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~Chapter 11: Haven~

Being a page at Haven was harder than being punished. She had lessons all morning. And spent her afternoons either teaching weapons or having one of the soldiers show her whatever tricks he knew, and some knew a lot. After that she helped serve dinner and ate herself. A few nights every week she took watch hour. So by the time she got to her bed and lay down she was asleep.

"Lia," Kel asked one morning after breakfast. Lia was supposed to be listening to the lecture Kel was giving her on route planning. How to know which route was safest, fastest. Truthfully Lia was about to fall asleep.

"Hmm, yes?" Lia mumbled sitting up straight.

"Take today off."

"What?" She asked startled.

"Take today off. You're of no use to anyone if you're falling asleep all the time." Kel said getting up. "My advice is you take a nap to start with."

And Lia did just that. She woke up around mid afternoon and decided to take lunch in the city since the compounds cooks were preparing for dinner already.

It had been a while since she'd been in the city for enjoyment. Normally she was running errands or playing messenger. Today she was going to enjoy herself. Buying a bun from a street vender she strolled down the street looking at the various items for sale. Booth held an assortment of throwing stars. Lia bought a few as she had lost some in the spidren fight.

Wandering once again she bumped into someone. She felt her moneybag; slip out of her pocket and into his hand. She grabbed his wrist as he tried to make a hasty escape. She babbled apologies as she stole her and a few other people's purses back. He finally escaped and melted back into the crowd. Lia giggled and kept walking, he would be back when he noted what had happened.

Lia went to visit Sanki and Carrie, she only saw them in classes anymore. Taking her time to admire the chaos of the city streets it was late afternoon before she reached the building where Sanki and the gang she was in lived.

The gangs of Haven where mildly violent. They all lived in Haven for a reason, and respected that. The most they did was rub elbows and share a friendly banter. Being in their gangs meant you shared their food, clothing, and warmth. You took care of each other.

Lia smiled, standing outside Sanki's building was the boy she'd pick pocketed earlier. He was ranting about something, his arms where waving above his head and his face was slightly red. Jaelik spotted her first and came running up to her barking. Carri came running after him.

"Hey boy." Lia said scooping the dog up into her arms. "Hey Carri." Carri grabbed her hand and towed her towards the building. Babbling about something, in another language of course. Living in a gang house Carri had picked up parts of languages and was now having them straightened out. She knew three languages fluently and two others semi-fluently. Lia found it amusing.

"Lia! I haven't seen you in ages." Sanki said standing up. 

"You!" The boy yelled pointing.

"Hello again. I know, I've been so busy it's awful." Lia said sitting down on the stairs next to Sanki.

"I only see you in class and then after you run off to do something else. I find it slightly amusing actually." She said with a grin. "How do you know David? He obviously recognizes you from somewhere." Sanki said gesturing at the still gaping boy.

"Oh I ran into him earlier today." Lia said with an evil grin.

"She pick pocketed me." He yelled, outraged. Carri climbed onto her lap and proceeded to watch.

"Wait, she pickpocket you? I thought you were the pickpocket." Sanki said bewildered.

"I know!" he said and began pacing. Jaelik paced with him like a mime.

"He pick pocketed me, so I retaliated. No big deal." Lia said, bouncing. Carri began babbling in another language. It sounded like Scanran, but you could never be sure with this one.

"You tried to pickpocket Lia? Shame on you. You're not supposed to steal from friends." Sanki said scolding him.

"And how was I supposed to know she was a friend when I've never met her? Can we have our money back? We need to eat dinner." He said directing the last part at Lia. She merely nodded and threw the bags at him.

"Thanks, I'm going to get dinner then. Wanna come Carri?" She nodded and climbed off Lia's lap to walk next to him and started babbling in Scanran again, except this time he babbled back.

"He's a Scanran?" Lia asked shocked.

"Yeah, he's also our thief lord." Sanki said sighing.

"You like him." Lia stated.

"Yes, but it doesn't matter. He'll never look twice at me." She said, and sighed. She seemed to be doing a lot of that lately. It made Lia smile.

"I wouldn't say that. Kanti says that when a boy likes you he's nice to your siblings." Lia said. Kanti had said that, but it had been while babbling about Erikk. And David did seem to like her.

"So David's the thief lord?" Lia asked trying to change the subject.

"Yeah, he takes care of everyone very well. He's very good. He tries to make sure no one but him has to steal anything. He even is getting people jobs. I wanted a job but he said I had to take care of Carri. I'm the only person with a younger sibling. It's not fair.' She sighed again. Lia thought about it for a minuet.

"I may be able to get you a job in the kitchens up in headquarters. They love little kids. And if they don't want Jaelik in the kitchens I could watch him."

"Would you? That would be wonderful." Sanki said eye's huge.

"I'm back. You're still here eh?" He asked Lia. His gaze quickly switched to Sanki. He had bought Carri a cookie that she was eating in tiny bites. Jaelik had a meaty bone that Lia knew was stolen.

"You know what, I don't think you two were introduced properly. David this is Yazlia, Lia for short. Lia, this is David. Are you going to be nice to each other now?" She said looking pointedly at her two friends who nodded at her.

"Well, I'll come see you tomorrow when I know more about the job. Bye Carri." Lia said to the little girl who had latched onto her leg. Saying goodbye to David she began the long walk back to her rooms. Noting she'd missed dinner already she walked into the nearest in and sat down and ordered tonight's dinner. Which turned out to be some form of meat and mashed potatoes and gravy.

Waiting for the waitress to get back with her food Lia looked around. Obviously she had landed herself in some sort of a thief den. People moved in and out dropping off little bags behind the counter and then moving back outside or to a table with a plate of food. Lia sighed; somehow she always managed to end up in the more interesting places.

"Well hello there. Haven't seen you around this joint much, ya new?" A man had sauntered over and sat his bottom on her table. Great. Just what I need, some jumped up jerk to ruin my day. Lia thought bitterly.

 "Look, I'm not interested. So move on." Lia said, hoping he wasn't going to take this personally. He leaned over and whispered in her ear.

"Look girly, see those boys over there." Lia glanced over, a group of disgusting looking men grinning at her, and her guest "They bet me tonight's entire haul that I couldn't get you tonight. So do me a favor, spend the night." Lia swallowed a mouthful of bile.

"No." Lia stood up. "Forget that dinner." Lia said to the waitress.  Exiting the hotel she trudged back through the city. Even though it was nighttime people moved about everywhere. Cutting down an alley Lia knew cut travel time in half she was ambushed. 

Throwing off the man who had jumped on her back off. She shrank into a fighting stance. Pulling out her knives she prepared herself for a long battle.

Lia was using defense moves. She didn't want to seriously injure any one. These men weren't actual fighters; they were trained to kill animals not people. One of the men was actually good, Lia was surprised. Thumping another man on the temple gave her three more men to deal with.

One man stepped forwards. It was like they were taking turns. He ran at her, she threw him into a wall. He slumped to the ground, he would need medical attention.

One of the men fled when Lia turned around. Focusing on the last man Lia noticed he had an odd shimmer around him. Every time he moved a certain way he glinted an eerie green color.

"I'm going to kill you." He whispered as they circled each other. Lia didn't respond, she didn't want to bother to come up with some cynical remark to yell back. That and she found it pointless.

He lunged, Lia blocked. They did that for a good five minuets before Lia found an opening. She kicked him in the gut and hit him with the point of her dagger. He went down. His body blazed with a green light before vanishing entirely.

Lia ran back to the keep. She didn't know what had just happened and she wanted an explanation. Entering through the gates Lia ran towards the main library. Kel was almost always there if she wasn't in a meeting. and of late most of her meetings had been done in the library. Opening the door Lia's body flew into the room and fell over.

"Lia, are you alright?" Kel asked helping her up.

 "Someone just tried to kill me. Or, rather, several someone's." Kel's eyes had grown large while hearing the news.

"Are you positive?"

"The guy said he was going to kill me." Lia said bluntly. Someone handed her a glass of water, Lia gulped it down.

"Thank you."

"Where were you?" Kel asked.

"At seventh street and Ganeil, in the back alley. Some of them may still be laying there."

"Did you kill anyone?" Kel asked kindly.

"I don't think so, one of them I threw into a door. And one of them just, vanished. I don't understand how. He just disappeared." Lia said with wonder.

"Vanished how?" Kel asked. Lia felt like she was being interrogated.

"There was a flash of green light and then he vanished."

"Get Numair and the Lioness here, I'll need them. Lia you are the fifth person who has run into this green vanishing light thing this week. Send a squad out to the location and bring back whatever you find. Lia, go to bed." Lia nodded and left. Falling asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow.

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