Chapter 6
Walking


Amber shifted her pack trying to relive some of the stress on her shoulders, it was still early in
the day not even afternoon yet and they had been walking for about three hours. To say that it wasn't taking
its toil on her wouldn't be close to the truth, all the walking she had done the day before was really
starting to catch up with her. It wasn't that she wasn't fit or anything it's just that sense she had arrived
she had been walking for the majority of the time. "Marisa, I think that I'm going to die, we need to stop
and aside from the fact that my feet feel like they are about to fall off, I'm starving."

Marisa sighed, she was beginning to feel all of there walking herself and she too was hungry. "I'm
liking that idea, I'm not sure that I have ever been on my feet for this long in my life. Sleep never seems
to be the thing to help your feet when they already hurt." She walked over to a large rock not far off the
road, she flopped down on the flat surface of the top of the rock, "As good a place as any to stop and take
a rest, wouldn't you say?"

"Only if you move over so that I have room to sit on that rock too."

Marisa laughed, "Well if your going to be that way I wont let you sit at all."

"Don't be that way, I want to sit too. My feet are going to fall off, move your fat," Amber never
finished her sentence a high pitched scream for help stopped her. When it stopped she looked at Marisa, the
two of them decided with out word that they would go see if they could help. "We don't have any really way to
help," Amber pulled her bow out and started walking on the direction of the scream.

"We have to help, I can't live with the thought that I could do something and didn't."

Once Marisa had her bow out they both started running to the spot there bags left on the ground. Once
they got there they found a small grouping of houses and some bandits attacking those houses and a small girl
crying as she was being circled by about five of the bandits. Amber gave Marisa a head nod indicting for her
to go around to the other side of the small area, Marisa nodded understanding and then went to the other side.

When Marisa was in place they locked eyes both seeming to say now or never, and with that they set
there bows and fired they both hit there target taking out two of the seven. Three went after Amber and two
went after Marisa, both girls hit one more bandit before the one left going after Marisa and the two left
going after Amber got to them.

Before the bandit could get Marisa he was pulled from behind by an unseen hand then knocked out, of
the ones that were after Amber one jumped her the other grabbed her hands putting a knife to her throat.
Everyone stop no one making a move, Amber found that she was holding her breath her mind racing to try
and find a way to free herself.

Marisa put the bow down slowly not wanting to get Amber hurt, finely after a moment Amber said calmly,
"Do you really think that you both need to hold me, I doubt that with a knife to my neck I'll really try anything."

The man who had her around the waist which was the one who had jumped her let go then spoke, "Your right,
after all your just a weaponless girl, so it's not like you could really hurt us anymore."

"What are you intending to do?" Amber asked, her mind was trying to calculate a way out of this and if she
could just keep them talking.

The man who was just a little bit farther a way had a big build the mere thought of taking him on made her
think of trying to take on Ronald Swartsinarger. And the other guy looked just as foreboding, so the only thing that
she could see would work would be to use their heads as there was no one else to rely on.

"Well we were just going to kill everyone but you all might just be useful," the first guy said.

Amber slowly edged towards Marisa and the child as the man spoke, "Oh, and what do you think that we might
be useful for?" Her tone was light and simple not giving a way a thing as to what she was thinking, as she inch her way
just a little more towards her friend.

"Don't move another inch," said the second who had only a slightly smaller build then the other.

Amber sighed and shrugged her shoulders then said innocently, "Can't blame a girl for trying now can you?"

The men just frowned at her; Marisa bit her lip slightly as she thought realizing that Amber might just have
the right idea at trying to keep them talking. "So, um, why attack a small grouping of house in the middle of no
where?" Marisa asked.

Amber didn't know why but she just moved running fast into the big one with as much force as she could muster
right into his stomach. He toppled over falling with a hard thump, the other guy turn toward her as soon as he noticed
what was going on unfortunately that gave the girl the chance to catch him in her spell which knocked him out cold.
And now the last one still able, the big one, pulled his self up off the ground, "You shouldn't have done that girl,
now your going to pay."
He never got to say or do anything more for he two got caught in the little girls spell, Amber turned to Marisa and
the girl, "Let's get out of here, now." And with that said they all took off toward Marisa and Amber's packs.

It's was an hour later after they had gotten there packs and just kept on walking again before anyone spoke,
"So, kid what's your name?" Marisa finely asked.

The kid looked up towards her, "I'm Caitlin, and you lady?"

"I'm Marisa and she's Amber."

There was a long pause, "So do you have any clue why the attacked you?" Amber asked.

"They were looking for the gift we were sending to the King. It wouldn't be to much trouble for me to ask if
you could help me take it there would it?" The small girl was fingering something in her pocket.

"Sure, we'd love to help, we're headed that way any ways," Marisa said.

"So what's this gift that they were looking for?" Amber asked.

"Well I guess I can show you since your going to help," Caitlin pulled something out of her pocket and held
it out.