Swordfish didn't know what was happening as he was swept along with all the Old Monarchy dragonback soldiers, flying into battle. Anthony was silent. The city was alive with people and dragons trying to get out of the vicinity. The loud booms began to get louder as they got closer to the battle. The dragons and humans kept up their battle cry.
Suddenly, as the battle came into view, something happened. The first few dragons in the charge were caught in a sudden explosion. BOOOM. Swordfish saw a Grasswing being flung to the side, with the man on her back holding on for dear life. From the center of the explosion, Swordfish saw a Seawing, blackened and burning, falling out of the sky, dead.
"WHAT WAS THAT?!" A voice yelled out from all the yelling. Swordfish closed his eyes when he flew into the smoke of the explosion. When he opened his eyes again, he heard Anthony mutter a prayer under his breath.
The battle came into view. There were fires and piles of rubble from buildings that had fallen. There were dead humans and dragons lying on the battlefield. Some humans were hiding behind the bodies of fallen dragons. On one side, there were dragons flying in the air, and humans on the ground, some on horseback. There were carriages there too, some on their side acting as cover. That was Old Monarchy. Swordfish saw their flags.
On the other side, there was more of the same, just without dragons. Swordfish recognized the Black Star uniform from the dead bodies in the lobby of the King Burkhardt Bank. But with it all, there were two strange metallic… things. They moved with strange metallic wheels. They had small windows for people to look out of. On top, there was a part that swiveled around, and had what looked like a barrel of a large gun sticking out of it. One of the gun parts on one of the armored weapons was smoking, and pointed at the dragons.
"Oh god." Anthony said quietly. "What… are those?" Swordfish watched with horror as a large Rockwing plummeted downward towards the armored weapon, roaring. "YOU'LL PAY FOR THAT!" The gun simply aimed upward and fired again. The Rockwing caught the full blast of the projectile, which exploded again. The Rockwing fell to the ground, a large piece of him no longer there. "STAY AWAY FROM THE ARMORED VEHICLES!" Cried a voice. "Commander Swamp!" Swordfish heard someone yell.
The Mudwing commander led the arriving soldiers down behind the Old Monarchy front. The dragonets landed, shaken. Anthony, Michael, Marie, and Gabi got off their backs. "…Thanks…" Gabi said uncharacteristically quiet. "What are those things?" Michael asked nobody in particular. "We're not sure." Said a familiar voice, answering him. Swordfish turned to see Commander Seilbrenner, along with other soldiers and some field medics. The commander was on top of a carriage, looking at Black Star's armored weapons with a telescope.
"They must run almost like a steamship. Exhaust is pouring out of their backs. They must be burning coal somewhere inside them to power them. Those guns fire explosive shells." Seilbrenner collapsed his telescope. "Whatever they are, they're very dangerous. They can kill even the thick-scaled Rockwings in one shot."
Seilbrenner then turned and saw the dragonets. "Hey! What are you five doing here!?" Blizzard was about to answer. "Get out of here! This is no place for dragonets like you!" Rattlesnake looked over at their friends, who were rushing into battle. "Yes sir!" Vulture responded quickly. The dragonets took to the sky. Rattlesnake still looking after Anthony and the others.
The dragonets began to fly away when a top window of a building burst open and a Black Star soldier pointed his rifle at Vine. Swordfish barely had time to react before a Skywing flew by with a woman riding his back. The woman fired a shot at the enemy soldier and killed him right there. The Skywing sped away.
Vine stared at the dead body of the soldier inside the building. She had been a pale green ever since they arrived at the battle, but now she looked even greener. "He died… because… Because…" She didn't even finish the sentence.
"Come on Vine!" Blizzard cried. "We're getting away from here!" Vine took one last look at the soldier and caught up with the rest of them.
The dragonets began flying away, but Vulture took one last look back and stopped. "Hey! Someone's standing over Commander Seilbrenner!" Swordfish stopped and looked to where Vulture was pointing. Vulture came to a stop on the roof of the building, and kept pointing.
Swordfish saw a small figure on top of the building closest to where Seilbrenner was. She was wearing a hood and a mask, hiding her face. She had two daggers sheathed on her waist. "We have to warn him!" Vine exclaimed.
Suddenly, Rattlesnake pointed down back at the battle and yelled. Swordfish was blown backward from an explosion. One of the armored weapons had fired at them. The corner of the building crumbled beneath them. Swordfish hit the roof with intensity. Vine was flung at a chimney. Rattlesnake simply fell down. Blizzard took to the sky.
Vulture caught the most of the blast. His left side catching bits of fire and shrapnel from the explosion. Vulture fell off the building, unmoving. "VULTURE!" Vine yelled. Blizzard rushed downward to catch him. She eventually managed to stop him from hitting the ground too hard.
The other dragonets flew down to the street where Blizzard had Vulture. His left side didn't look too good. His eye had a bad scar down it. His left arm had a bad burn on it, with some exposed flesh. His eye and a scratch on his stomach were bleeding quite a bit. "Three moons… we need help." Rattlesnake said. "Do… you think he's going to be alright?" Vine asked quietly, still showing how scared she was.
"His eye isn't going to be." Blizzard said. "That wound looks deep." "There were medics back where the commander was." Swordfish said, remembering seeing the medics back behind Old Monarchy lines. "But that would mean heading back into..." Swordfish didn't get to finish what he was saying before Rattlesnake started lifting Vulture up. Blizzard helped too. "Swordfish, Vine. Watch our backs. Make sure nobody attacks us." Blizzard said.
"Wait… do you really trust us to fend off enemies we've never faced before?" Vine asked. "We've held each other's backs until this far." Blizzard said, her voice sounding strange. "I trust you."
The dragonets snuck through the battle. One of the perks of still being dragonets was that they were small. Of course, they were still dragging Vulture around, which made the chance they would be seen greater.
Swordfish aimed his mobile rifle up, his eyes darting around. They were on another side of the battle that had only one pile of rubble on the street, with one singular Black Star soldier's body lying on the ground. As the dragonets approached the body, they saw he was still alive. His legs were crushed by part of a building and he had a gash in his chest, like from a claw. He was bleeding out and would probably die soon.
"Dirty… dragons…" He choked out, hate burning in his grey eyes, and Swordfish flashed back to the dying Icewing in the trench, back when he and Vine were escaping from Adnachiel.
"Do… we save him?" Vine asked out loud, reaching out to the soldier, but the soldier used what must have been his last strength to put out his arm, as if to brush Vine away. "Don't… touch me… You monster… Die… Burn in… hell." He said "hell" with emphasis.
Swordfish saw hatred in the soldier's eyes that he had seen before. Ezra the bounty hunter, and Asha Wirnman from the Committee of Public Safety had the same anger, only in this soldier, it was rawer.
"Let's go." Rattlesnake said quietly, and the dragonets left the soldier to die without dragons present.
Swordfish and Vine lead the rest of the way, peering around building corners with their weapons, making sure they didn't walk into soldiers. Vine would've helped a lot, but she couldn't go invisible because of her armor and weapon.
"We need to get there faster." Blizzard said. "The bleeding isn't stopping." Swordfish glanced back at the horrific state of Vulture's eye and his other wounds. Rattlesnake had been picking out bits of glass and wood splinters as fast as she could. Vulture's eye had blackened with the burn.
"What… how are they going to beat those armored things?" Vine asked quietly. "They can kill a full grown Rockwing with one shot. Like its nothing!" Swordfish pictured the vehicles in his mind. War machines…
"If Vulture was awake I bet he could figure out how to get rid of them." Swordfish said. "Remember, his father made weapons for the Skywings. Of course, these are probably a lot more advanced than those, but maybe they're similar."
Blizzard looked up at Swordfish. "I bet you're right! If anyone can figure out how to destroy those things, it's Vulture!" They all looked at the dying body of Vulture. "So, let's go! We need to get him back to the medics!" Rattlesnake said, and the dragonets began creeping towards the battle.
Luckily, the Old Monarchy front had pushed further down the street, despite the armored vehicles being there. They must have a limited number of shots, because otherwise they would be firing away right now. Swordfish realized, looking at the armored weapons, their guns pointed at the Old Monarchy soldiers, but not firing.
"Swordfish? Vine?" Said a familiar voice. Swordfish turned to see Michael and Marie hiding behind a piece of a building. Michael was bleeding from the side of his head a little bit, and Marie was holding her arm. "Rattlesnake and Blizzard are behind us." Swordfish said. "Vulture is dying. He got hit with one of those weapons." "Vulture got shot with one of the tanks?!" Michael asked, concerned. "If those things are called tanks, then yes." Rattlesnake said, coming up behind Swordfish with Blizzard and the unconscious Vulture. "Hamza almighty." Marie whispered when she saw Vulture's state. "Get him back to the command areas quickly."
The dragonets carried Vulture back to where the medics were. He was taken almost immediately by dragon medics, a Sandwing and Grasswing. "If he lives, his left eye will most likely not see again." Said the Sandwing. The other medics began putting Vulture in bandages and applying water to the wounds. "Damn, he got burned pretty badly." Said a Nightwing.
But Swordfish was looking back in the direction of the commander. Back to where Vulture was looking before he got hit with the explosive. That figure… was still standing on top of the building where Seilbrenner was. She had a small figure, and Swordfish could now see the two distinct blade in her hands. She had a wooden mask covering her lower face, and her hood slightly blew in the breeze. But Swordfish could see where she was looking. She was looking down at Commander Seilbrenner.
Swordfish pointed up at her. "Look." He said to the others. "She's targeting the commander." Blizzard suddenly left Vulture's side and took to the sky. "Hey!" Cried Rattlesnake.
Blizzard flew directly at the woman standing over Seilbrenner, and swiped at her with her weaponized claws. The gauntlet-type weapons she had put on both of her arms suddenly extended out blades from their outside with the swipe, making the woman do a flip backward to avoid getting sliced by them.
Blizzard ran forward and began drawing in breath to blast the woman with frostbreath, but the woman saw what she was doing and rolled out of the way, and then began climbing down the building, using windows and ledges on the building as places to put her feet.
Swordfish decided to go tell Seilbrenner about the woman. "I'm going to go tell the commander." Swordfish told Vine. "He's going to get angry at you for disobeying his orders." Rattlesnake warned. "Yeah, I better not tell him about the assassin because he might get angry." Swordfish said sarcastically, and then he bounded through the rubble and obstacles of the Old Monarchy front.
He ran towards Commander Seilbrenner, who turned and saw him first. "Hey!" He yelled sternly, and two soldiers who were on either side of him pointed rifles at Swordfish. "No, no. Weapons down." Seilbrenner said, and then turned to look at Swordfish. "I told you to get out of here! This is a warzone!" "Well, I thought you should know about the assassin coming for you." Swordfish said. And suddenly Swordfish saw the hooded figure vault over rubble and roll towards Seilbrenner.
Swordfish saw her unsheathe her daggers and he took to the sky. He watched in horror as she threw one of the daggers and it hit one of the soldiers with Seilbrenner right in the throat, sinking in all the way to its hilt. The other soldier fired a shot from his rifle at the masked woman, but it missed. "No!" Said the soldier in despair. Suddenly, another masked hooded person tackled the soldier and slit his throat. The attacker was a man. "Teper' Nikita!"
The woman ran towards Seilbrenner, who pulled out a pistol. But Rattlesnake came out of nowhere and flew right at the woman named Nikita, tackling her. Rattlesnake quickly disarmed Nikita and pinned her down to the ground. Rattlesnake raised her tail barb into the air threateningly. "Don't move!" She ordered in the scariest voice she could manage.
But Nikita just chuckled as another masked woman ran at Rattlesnake and climbed up her back, and held a blade to Rattlesnake's throat. "Step away from the head ubiytsa." Said the new assassin. Swordfish was frozen in the air, watching Nikita step towards the commander, who fired a shot at her. It missed.
Seilbrenner fired again and Nikita dodged and rolled on the ground toward him. I have to do something! Swordfish told himself, but it was like he was frozen in place. Suddenly, Blizzard descended from the sky and slashed at Rattlesnake.
Swordfish was snapped back to life, seeing how close Blizzard had been to hurting Rattlesnake. He was about to yell something at Blizzard when he saw her true goal. The body of the assassin on Rattlesnake's back fell to the ground, her throat slashed open, blood pouring out of the fatal wound. Rattlesnake turned and looked at the dead body for almost a second, and then turned and ran towards Nikita, her tail ready to strike.
Is Rattlesnake really going to kill someone? Swordfish thought, looking at the slaughtered assassin that lay on the street, bleeding out onto the cobblestone and dirt. She always tried to advocate for peaceful resolution…
Swordfish suddenly felt something crawling on his back. His mind flashed back to when Anthony got on his back when they were fighting the Darkists. Swordfish's mind flickered to the dead Rainwing with his head blown in.
Swordfish started spinning around and around, trying to get the Black Star soldier off of him. "Sterben und brennen, Seawing!" He heard the soldier cry in Verlassenist. Suddenly, the soldier was gone as a talon swiped him away.
Swordfish looked above him to see the Seawing with the accent who helped him put on the gear. "Seriously! We're ya taught nothing? Ya gotta go really fast to get those soldiers off ya, or yar dead meat!" Swordfish pointed on the Seawing's back. "LOOK OUT!" He warned. The Old Monarchy soldier didn't have time to react. The Black Star soldier pointed his mobile shotgun at the Seawing's head and fired.
Swordfish fired his own weapon at the Verlassenist, but he missed as the Seawing's body fell, a large chunk of his head missing, the soldier falling down with it. As Swordfish looked downward he saw the Black Star soldier's glaring eyes from under his military helmet.
Swordfish landed by the body after it fell to see that the human had disappeared. He was probably hiding or was fast enough that he escaped. The Seawing lay dead on the ground, his wound almost making Swordfish vomit.
Swordfish made his way back over to Rattlesnake, shaken. She was tending to a cut on her arm as Blizzard was making sure the commander and the other soldier were all right. "So, Black Star has sent assassins after me." Seilbrenner said with a grim smile. "Guess I'm a threat." Rattlesnake was staring at the dead body of the soldier the assassins killed. "I… can't…" She said quietly. She suddenly got up and walked away.
"Swordfish… you have blood on your tail." Blizzard said quietly. Swordfish tried to turn his head around to see the blood drops that had dripped down from the Seawing who had died above him. "That Seawing from the armory with the accent… He got shot by a soldier." Swordfish said slowly. "Pike." Seilbrenner said coarsely. Swordfish's mind immediately went to the Seawing student at Jade Mountain, but this was obviously a different Pike.
"I remember him when he was a young dragonet. I personally knew his mother." Seilbrenner said sadly. He was going to say more, but Vine suddenly ran up to them from the direction of the medics. "Vulture's conscious." She said.
Swordfish and Blizzard stood by Vulture's wounded body. The burns looked a little better, but he still looked pretty bad. His eye was now covered by cloth, but he was taking heavy and slow breaths. "Vulture!" Rattlesnake yelled, flying downward towards the crowd around the wounded Skywing. Rattlesnake had tears on her face. She had been crying. But about what?
Vulture stuck out his arm and Swordfish could see how burned it was. It looked like he could recover from that though. What looked irreversible was the eye. Swordfish couldn't see how bad it was under the cloth.
"Vulture… how do we get rid of the tanks?" Blizzard asked quietly. "How would he know?" Asked one of the medics. "No, he's thinking of something." Interrupted the Nightwing medic from earlier. Swordfish realized she had teardrop scales by her eyes.
"His mind is thinking about a wooden catapult." Said the Nightwing. "Something… his father made? His father showed him how to destroy it… with a plant… something spiky." Blizzard's head shot up. "Dragonflame cacti. The bombs that destroyed Possibility." Swordfish remembered hearing about how Sora, Clay's sister, had used dragonflame cacti to set off the bombs in the history cave.
"Roll… them under the tanks." The Nightwing said. Vulture nodded slightly, his working eye open slightly, tears coming out. "But where are we going to get dragonflame cacti here?" Rattlesnake asked. "Maybe… it doesn't have to be dragonflame cacti." Said a voice. Swordfish looked over to see Commander Seilbrenner had been listening in. "We have bombs that could be used." "We might need a lot." Blizzard said. "These aren't wooden catapults."
"I'll go talk with Commander Swamp." Seilbrenner said, and he ran off towards where the large Mudwing commander was.
Swordfish stared out over the battlefield. There was destruction and bodies lying all over the streets. This was war. This is what it looked like. The smoke was rising from the battle as the sounds of dragons roaring and gunshots rang out through the abandoned neighborhood. This was war. Swordfish looked up to see the one singular moon of this world.
Luna… if you're really there… please… let this end.
. . .
Anthony was hiding inside the trenches. Gabi was peering out over them with her rifle out. "Do you think the dragonets are okay?" Anthony asked her. "I'm not sure. I haven't seen them." Gabi replied. "I bet they got out safely." Anthony remembered when he last saw Rainfall. How one moment, everything was fine, and then the next, he was killed by Adnachiel.
"What do you think their goal is?" Gabi asked. "They don't seem like they're establishing a base of any sort. It's like they're trying to destroy something, and then get out." "Well, they're taking out dragons, that's for sure." Anthony said, looking at the corpse of a Grasswing lying nearby. "Well, Black Star does that a lot." Gabi said grimly. "There's nothing abnormal there."
"Still… you're right. Something's off. They're hanging back." Anthony said, gripping his rifle tighter. Black Star was known for their aggressive tactics. This defensive way of fighting was strange for them. Nevertheless, those tanks were posing a great threat to Old Monarchy. And the fact that they had them was catastrophic. How many more did they have? How easy are they to make?
Suddenly, a Seawing came bounding toward them. "Azure!" Gabi said, delighted. Azure was the dragon Gabi had ridden into battle once against the Camaelists. Since then, Anthony knew the two of them became close friends.
"I need to get you two off of the field. The commanders have come up with a way to destroy the armored tanks." Azure said, lowering herself down so the two soldiers could climb onto her armored back. As the two got on, Azure explained the plan.
"This injured Skywing dragonet said that if we throw bombs underneath the tanks, they should blow up. Underneath the tank is a weak spot. They're like big, metal, weird catapults. Underneath isn't supposed to be a place where you could attack, but if you roll something small enough under there, it can destroy the whole thing." Azure landed on the roof of a building. "But, obviously, a human can't get there fast enough without dying, so dragons are going to have to fly out there, staying low to the ground, and roll the bombs underneath."
"But… dragons are big targets." Gabi said. "The tanks will just shoot them, especially if they're close." Azure nodded. "And that's why we're picking up everyone alive off of the battlefield. We're going to drop bombs all over the battlefield and create enough smoke so that the drivers can't see what they would be shooting at. Also, dropping bombs is something to counter the tanks because Black Star has no way to fight in the air."
Anthony looked around the street to see dragons were taking people up to the roofs. The Black Star soldiers looked around in confusion, some of them figuring out something was going on and taking refuge inside the buildings.
Anthony watched as five dragons suddenly rose up from the Old Monarchy lines, holding bundles of bombs. They flew out over the battlefield and the explosions sounded as they dropped bomb after bomb onto the battlefield and onto the Black Star lines.
Anthony covered his ears from the noise and he saw Gabi and Azure doing the same. Through the muffled explosions, Anthony could hear the sounds of the tanks firing a few times. When the explosions were done, hardly anything could be seen.
Suddenly, the group heard the noise of a familiar yell. It was the unmistakable sound of Commander Swamp, the large Mudwing who had led so many victorious battles, yelling the Old Monarchy battle cry. The cry was echoed by the Old Monarchy army, made of humans and dragons alike. Anthony, Gabi, and Azure joined in.
Black Star responded with their own chant, but it was drowned out by the sounds of a massive explosion. Anthony could see the flames of the blast through the smoke as one of the tanks exploded. It was followed by the sound of the other tank firing twice, and the sound of a dragon roaring and people yelling.
Then, there was another explosion, and a cheer went up from the Old Monarchy lines. "They did it!" Gabi exclaimed. Azure looked worried. "I'll fly down, I would take the stairs down if I were you two. Use the safety of the building." Azure took to the sky and began to fly downward.
Gabi opened the door to go down the building and began to climb down the steps. Anthony trailed behind her, his mind worrying about Marie. Michael too, but Marie… wasn't as much of a fighter. He wondered what had happened to Swordfish and the others… if they were alright.
Gabi led the way down the stairs, with Anthony following behind her. The sounds of the commotion outside were muffled through the walls of the building. "Do you think we got both of the tanks?" Anthony asked. "I'm not sure." Gabi said, back to her loud voice. "We can look through the windows of the room below us."
Gabi quickly walked down the stairs, Anthony still keeping behind her. "How do we know it's safe to come out of this building?" He asked, anxious. "What if there's Black Star soldiers waiting for us? And they captured Azure?" "All the more reason to look." Gabi said, opening the door to one of the rooms on the second floor.
What happened next seemed to happen in slow motion. Gabi threw open the door. Next thing Anthony saw was her lying on the floor, a gunshot through her head, blood seeping into the carpet. The actual noise of the gun seemed to come after she was dead.
Anthony threw himself down to the ground and crawled to where he wouldn't be seen. "That was close." He heard a deep voice say. Anthony peeked around the corner to see a small, black-haired woman with a hood, holding a dagger and a mask. And behind her, out walked General Zane Jergens. The head of the Black Star military, holding a smoking gun. They had been watching the battle from the very windows Gabi was going to look out. Anthony's body froze.
"Verlassen is very split country." Said the woman. "Some of its people are righteous, some of them are dragon-trusting filth." "As expected of you Nikita, that is exactly right." Jergens said, kicking Gabi Sitz's dead body. Zane and Nikita walked away, leaving Anthony looking at Gabi's dead body with horror, her blood still draining into the carpet.
Anthony waited what felt like hours, but was probably only about ten minutes, until he moved out from behind the corner, and descended the rest of the stairs to get Gabi's dead body. He picked her up, not caring if he got blood on his hands.
When he exited the building from the back, he saw Azure coming out of an alley. She saw him holding Gabi's body and tears began to fall from her face. Anthony didn't cry. He just stared up into the night sky.
. . .
When the sun rose the next morning, Swordfishhad made an important decision.
Vulture was badly injured. Gabi was dead. Seilbrenner had nearly died. Swordfish had even witnessed Commander Swamp die. He had been the one to throw the bombs underneath the tanks, and after he destroyed the first one, the second one shot him as he threw the bombs beneath it. Old Monarchy had lost one of their great commanders.
Marie had been crushed by the death of her friend. Gabi's death didn't make Swordfish sad. It made him angry. All of it did. This place… was a world Swordfish liked more than Pyrrhia. This was a place where he actually felt… accepted. And some people and dragons wanted to tear it to pieces. They wanted to destroy this world of knowledge, beauty, and shared hospitality and make it their own. Swordfish had gone back to the site of the attack. Black Star had retreated after the tanks were destroyed, but their carnage and death still remained. All the dragons and people dead, the buildings and streets destroyed. And to think that back in Lochberg, this happened to the entire city, Swordfish was very angry.
And he was going to do something about it. He was going to fight back against the dragons and people who wanted to burn away this world's beauty.
. . .
Cassriel walked through the forest of Klykakni. It couldn't be far now. The Shack of Ipos changed location with the phases of the moon of this realm, but even still, it had to remain in this forest. And if you really need Ipos' knowledge, the shack finds you. Cassriel thought that he really did need this knowledge. Because if he didn't track down those dragonets, the King was going to end him.
Cassriel decided to go with his human form, bushwhacking through the forest's twisted branches and thorn bushes. Humans were good for this kind of thing.
Eventually, the rotting shack came into view, Cassriel could see the fire through its ancient windows. He stepped into the clearing, shaking a vine off of his leg. The Poet ran up to the door and used the knocker to knock three times.
"Come in!" Called the trembling voice of an elderly woman. Cassriel opened the door and walked into the shack. A fire was burning in the fire place and a pot of water was boiling above it. There was an old woman knitting a long scarf, rocking back and forth in a creaky rocking chair, her hair completely white.
"Are you Ipos? The demon who knows things to come and past?" Cassriel asked her. "That's not me, you youngster!" Said a voice from above Cassriel. He looked up to see a small finch perched on a beam that ran across the shack's roof. "Oh… terribly sorry Ipos." He said, and the finch hopped down and landed on the woman's shoulder. "Cassriel, right?" She said, and then started chuckling. "Oooh boy, you're in hot water, aren't you?"
"Yes, can you help me?" Cassriel asked. "Do you know if Swordfish of the Seawings and Vine of the Rainwings are in the year 1868?"
The finch seemed to start blinking rapidly. "Did you really need me to tell you that? You should know this for certain." She said. "Orrrr… are you too reluctant to admit your own mistakes?" Cassriel grit his teeth together. "So… it really was them… all that time ago…" He said to himself, and the finch nodded. "Little did you know that by having that vote, you would create such a problem." She said.
"My advice is to try and fix what you started. In any way you can. Accept your mistakes, and avoid a bigger problem." Ipos said. Cassriel stood up. "Where should I start?" Cassriel asked. "Find that huntress." Ipos said. "She could take them out right now, yet she doesn't. There's something stopping her."
Cassriel nodded, and thanked Ipos for the knowledge. "Now, get out of my shack." Ipos said, and Cassriel left as fast as he could.
Ipos hopped down and looked at the intricate knitting on the scarf. The little scenes of things that had happened. Certain events that had played out. The old woman suddenly lifted the scarf and wrapped it around her neck, making two scenes overlap each other. The present and the past, coming together. Oh, what a story this scarf was about to tell!