planned
her arrival. After climbing onto the land Shona was exhausted. She
had no time to rest now, after realising that she was nowhere on any
of the ships the guild would try to find her. She walked swiftly into
her home; the slums of Imardin. She new most people would feel
disgusted by the smell, dirtiness and poverty of the area but for
Shona it was a place where she belonged and the first place where she
was fully accepted.
If the dwells knew who she was they wouldn't accept her. Instead they would be afraid, but as it was she loved it here. She soon arrived at her real home: The Thieves' Road.
Meanwhile in the guild the magicians had once again a meeting because of a magic-wielding slum dwell. When Sonea stopped speaking with Shona, Balkan had sent some of his warriors out to wait for her on the harbour; determined that they wouldn't be outwitted by another inhabitant of the Slums.
She was on a ship. She couldn't go hiding into the slums if they caught her before she even had time to set one foot on Imardin's ground. The rest of the magicians had remained watching the last bout of Sonea and Regin's fight and Sonea knew they would question her after the fight with Regin. She wanted the fight to end quickly so she could think about this revelation. Her best friend could use magic, if it was true that she had used it since she first returned to Imardin from one of her regular trips, than she could use it years before she herself could. Shona was about the same age as Sonea.
While Sonea fought Regin, she
thought about her possibilities: the Guild would
surely want to
know everything about Shona she knew and if she refused to
say
anything the Guild could force her to show them everything.
They would simply
let Akkarin truth read her. Unfortunately if she
told them everything they could also do it, thinking she was lying.
Only Akkarin could prevent that and he would himself want to know everything about Shona. She had to warn Shona as soon as she was truth read that the guild knew everything about her that she knew. After coming to this result she started paying attention to the fight again.
During her thinking she had only attacked with simple weak strikes and had held up a powerful shield that shielded her from everything Regin could do now when he was tired.
She attacked with powerful
strikes. But Regin sidestepped them all, so
they ended flashing
into the Arena's barrier. Suddenly impatient, Sonea wanted the
battle to end and the confrontation with the guild to begin. One way
or the other this bout would win who had more power. So she could now
end it quickly. Closing her eyes Sonea envisioned a pattern of
strikes giving Regin no way to escape them. She released the magic in
three waves of force strikes, each more powerful than the
previous.
Although distracted from the news of another magic
wielding slum dwell the
magicians were surprised by her strength
and quiet exclamations could be heard
from the crowd.
Sonea
watched as the strikes hit Regin, with the first wave of strikes
Regin's
shield broke; but as the next two waves hit the inner
shield also wavered, and
Regin fell to the ground.
