Note: Exams are brutal, I failed a course so I won't be updating as much. Sorry that this is especially short, I wanted to quickly end this chapter just so that I could continue the storyline.

The Same Eyes

Chapter 10

Their Contract

Footsteps echoed down a hall her body raced down; her vision blurring as she took each step. Was it just her imagination or was it for real? The broad sword in her hand felt heavier than usual. 'Was it guilt?' She asked herself as she became accustomed with the new weight, 'impossible, I really am being absurd.' To the door she ran her breathe now irregular and forced, the light illuminated yet blinded her path to freedom.

She rested on her knees, heaving heavy breathes before finally collapsing in the tall grass. Only now was she finally was able to breath; breath in freely the fresh outside air. She could feel all her weight lifting off, the sword fell off it's sash on her rear, and she was no longer restrained to the names of the country of sound, nor the ones that ruled it.

She herself had deceived him. 'He'll have my head if he finds me.' She knew well of her current actions, she knew that if she went back now forgiveness was definite. If she would advance out on her own, she would be hated and hunted.

Their contract, will she break it?

'I won't let him bound me. I won't turn back, it has never been an option for me.' This was her ultimate promise to herself, never look back. If she ever did she would have fallen, never being able to get back up.

Clearing up her mind of what to do now, she got up and headed towards her next destination, in one hand a map she swiped from a dead man's quarters, and in the other a clean sword.

"It says there's a village near here, I should get there and ask for directions." Muttered a grumpy Ryu to herself. Not liking the idea of being a tourist. Being just another wandering traveler. She could just imagine the long isolated days with little to eat and even littler time to rest.

Time would have stopped if she had let it.

"Head South-East...Err...5km?" She said to herself staring at a random piece of the thousands of forestry in front of her. And off she went to wherever her two legs took her. It would take her quite some time to get there.

As she took a her first step to her newfound journey she let out a sigh, finally realizing how troublesome this path would lead her to.

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-Tama