Amira POV –
The man on the back of the horse grunted,
"You sure we shoulda left her back there? I mean ugly or not, someone woulda bought her".
Both men laughed. A taller, broader man rode up proudly behind them.
"Someone has let the cat out of the bag" he said putting emphasis on the last five words.
The fatter man paled, "I didn't say anything! I swear it on my life!"
"I think I can manage that" said the leader with a sly look on his face.
Without hesitation, he drew his sword and ran it through the heart of the man. He looked at the other man who wiped the spattered blood off his face and spat on the ground.
"Congratulations, you've just been promoted. Now go back and finish that girl off quickly. We can't have any witnesses".
Freya POV –
"We gonna follow them or report them to Arthur?" I muttered.
My father smirked,
"Follow them of course."
I grinned back, "I was hoping you would say that!"
Amira POV –
I groaned and opened my eyes. The light seared into my brain making my eyes water in pain. I carefully felt the side of my head. When I pulled my fingers away, my hand was covered in blood. I grew dizzy and tried to fight back the nausea but to no avail. I painfully rolled over onto my side and retch into a pile of leaves. The puke was red with blood.
"That's not good" I thought to myself, "I'm dying".
I tried to come to grips with that thought. Suddenly I heard the sound of a horse.
"They've come to finish me off" I thought. I curled into a ball, trying to hide my helplessness. Suddenly I heard a loud crack and a cry of pain. The sound created a headache so bad that I passed out once again.
Freya POV –
I smirked as my eyes flashed back to their normal light blue.
"How was that?" I smirked to my Father.
"Your way to reckless," he said sternly but had smile on his face.
I cracked my knuckles,
"I can sense something... can you sense it too?"
He looked around,
"It's coming from there" he pointed a little way from our position.
We crept into the clearing carefully. A young girl around my age was sprawled across the fallen leaves with a large gash in her head. My father rushed over to inspect the wound.
"Ic þe þurhhæle þin licsare" He chanted waving a hand over her his eyes flashed gold He looked at her head again,
"We need to get her to Gaius quickly".
