"Sailion." The young woman mused as she walked down the cobbled streets, breeze gently lifting her ponytail of midnight black hair behind her. Her skirt of fine black silk swished about her legs as she walked on. "Fortress city of the new world. Military stronghold and masterpiece of the realms." Wood houses and the sort lined the streets, colored with flower patches and small gardens. Shops lined the market sectors where anything and everything could be bought, for a price. The Theatre, the best in all the realms, boasted it's home here. Seaports and docks made up the northwestern end of this city, being on the sea of trades brought merchant ships from across the realms and even lands beyond the reach of man. Sailion Castle stood proudly in the center of it all. Tall, impregnable, and perfect, it stood towering over the city. Grey as aged granite and strong as dwarven steel. "Of all the places in the realms for a girl to disappear into, this is it." She said softly to herself as she made her way past the bustling crowds of shoppers and families. "At least here I'm safe." She calmly reassured herself as she glanced at the regularly stationed gaurdposts positioned amidst the shops.

Suddenly in a twinkling of an eye, it was gone. Shadows that had no masters. Things of darkness that should not be there. No one had seen him blink from shadow to shadow, but she had. The creature of nightmares that had plagued her since her eighteenth birthday, and she had seen him. She now knew he was here, and he would bring more to reclaim her soon. He could not touch her in the crowds, but she was no longer safe, she had seen him, and he had seen her too.

"Damn, how did he find me here?" She swore to herself as she forced her way through the crowds. "Two days, that's all I needed. Two days and the jubilee would take place. Two days and I would have enough magic to make you no more than a memory." The small Runestones glowed in her tightly clenched hand. "Two days and you will torment me no longer." She forced her way through the ebbing crowds as the sun lowered itself from the sky. Soon it would be dark. "He knows I'm here, but he'll have to find me first." The girl mumbled as she weaved about the crowds. This way and that she wandered. Silently and swiftly she moved. Why this creature was after her, she did not know. She only knew she would not be taken by it.