"I'm telling you, you can't sell here." This dude is starting to piss me off. If he didn't have 3 comrades and they weren't all armed to teeth, maybe I could take him.

"Soairse told me to." I say, wishing I never set my machete across the alley from me.

"Soairse has no authority over these parts." He says, fingering a dagger at his hip.

" Then Soairse shouldn't have told me to sell here, huh?" It's hard to keep your cool when you're in a ghetto alley, waiting to die. But I manage. I go get the machete... almost. But he man is in my way and he is not moving.

"Move." I say, half snarling.

"Take your shit out of my alley, and we'll talk." He says. He's a head shorter then me and probably 70 pounds smaller, so I just push him out of my way to get my weapon. When I turn around, what he pulls out of seemingly nowhere looks something akin to a scimitar with a saw-blade edge on a wooden stick. We swing, but only one hits his mark. And with my luck, it was he. It cuts deep into my shoulder and there is a flash of red that clouds my vision for a moment, then wicked laughter surrounds me every where. He kneels down and holds the weapon in front of me.

"You like my toy?" He said darkly. "I took a souvenir when Admiral Zhao invaded the north pole. Whatever is my dead man's is mine." He leaves.

I have never wanted to kill anyone more than I do him now. Of course, I am in no position to try to kill anyone. No, I am on the ground with a gaping hole carved into my left shoulder. Blood pools around me and I think, this is the first time I've ever seen such large quantities of my own blood. If there was ever enough blood to pool, it was never mine. The dull pain in my shoulder just keeps sharpening and I wish I could go back and just leave when I was told to. But I can't. All I can do is stare at my blood mixed with dirt and wait to bleed to death. And blackness rises up to meet me very quickly.

TIME SKIIIIIIIP!

Someone calls my name. "Ozai!" I don't want to get up, my shoulder still hurts.

"Ozai, it's Saoirse. What happened?" She rolls me over on my good shoulder. I can't speak, I'm too out of it. "To Agni, Ozai. What the hell did you get yourself into?" She asked quietly and picked me up and started to drag me to her house. I don't even care to wonder how she can possibly manage to even drag my weight compared to hers.

Some one is in the house named Akiela. Akiela is told to hold me up and not touch my wound, and she/he does. Everything is fuzzy, I can barely see. Saoirse leaves the room for a second and comes back with something white. She and Akiela switch spots and she/he makes me drink water by the multiple gallons. What Saoirse wraps around my shoulder feels spongy and weird, but it dulls the pain a bit. And I slowly start to pass out again.

Next time I wake up, I am in the room Saoirse gave me and there is a candle lit and she is at the end of the bed.

"Saoirse... " I say. She looks up at me from what ever previously had her attention and smiles. Then she looks back into space, like that is where she belongs. Out where no one will bother her or touch her or talk to her, and she is just alone with her thoughts. I wished that often in the past. That I could go somewhere where no one knows me and I don't know anybody. Now here I am, and I don't really like it. It got me a gaping hole in my shoulder.

"Saoirse, I'll be fine. Rest." She does not move. She does not make any movement to acknowledge that I spoke to her. "Saoirse, sleep." I say. All she does is narrow her eyes ever so slightly and stare at my wall like something about it is very, very important. I reach out and touch her shoulder. She jumps and turns around, like a dead man just spoke to her and relaxes a bit after a moment. I scoot over on the bed and grasp her shoulder a little harder. I pull and she gives in. But she is as far on the edge as she can get with her back to me, yet some how, I don't mind. I roll my back to her and we sleep.

A/N: Okay so I know this is a short chapter compared to the other two, but there wasn't much to say on this topic.

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