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A Delinquent Evabon
As Llud and Nara walked together, a feeling of knowing more about each other came to the young man and woman. So it was that Llud was the first one to speak.
"What is life like for you in Braki?" asked Llud.
Nara shrugged. "Fine for a gentlewoman such as I."
"A woman of high social standing, eh?" asked Llud. "Whom are you descended from?"
"My father is the late Khyngakhgook, a basket maker." Stated Nara. "His brother, my uncle, is Bardyia, a veteran of the ten year war." Any family of a hero would be of high social standing. "My uncle has arranged for me to marry Alxanda but if he continues this demonization of a family so honorable as your own then I will not marry one as bad as him! However, even before that I was against marrying him."
"For what reason?"
"I do not love Alxanda." That was Nara's answer. She had never loved Alxanda but now she was starting to see one whom she could love. "And what of you, Llud? What is life like for you in Wilusa?"
"I am the champion of Wilusa but yet there are times when I feel not worthy of it."
"Why not?" asked Nara.
"Between the years of my thirteenth and my eighteenth birthday I was a delinquent. All I was interested in was making sport of everyone else, playfully mind you. Enaros, my predecessor who as of recently attempted to assassinate good Piyamaradu, had been worse though. He had been one without honor, eventually leading to him being stripped of his position."
"How did your delinquency end?"
"At a tilt my father was accidentally killed by one named Davyd." Llud sighed. "Or at least he claimed it was an accident. Davyd's harpoon had been honed while my father's had been atrophy as the rules dictated."
"Well, what happened to Davyd?" asked Nara.
"I defeated and personally ran him out of Wilusa." Stated Llud. "It took the death of my father to turn me from delinquency…"
"And your predecessor?"
"Killed by Pwyll mac Wodanaz, my cousin's father." Llud sighed. "Pwyll is not the best of our race but he isn't the worst either. He is just lacking quite a few morals." Llud would have continued if a sound had not come to his ears. Turning his head and scanning the forested surroundings, Llud stood where he was while Nara sat deep in thought at what he companion had told of himself.
However it wasn't on the ground that Llud found the source of the sounds. It was in the trees. Labinnac! All of them looking like a cross between komrev and were-tolacs with owl-like eyes, large claws and emaciated bodies. They were like skeletons with ash-toned skin. They must have been planning an ambush! He did not notice Regynald or the other two labinnac from earlier. These ones were different but would probably attack an Evabon on sight nonetheless. Llud could see them restraining themselves but he knew they'd fail eventually and then he knew the assegai, kopis gastraphetes and the like would be brandished, thrown and fired. If Llud were to draw his sword all their attention would be on him and yet he could not just abandon Nara to the savagery of these monsters.
No. He'd do something else.
With a dash, Llud picked Nara up in his arms and left the path. Immediately, the Labinnac began to fire that gastraphetes, throw they assegai and chase with their kopis. This only caused a headache for the commanders of the Labinnac: Vultaire and Kaynar, more Vultaire than Kaynar.
"No!" cried Vultaire. "Get back here you fools! Those aren't the ThunderCats!"
Kaynar merely laughed. "Don't be too angry with them, Vultaire. They're just itching for the taste of blood and now that I think of it, so am I!" And with that Kaynar joined in the chase.
This left Vultaire left with one thing to wish. He wished that given the rats recent joining of Mumm-Ra he could have been given a battalion of rats to command instead.
Despite this, he too soon joined in the chase. Being a vulture he enjoyed the taste of carrion and if those two Evabon were to be injured then they would be something of interest to him and he did so enjoy the thrill of the chase.
An arrow from a gastraphetes had hit the back Llud's left shoulder causing the Labinnac that had fired it to stop and yell a war cry. A poor move for Kaynar had soon knocked the Labinnac aside sending it face first into a rock and had Kaynar not done that he would have even then caught up to Llud who was carrying Nara in his arms.
The Wilusan champion and the Brakian gentlewoman had come to a river, a deep and wide one too. Seeing the only way of escape, Llud jumped into the river with Nara and they swam away from the bloodthirsty horde.
They could escape from Kaynar and the Labinnac that way but not from Vultaire.