Hello my faithful readers! I'm back and that icky writers block is gone! Her is the newest chapter!

"Will, we need to make camp. This should do." Halt called out. After Evalyn had talked to Halt, Will had decided they needed to move on. Just incase some were still following them. After traveling for a while it had become obvious that they were being followed by six assassins. They had now been traveling for a week and should reach the coastline soon.

Will sighed. He didn't want to stop. They had gotten far ahead of the assassins, but what if during the night they caught up? They were closed to the coastline, so close. He wanted to push through the night, but he knew the others were exhausted and truthfully he was too. But he wanted to put this behind him so bad. He wanted to forget this, like it was a bad dream. No matter what he did though, he knew he couldn't. this had darkened his thoughts for a while. Could he ever be who he was before? He wasn't blind. He saw the looks of terror and some of disgust when he got like this. But the one that annoyed him the most was the sympathy and the hurt. Halt and Gilan blamed themselves for what had happened to Will. Will knew this. But he also saw their lost looks and quiet discussions about what to do with him. How to help him. He shook his head. They would make camp.

They slowly made camp. Halt had already decided no fire. He knew the chances that the assassins would see it were too great of a risk. This unfortunately meant no coffee. Which didn't please any of the rangers. Halt being his normal self took first watch. Gilan would take second, Will third and Horace would take the last.

"Will!" She screamed. He looked over at her. Terror filled her eyes. Will wiped his knife on the man's clothing.

"It had to be done, Evalyn. If I hadn't killed him, he would have sold us out. They can't know where we are anymore. You know that Ragnak knows who you are; he swore a vallasvow against you. Do you not understand what that means?" Will said calmly.

Cassandra nodded, but tears ran down her cheeks. She didn't want this to go on any longer. She just wanted to go home.

"I want to go back to Araluen." She screamed. She broke down sobbing.

She looked up and all she saw standing there was a cold figure. Will was gone. He had changed and become the way he was now. She stared into his cold, heartless eyes and understood. He had given up hope a long time ago.

"Princess! Wake up!" Gilan said while gently shaking her. She had been crying in her sleep, sobbing really.

Evalyn sat up quickly and began to wipe away her tears.

"Are you-"

"I'm fine."

Gilan shook his head he knew she wasn't fine, but he obviously was only going to upset her further by pressing for answers.

"You need to be quiet." Will said suddenly appearing beside them.

Gilan threw him a glare. Will just looked back at Gilan with a cold indifference. Will turned around at the same time Halt sat up.

HALT POV

Halt instantly woke up to the sound of sobbing. He heard it stop quickly and had heard the exchange between Gilan and Evalyn. He had also heard Will tell them to be quiet. He sat up at that. Will had seemed fine and opening up more recently. Now, however, he was withdrawing and becoming cold and distant. He needed to talk to him about it.

"Will. We need to talk." Halt said softly.

"Not now. There isn't time. People are following us. If I had my way we wouldn't have stopped. They have caught up and her sobbing and Gilan practically yelling when he talked to her just alerted them to where we are. Get ready to go, we need to leave now." Will said coldly and walked away. He began to gather his things while the others just stood there.

"I don't know what you are waiting for, but I for one do not have a death wish. Either get moving o I'm leaving now." He hissed.

They all glared, but started moving quickly. Horace who had just woken up followed everyone else.

"Who is following us? I thought no one would come looking for that guy." Gilan said gruffly.

"They aren't. They just decided I know too much and that there is a chance I've told you information. It won't matter soon. Once we are in Araluen they won't bother us. We will be on familiar ground and have protection enough. Once we get to Araluen, this will be in the past." Will stated.

"Won't they follow us? Eventually?" Horace asked.

"No, I had friends there. They are taking care of the training facility. Once they have been weakened, it will take them more than the time we have left in our lives to rebuild and come after us. Because once you've failed, you can never be what you were before." Will said his voice growing gentler as he continued. They saw his eyes soften just for a moment and saw Will begin to hope. His mask went up again quickly after though, but he didn't stop staring into the distance. They looked up; the coastline of the sea was just visible. They realized what he was thinking. They were on their way home. Will hadn't let himself hope before let alone believe that they would actually make it this far. And now that they had made it this far Will had begun to hope that he might make it home.

"We still need to find a way to make it home and we still have to travel through the countries and go through who knows what, but for now at least it'll be fine." Gilan said softly.

"That's not true. Because the people following us haven't stopped. We still are waiting. That's all we can do is wait. Wait for them to attack and be ready. Once they are gone, then that will be true." Will said and smiled softly.

Writers block is gone! There is going to be around two chapters after this. Review!

Alexa