Mysterious Dealings, Chapter 3 "The Encounter"

Fedro was walking aimlessly down an unfamiliar road; he had contemplated just leaving the girl on the side of the road, and leave her to wake up of her own accord, but he decided against it, too much harm could come to her, then he felt it, he felt before he heard it, the shriek, he span, as fast as he could, and saw her, the old woman spiralling towards him, cackling, a dagger in her hand, Fedro dropped the girl, and managed to conjure a fireball, he threw it, but she dodged it, he was doomed, his only option, he quickly felt the air around his hand, connected the particles together, and splayed his hand with a strong force, the woman flew sideways, wait, sideways? She should have flown backwards, away from him, his magic must not have been the source of the whole flying sideways thing, then he saw the fist, it was still hanging there, clenched hard, it must have hit the old nut job pretty hard for that amount of flying sideways, he looked right, to see the face of his rescuer, and then he stopped, it was a woman, he wasn't expecting that! And boy, was she just beautiful, stunning, her dark brown hair, falling around her head, silkily, he was immediately attracted to her, then the woman stood back, dusted herself down, unnecessarily, and shook her hair out of her face, and turned to Fedro, raised an eyebrow, and smiled, "Hello there, I am China Sorrows, pleased to meet you, and, I already know who you are, Fedro Black, I think you should come with me," China held out a hand, to shake with Fedro, but he didn't grab it, he simply, jerked his hand forwards, and fell to the floor, Fedro had fainted.