Long, silky and wavy black hair in a single braid with Dark Ocean blue eyes and lightly tanned skin. A 6 year old's eyes darted from person to person. The 6 year old watched a woman with brown hair put down her basket full of apples, bread, pears, figs, plums and flowers down onto the ground as she looked at what the traveling merchant was selling. The child's hand snaked out, snatching a fig, apple and 3slices of the bread. She backed up between the wagons of the two travelling merchants then slid away from the small trading district. Hunger clawed at her stomach but she could not eat until she found the other 2 children. She turned her head slightly to the left, seeing the mayor, Dominic, watching her with his old eyes. She darted by, keeping close to the houses before she came across an abandoned house at the edge of the town. Andrew's Town it was called. She silently opened the door then put the stolen food in a bowl that she had stolen months ago. She rubbed her eyes before calling out the other two children's names.

"Drake! Taika!" The sound a running feet was heard as two boys, each a year older then the girl appeared. Drake, the first boy, had silver-blonde hair and grey-blue eyes. Taika, the second boy, had dirty blonde hair and green eyes. The two boys peeked over the girl's shoulder as their stomach's growled. The girl handed out a single slice of bread to each of them, and then she split the fig and apple into three pieces. They ate their dinner slowly, trying to make it last. After they finished they spread out the tattered blankets on the wooden floor and drifted off into a light slumber.

They woke to the sound of the door banging open.

"They're in here somewhere." They heard the mayor, Dominic, mutter loudly. The three children scrambled up as Aven's guards barged into their room. Drake and Taika darted past them, quick like the thieves they turned into. The girl jumped up on the table, grabbing the edge of the windowsill and pulling herself up before jumping out, grabbing onto the tree's branch. She climbed down the tree and looked for Drake and Taika. Her eyes settled on them, they had been caught. She and Drake locked eyes.

"Run!" The girl froze as the Knights and the Hunter followed Drake's gaze to her. Dominic pointed at her.

"She's one of them as well," That's when they started chasing her. She did the one thing her body ordered to do at this point.

She ran.

She turned around and bolted to the back of the house, she ran to the town. The villagers yelled and screamed getting out of the way, the girl weaved her through the crowd. She climbed the steps that led to the side door of a house, she grabbed the edge of the roof, which was low enough for her hands to reach, and she swung up and ran along the roof-tops, like she had down so many times before. She crouched down and watched with dark ocean blue eyes as the guards and the Hunter with his pet, tried looking for her. She saw them drag Drake and Taika, waiting in the middle of the street, the villagers had gathered along the edge of the street now, wondering what was happening.

"Where are you little girl?" A guard with ginger hair asked, looking around. He then spotted her on top of the house, crouched down.

"There!" the ginger-haired man yelled out. They growled with frustration. She was up on the roof-top...and they were down below. Dominic sighed before adding.

"She's the cleverest out of the three. I told you to catch the girl first! Go in quietly!" The Hunter looked at her, his own black hair was short and messy coupled with aqua-green eyes and a muscular Razor Fang Tiger at his side.

"Won't you come down?" The Hunter asked. The others looked back and forth. The girl shook her head.

"Why not?" He asked. The girl blinked her eyes then her eyes darted from the Guards, to the villagers, to the Hunter and his Tiger.

"She can't talk-" Dominic started to say

"You'll catch me." She finally spoke. A shocked silence met her.

"I can see that she can talk perfectly fine." The Hunter spoke to Dominic.

"She's never spoken before...I didn't know..." Dominic huffed.

"Will you tell us your name?" The girl shook her head again.

"No." He frowned.

"Why not?"

"It's not important."

"I'll tell you mine." The girl leaned forward, careful not to fall.

"My name is Entin FarGloom, I'm the Apprentice of Ranger Lamia Hamoh" The girl blinked her eyes again.

"Names are not important if we're not going to see each other again." The girl added after a moment's silence. Entin sighed.

"Would you come down if I said that your friends would be put in an orphanage?" Drake and Taika looked at her with desperate eyes.

"You're going to put us there anyways." Entin shook his head.

"The way you 3 were able to survive this long is outstanding...We could teach you...You'd live with others just like you." The girl tilted her head in thought.

"You promise?" Entin nodded and made an X over his heart with his pointer finger.

"I promise." The girl then stood up slowly. The others watched her with their eyes as she made her way back to the stairs. She leaped down then went down the stairs. She panicked when the Guards rushed over to her. They were two hands width away from her when the Tiger barrelled them over. The girl watched as the Tiger looked at her with its yellow eyes.

"Jump on" its eyes seemed to say. She climbed onto the Tiger's back; it then trotted back to Entin. Entin smiled and looked at the girl.

"Now...May I ask what your name is again?" The girl looked back at Entin and gave a smile, the villagers sighed with relief.

"Kaerue...Kaerue Koizumi."