Chapter 2
Lord Migeal was talking about how Alanna the Lioness had once had to dance with women and kiss their hands when his face paled.
Shelaya looked at him and followed his gaze.
There standing in the middle of the dark snow covered road was a troupe of…bandits.
With a loud cry the leader of the bandits came upon Shelaya and her escorts with his group following.
"Shelaya!" Lord Migeal cried "Stay back, run child! Run, ride away!" He screamed as he was grossly skewered.
Shelaya watched in horror as the large number of fifteen men or so skewered her escorts, her blood ran ice cold through her veins.
"Goddess!" she tried to scream but only a desperately frightened whisper came out of her eleven year old mouth.
Her brain had by now disconnected from her body as she watched the bandits kill and rob her escorts and her beloved Lord Migeal. She watched herself in slow motion as she reached into her boots and grabbed eight daggers, she threw one by one as fast as she could at the fifteen men and turned Blaze around who was now snorting with fear.
She gulped and gave Blaze a 'hahya' and sent him back down the road. Shelaya urged Blaze to get away from the horrific sight that Shelaya refused to believe.
She felt Blaze pant with effort, and she dug her knees into his back and clung on, her blood was now uncomfortably hot, she slapped Blaze's damp behind to push him faster.
But in vain, Shelaya could hear a male voice panting behind her, and another horse thundering close. She risked a look back and was revolted by the hairy, black haired man who was galloping on his heavy horse behind her, he had dark eyes, dark skin and he had a feeling of evil around him, she shuddered and turned back to the road.
A whistle and an arrow came whistling past her ear, through the tangle of her hair and kept racing forward, a few second later, Shelaya felt a pain on her jaw line, she put her hand up to her right cheek and pulled her hands away to find a bright red colour moist on her hand. The arrow had grazed her across her jaw line; she would have a scar there forever.
No time for scars, she thought. The young child started weaving her horse in order to miss the next wave of coming arrows.
Shelaya remembered that coming this way, there had been a fork in the road, they had come from the right fork, the left fork was one leading into a forest, and Shelaya speculated that the one leading through the small forest was the one that lead to the Barony of Olua, the group had taken the Great north Road to the South, they had missed Trebond because that was farther north. She saw the fork in the road and veered to the left, she was now sweating extremely heavily and her heart was Definitely in her throat by now.
Her marone coloured horses neck was wet with horse sweat and the stench hit her as another odour hit her from above and to the right.
She looked up at the trees overhead, which made an arch over the road and glanced something flying over the thin part in the branches which showed the moon and the dark sky.
Shelaya strained her eye sight.
She saw a flitting image of some rather large moving object jump over the large trees, she didn't know what it was until it was too late.
Blaze reared in fear as the dark object jumped through the branches and infront of the road. Shelaya was thrown off her horse and landed in a thorn bush, she felt pinpricks on her behind and heard a bone crack in one of her thighs. She cried out in pain.
And looked towards the thing..
Gulping in fear she recognized the being as another of those ugly, frightening creatures: a Spidren. Her fear elevated to heights she never dreamed of reaching, she could hear the thundering of the bandits approaching the dark moonlit path.
Being a head strong girl, Shelaya did not faint…yet.
The Spidren slashed at Blaze and the horse kicked back, sending the Spidren sprawling on his back.
The horse turned to his master and saw she was in pain.
Shelaya's eyes were now dropping tears like a tap, from pain, from fear, from sadness and from anger. What she needed now was a saviour, or else…. she would die. She let her lungs and her hoarse voice loose, sending out an anguished scream towards the Barony of Olua.
Blaze gave the Spidren another kick in the head to send it unconscious, Shelaya saw the Bandits coming, her left thigh was screaming from pain, everything was happening at once, she couldn't handle it.
Her mind exploded in absolute pain and she drifted into a painless slumber
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Lord Migeal was talking about how Alanna the Lioness had once had to dance with women and kiss their hands when his face paled.
Shelaya looked at him and followed his gaze.
There standing in the middle of the dark snow covered road was a troupe of…bandits.
With a loud cry the leader of the bandits came upon Shelaya and her escorts with his group following.
"Shelaya!" Lord Migeal cried "Stay back, run child! Run, ride away!" He screamed as he was grossly skewered.
Shelaya watched in horror as the large number of fifteen men or so skewered her escorts, her blood ran ice cold through her veins.
"Goddess!" she tried to scream but only a desperately frightened whisper came out of her eleven year old mouth.
Her brain had by now disconnected from her body as she watched the bandits kill and rob her escorts and her beloved Lord Migeal. She watched herself in slow motion as she reached into her boots and grabbed eight daggers, she threw one by one as fast as she could at the fifteen men and turned Blaze around who was now snorting with fear.
She gulped and gave Blaze a 'hahya' and sent him back down the road. Shelaya urged Blaze to get away from the horrific sight that Shelaya refused to believe.
She felt Blaze pant with effort, and she dug her knees into his back and clung on, her blood was now uncomfortably hot, she slapped Blaze's damp behind to push him faster.
But in vain, Shelaya could hear a male voice panting behind her, and another horse thundering close. She risked a look back and was revolted by the hairy, black haired man who was galloping on his heavy horse behind her, he had dark eyes, dark skin and he had a feeling of evil around him, she shuddered and turned back to the road.
A whistle and an arrow came whistling past her ear, through the tangle of her hair and kept racing forward, a few second later, Shelaya felt a pain on her jaw line, she put her hand up to her right cheek and pulled her hands away to find a bright red colour moist on her hand. The arrow had grazed her across her jaw line; she would have a scar there forever.
No time for scars, she thought. The young child started weaving her horse in order to miss the next wave of coming arrows.
Shelaya remembered that coming this way, there had been a fork in the road, they had come from the right fork, the left fork was one leading into a forest, and Shelaya speculated that the one leading through the small forest was the one that lead to the Barony of Olua, the group had taken the Great north Road to the South, they had missed Trebond because that was farther north. She saw the fork in the road and veered to the left, she was now sweating extremely heavily and her heart was Definitely in her throat by now.
Her marone coloured horses neck was wet with horse sweat and the stench hit her as another odour hit her from above and to the right.
She looked up at the trees overhead, which made an arch over the road and glanced something flying over the thin part in the branches which showed the moon and the dark sky.
Shelaya strained her eye sight.
She saw a flitting image of some rather large moving object jump over the large trees, she didn't know what it was until it was too late.
Blaze reared in fear as the dark object jumped through the branches and infront of the road. Shelaya was thrown off her horse and landed in a thorn bush, she felt pinpricks on her behind and heard a bone crack in one of her thighs. She cried out in pain.
And looked towards the thing..
Gulping in fear she recognized the being as another of those ugly, frightening creatures: a Spidren. Her fear elevated to heights she never dreamed of reaching, she could hear the thundering of the bandits approaching the dark moonlit path.
Being a head strong girl, Shelaya did not faint…yet.
The Spidren slashed at Blaze and the horse kicked back, sending the Spidren sprawling on his back.
The horse turned to his master and saw she was in pain.
Shelaya's eyes were now dropping tears like a tap, from pain, from fear, from sadness and from anger. What she needed now was a saviour, or else…. she would die. She let her lungs and her hoarse voice loose, sending out an anguished scream towards the Barony of Olua.
Blaze gave the Spidren another kick in the head to send it unconscious, Shelaya saw the Bandits coming, her left thigh was screaming from pain, everything was happening at once, she couldn't handle it.
Her mind exploded in absolute pain and she drifted into a painless slumber
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