Another Side
Chapter 1
"David! Be quiet ... I'm listening" Cassandra whispered. "But what's in there listen to, Cassy?" David blurted. The two children were scrunched up against the door, listening with their ears softly on the door. It was nighttime and David was confused wondering why Cassandra had woke him up to follow Lyra Belacqua to into the retirement room, which he knew strictly no one was supposed to be and strangely enough they saw Lyra sneak into the retirement room, before people started coming in as well.
David's daemon Fylorie shuddered lightly and turned into a hamster; her most favored form and crawled into David's shirt pocket in some way listening to the conversation inside the retirement room.
"Is... that a severed child?" said one of the voices inside.
David heard an intake of air inside the room, assuming it was a gasp at what they were looking at, "Severed child..."
"Shush, David!" Cassy put her finger to her lips and glared at David, her daemon Nenniver, a black and orange cat sitting warily watching out for anyone coming.
David listened again, they seemed to move to another subject and the scholars or least he thought they were, had been talking about dust. He just assumed they moved onto the rat problem in the upper stairway.
Cassy sighed and lifted her ear from the door and whispered, "They're just talking about this dust stuff... nothing fun."
"They said 'severed child' what is that?" said David.
"I dunno... I didn't catch it, because of a certain someone, babbling."
David stuck his tongue out, and then he heard footsteps coming, Nenniver's tail shot up and he leaped into Cassy's arms.
"Someone's coming!" David whispered urgently.
Cassy shifted Nenniver into one arm and grabbed David's hand with the other, rose up and pulled David to his feet and then they ran as quietly as they could down another hall and into a room that was barely lit, only enough to see their silhouettes and their faces in the dark, David tripped over something and fell on the floor along with Cassy and Fylorie falling out of his pocket, luckily not attracting attention.
The footsteps had disappeared by then, since they were far off from being noticed.
"Phew... that was close, I think it was the man servant," Said David as he felt around the dark room for something to hold onto so he could stand up. His fingers laced around a wooden cylinder, David pulled then the lights flickered on. David froze right there, blinking.
The room was probably a wine room, seeing Tokay and other various drinks all around the place, stacked into racks and shelves.
David felt a playful pinch on his shoulder from behind,
"Good job Davy," Cassy said with a grin.
"Ah... shut up, Cassy."
David then heard a little crash of glass breaking, and he looked to it. Fylorie and Nenniver had tackled each other playfully sending a wine bottle off one of the racks and crashing onto floor, and wine splattering all over Nenniver, he grumbled. Fylorie was gigging at him madly until Nenniver batted some wine at her.
David blinked as he heard the footsteps from earlier returning their threat to them as they started getting louder and louder.
"The window! Quick!" said Cassy, David grabbed Cassy's hand while taking Fylorie with his other hand and leaped out head-first out the window and into a bush.
"Ow! Prickly!" David almost yelled, as they landed in a thorn patch.
Cassy was strangely giggling and pulling out the thorns on his back, she had landed safely just avoiding the thorns.
"Oh quit whining!" Cassy still giggling was plucking out the thorns.
David crawled out of the bush, with Fylorie squirming in his hands as each thorn was plucked out.
"Bleh..." David sighed as the last thorn was plucked out.
David heard the door behind them open and Cassy and David both ducked under the bush, they heard it was the man servant again with his dog daemon, the gentle feet of the dog walking in with his tongue breathing in and out excitingly.
David heard a sigh from the man servant before David heard the door open and close again.
David looked to the wall seeing Nenniver licking his coat of the wine, several times shuddering with a grimace at the taste.
David set Fylorie down as he stood up stretching his back, Fylorie turning into a butterfly and flying up to his ear and snuggling just behind it, under David's hair.
"So what now, Miss bossy?" David teased with a yawn.
Cassy shrugged picking up Nenniver who turned into a rabbit twitching his nose, "Dunno."
"Hey, what's this?" David bent down to a door knob that was sticking out of the ground, just under the bush, probably uncovered by David's fall, "This wasn't here, was it? Hmm... maybe it leads somewhere cool!"
Cassy looked uninterested until a small crack of a window was heard above them; they looked and saw the mean old face of a scholar.
"Hey! You kids! What do you think your doing?" the cranky scholar shouted at them.
Cassy gave a shriek shoving David aside, opening the new found door at the bush then rushed down the stairs it led.
David blinked nervously then looked up again, "Uhhh, just watching the moon rise, sir, buh-bye!" and with that, David bolted down after Cassy, grabbing the open door and slamming it shut.
"Jeeeze," David coughed. He heard some scuffling against the wall just behind him, assuming it was Cassy.
"No kidding! It's pitch black down here!" Cassy grimaced in the dark.
"Calm down, I got a plan," Said David turning his head slightly whispering, "Fyl, you still there?"
"As always, David, I'm right behind your right ear," his daemon whispered in his ear.
"Okay," David continued "Could you turn into a bat or something can see in the dark?"
David felt Fylorie shudder and guessed she grimaced at the thought.
"You know I hate bats," Fylorie shuddered again.
"You got a better idea?"
"No..."
David felt his daemon lift off his ear and in the dark he could hear the gentle scream of a bat flying around not too far away though, then after a moment Fylorie came back and perched on his shoulder like a bird, or was it a bird? Darkness sure wasn't going tell him.
"What'd you see?" said David.
"A corridor, go down from the stairs until you touch a wall, then it goes to your right down a hall, with doors at the sides and another door at the end."
David nodded slowly, and then slipped down to Cassy feeling around in front of him to not crash into something.
"Ow!" Cassandra cried, "That's my foot!"
"Sorry"
"Where are we supposed to go?"
"Turn to our right and there should be just a door there"
"Okay" Cassy started sliding against the wall with Nenniver as a cat looking around.
David was right behind her not even able to see anything like he was born blind. Moments passed and David whispered to his daemon, "How long till the end?"
"A couple of meters, don't worry, there's nothing in your way..." Fylorie said it with a sort of mischievousness that David couldn't pinpoint.
"Are you totally sure about that because-ouch!" David hit a steel pipe running across the hall, him being taller than Cassy; it hit him and not her.
"That, my friend is for making fun of me this morning," Fylorie giggled sinisterly.
"Har... har... didja know daemons are capable of revenge, Cassy?" David grinned rubbing his head.
David heard Cassy giggling hysterically then all of a sudden, David thinking Cassy was still moving but apparently she wasn't and he crashed into her, sending her to trip over something with a shriek and David heard some splashes of water just in front of him.
"This is the second time I've gotten into something wet!" Nenniver grumbled.
"This is totally gross," said Cassy.
"Cassy? Are you okay? I can't see you," said David.
Cassandra blinked as she felt a hand touch over her face, she waved David's hand away and stood up, "I'm fine... be care-" she gets cut off in mid-sentence as a torch lit up at the bend, that wasn't there before.
"And you didn't see that?" Nenniver said to Fylorie.
"No, bats don't exactly... 'See'"
Cassandra looked to David, now being able to see his silhouette, took his hand and ran silently back the way they came, "Quick! I felt a big enough crack that we might be able to squeeze through."
"Okay where is it?" David said panicking.
"Just here!" Cassy stopped, Nenniver turning into a moth, and settled in her hair. Cassandra sucked in her stomach and dove into the crack sideways when she finally felt it along the wall; she barely could breath, "Hurry! It's tight!"
Cassandra saw Fylorie turn into a hamster and dive into David's shirt pocket right before David sucked in his stomach and slid into the crack beside Cassy.
Cassy hissed at the torch light in the hall, growing brighter and brighter, footsteps louder and louder. Cassy squeezed in until she felt she was about to pass out, then stopped, wincing trying to breath.
Nenniver still watching out the crack as Cassy struggled to breathe with her eyes closed, the crack had gotten narrow as Cassy had went in too deep.
After what seemed like an eternity, Cassy heard the footsteps pass them and get quieter and quieter till the person had gone.
"Nenny? Are you still there?" Cassy whispered.
"Mmhmm..." Nenniver grunted, he finally worked out of a tight space and climbed on Cassy's shoulder.
"It was the Master, what was he doing down here?" Nenniver said.
Cassy shrugged faintly, "I don't know and don't care right now, I can't breathe!"
Cassy opened her eyes seeing David already inching out of the crack, before the light from the torch faded and it became pitch black again.
David inched out until he was at the end then pushed and he popped right out and tumbled on the floor, "Oof!"
He got back up taking in air like he had been underwater drowning helplessly.
"Cassy?" David said worriedly, though he couldn't see much in darkness.
"Yeah ... I'm still in the crack... and... I think.... I think my foot's stuck....David..." Cassy was gasping out the words like she was about to die.
"Wait right there," David went to the door that they took to come down, and he opened it wide to the moonlight so light shined down the corridor to the crack Cassy was still stuck in.
David almost ran back and then kneeled to look at were Cassy's foot was, her foot had been jammed in a tight crevice at the bottom of the crack in the wall, "Be calm your foot's wedge ... here" he got down and reached into the crack pulling at Cassy's foot turning it a bit to loosen it.
"Okay this might hurt a bit," David said patting her foot, and then he yanked hard, because there was nothing else he could do.
Cassy yelped and then she popped out of the crack as he did, but David caught her before she hit the ground.
"Ooww... "Cassy rolled off him and held her foot, "I think it's ... twisted or something," Cassy was breathing air greedily as David was when he got out of the crack in the wall.
"Yeah, I think we should head back to the Dorm dontcha' think?" David took Cassy's arm and lifted it over his neck and lifted her up.
"Yeah... maybe a nurse can look it over," said Cassy.
David helped her up to the door, and David stuck his head out first, looking around, he didn't see anyone nearby, obviously everyone was sleeping.
"Okay, the coast is clear, we can head into the alley across from here then walk to the Dorm, what'dya think?" said David.
"Sure, as long as we don't get caught." Cassy said as Nenniver turned into a black raven and flew into the air checking around, not going too far from Cassy.
David helped up Cassy and they limped slowly but swiftly to the alley way across from where they were after David shut the door to the underground basement.
David glanced out of the other side of the alley, seeing just a big empty space for loading ships, and a dock, and there was only one ship there: a big ship probably for storage of goods and food.
"Okay there's just a dock ahead, and a ship, but there's no lights so I think we can sneak across," David pointed out.
Cassy nodded limped beside him, obviously having no objections, just a little pain.
But just as David helped Cassy a bit into the open, a man darkened with shadow came out of the boat and pointed at them.
"They seen us!" whispered David.
Cassy moved back into the alley but bumped into a huge brawn man with a dog daemon, she shrieked, and then she and David limped forward into the dead middle of the loading zone, the place littered with plenty of crates to hide in.
"Who are they?" said David suspiciously.
Just then Nenniver started cawing loudly in the air pushing his limits, Cassy crumpled down at the pain clutching her chest gritting her teeth she managed some words, "I... have... no idea."
David looked around thinking to take Cassy and hide in one of the big crates but then, more men came out of the adjacent alleyways, and more men coming out of the boat, all of them had dog daemons. They surrounded the two children cutting off any means of escape for them.
David grunted then let go of Cassy standing up at all of them, Fylorie felt aggression and jumped out of David's pocket and turned into a wolverine ready to defend themselves if necessary, David worked up some courage and talked, "Okay I don't know who you people are, but I have an injured friend here and it would be just great if you let us both pass here... we didn't mean to break into your territory..." Their faces had become all visible now in the moonlight, looking stern and wanting something. "We'll take care of you" one of them said simply, but David couldn't find who.
So he simply responded to all of them, "Sorry, I can take care of her myself, just get out of the way."
Cassy leaned on his leg, Nenniver had finally come back down from the pain and was panting on Cassy's lap, then he shot back up again weakly and turned into a small wildcat, hissing warningly.
"Go on... leave us, you people!" Nenniver growled at the men's daemons.
Fylorie with her claws staring at each dog in the eye, hard to find which one might attack first.
"Go away!" David almost shouted, and then one of the dogs's made a fake move for Fylorie, fooled she moved to defend but another dog, came up on her left and snagged Fylorie in it's gruesome sharp jaws, pinning a wild deathly shake on Fyl; Fyl screaming lowly, as her back almost broke by the vicious attempt, her claws slashing everywhere; her eyes were closed in fear, she couldn't see.
David clutched his chest wildly at the pain searing through his body, and then he crumpled to the ground, shouting, "Stop!"
Cassy screamed, clinging onto David, as the dog who had Fyl, kept shaking David's daemon, unsure if she was dead or alive now, the other dogs had gathered around Fylorie and the dog, as if to stop Nenniver from interfering.
Nenniver growled and dove into the frenzy, slashing and biting at the other dog's faces mercilessly, the dog's broke apart, and the one with Fyl, dropped her. Nenniver caught her on his back and quickly delivered her back to David, she was in bad shape: she was bleeding all over her back, and her arm was broken, and she was barely breathing just as David was, and then he past out along with Fyl in his arms.
Cassy still clinging tightly, started to cry, Nenniver hissing and spitting at the dogs.
It wasn't long before the dogs started to attack Nenniver. But Cassy grabbed Nenniver in her arms before anyone of them could strike and she waved a fist at them defensibly, "Get out of here you beasts! Go on!" Cassy cried.
The men had now closed in so much they were touching, then Cassy felt grubby hands all around her, grabbing at her, and David, lifting them away, she kicked and screamed everything started to seem slow, she saw one of the men taking out a small pouch, lifting a small pinch of powder in his hand, she tried to turn away but it was too late, the man threw it at her face, she reluctantly inhaled the powder, and then she fell asleep with the last of her energy, unaware of where they would be, next.
Chapter 1
"David! Be quiet ... I'm listening" Cassandra whispered. "But what's in there listen to, Cassy?" David blurted. The two children were scrunched up against the door, listening with their ears softly on the door. It was nighttime and David was confused wondering why Cassandra had woke him up to follow Lyra Belacqua to into the retirement room, which he knew strictly no one was supposed to be and strangely enough they saw Lyra sneak into the retirement room, before people started coming in as well.
David's daemon Fylorie shuddered lightly and turned into a hamster; her most favored form and crawled into David's shirt pocket in some way listening to the conversation inside the retirement room.
"Is... that a severed child?" said one of the voices inside.
David heard an intake of air inside the room, assuming it was a gasp at what they were looking at, "Severed child..."
"Shush, David!" Cassy put her finger to her lips and glared at David, her daemon Nenniver, a black and orange cat sitting warily watching out for anyone coming.
David listened again, they seemed to move to another subject and the scholars or least he thought they were, had been talking about dust. He just assumed they moved onto the rat problem in the upper stairway.
Cassy sighed and lifted her ear from the door and whispered, "They're just talking about this dust stuff... nothing fun."
"They said 'severed child' what is that?" said David.
"I dunno... I didn't catch it, because of a certain someone, babbling."
David stuck his tongue out, and then he heard footsteps coming, Nenniver's tail shot up and he leaped into Cassy's arms.
"Someone's coming!" David whispered urgently.
Cassy shifted Nenniver into one arm and grabbed David's hand with the other, rose up and pulled David to his feet and then they ran as quietly as they could down another hall and into a room that was barely lit, only enough to see their silhouettes and their faces in the dark, David tripped over something and fell on the floor along with Cassy and Fylorie falling out of his pocket, luckily not attracting attention.
The footsteps had disappeared by then, since they were far off from being noticed.
"Phew... that was close, I think it was the man servant," Said David as he felt around the dark room for something to hold onto so he could stand up. His fingers laced around a wooden cylinder, David pulled then the lights flickered on. David froze right there, blinking.
The room was probably a wine room, seeing Tokay and other various drinks all around the place, stacked into racks and shelves.
David felt a playful pinch on his shoulder from behind,
"Good job Davy," Cassy said with a grin.
"Ah... shut up, Cassy."
David then heard a little crash of glass breaking, and he looked to it. Fylorie and Nenniver had tackled each other playfully sending a wine bottle off one of the racks and crashing onto floor, and wine splattering all over Nenniver, he grumbled. Fylorie was gigging at him madly until Nenniver batted some wine at her.
David blinked as he heard the footsteps from earlier returning their threat to them as they started getting louder and louder.
"The window! Quick!" said Cassy, David grabbed Cassy's hand while taking Fylorie with his other hand and leaped out head-first out the window and into a bush.
"Ow! Prickly!" David almost yelled, as they landed in a thorn patch.
Cassy was strangely giggling and pulling out the thorns on his back, she had landed safely just avoiding the thorns.
"Oh quit whining!" Cassy still giggling was plucking out the thorns.
David crawled out of the bush, with Fylorie squirming in his hands as each thorn was plucked out.
"Bleh..." David sighed as the last thorn was plucked out.
David heard the door behind them open and Cassy and David both ducked under the bush, they heard it was the man servant again with his dog daemon, the gentle feet of the dog walking in with his tongue breathing in and out excitingly.
David heard a sigh from the man servant before David heard the door open and close again.
David looked to the wall seeing Nenniver licking his coat of the wine, several times shuddering with a grimace at the taste.
David set Fylorie down as he stood up stretching his back, Fylorie turning into a butterfly and flying up to his ear and snuggling just behind it, under David's hair.
"So what now, Miss bossy?" David teased with a yawn.
Cassy shrugged picking up Nenniver who turned into a rabbit twitching his nose, "Dunno."
"Hey, what's this?" David bent down to a door knob that was sticking out of the ground, just under the bush, probably uncovered by David's fall, "This wasn't here, was it? Hmm... maybe it leads somewhere cool!"
Cassy looked uninterested until a small crack of a window was heard above them; they looked and saw the mean old face of a scholar.
"Hey! You kids! What do you think your doing?" the cranky scholar shouted at them.
Cassy gave a shriek shoving David aside, opening the new found door at the bush then rushed down the stairs it led.
David blinked nervously then looked up again, "Uhhh, just watching the moon rise, sir, buh-bye!" and with that, David bolted down after Cassy, grabbing the open door and slamming it shut.
"Jeeeze," David coughed. He heard some scuffling against the wall just behind him, assuming it was Cassy.
"No kidding! It's pitch black down here!" Cassy grimaced in the dark.
"Calm down, I got a plan," Said David turning his head slightly whispering, "Fyl, you still there?"
"As always, David, I'm right behind your right ear," his daemon whispered in his ear.
"Okay," David continued "Could you turn into a bat or something can see in the dark?"
David felt Fylorie shudder and guessed she grimaced at the thought.
"You know I hate bats," Fylorie shuddered again.
"You got a better idea?"
"No..."
David felt his daemon lift off his ear and in the dark he could hear the gentle scream of a bat flying around not too far away though, then after a moment Fylorie came back and perched on his shoulder like a bird, or was it a bird? Darkness sure wasn't going tell him.
"What'd you see?" said David.
"A corridor, go down from the stairs until you touch a wall, then it goes to your right down a hall, with doors at the sides and another door at the end."
David nodded slowly, and then slipped down to Cassy feeling around in front of him to not crash into something.
"Ow!" Cassandra cried, "That's my foot!"
"Sorry"
"Where are we supposed to go?"
"Turn to our right and there should be just a door there"
"Okay" Cassy started sliding against the wall with Nenniver as a cat looking around.
David was right behind her not even able to see anything like he was born blind. Moments passed and David whispered to his daemon, "How long till the end?"
"A couple of meters, don't worry, there's nothing in your way..." Fylorie said it with a sort of mischievousness that David couldn't pinpoint.
"Are you totally sure about that because-ouch!" David hit a steel pipe running across the hall, him being taller than Cassy; it hit him and not her.
"That, my friend is for making fun of me this morning," Fylorie giggled sinisterly.
"Har... har... didja know daemons are capable of revenge, Cassy?" David grinned rubbing his head.
David heard Cassy giggling hysterically then all of a sudden, David thinking Cassy was still moving but apparently she wasn't and he crashed into her, sending her to trip over something with a shriek and David heard some splashes of water just in front of him.
"This is the second time I've gotten into something wet!" Nenniver grumbled.
"This is totally gross," said Cassy.
"Cassy? Are you okay? I can't see you," said David.
Cassandra blinked as she felt a hand touch over her face, she waved David's hand away and stood up, "I'm fine... be care-" she gets cut off in mid-sentence as a torch lit up at the bend, that wasn't there before.
"And you didn't see that?" Nenniver said to Fylorie.
"No, bats don't exactly... 'See'"
Cassandra looked to David, now being able to see his silhouette, took his hand and ran silently back the way they came, "Quick! I felt a big enough crack that we might be able to squeeze through."
"Okay where is it?" David said panicking.
"Just here!" Cassy stopped, Nenniver turning into a moth, and settled in her hair. Cassandra sucked in her stomach and dove into the crack sideways when she finally felt it along the wall; she barely could breath, "Hurry! It's tight!"
Cassandra saw Fylorie turn into a hamster and dive into David's shirt pocket right before David sucked in his stomach and slid into the crack beside Cassy.
Cassy hissed at the torch light in the hall, growing brighter and brighter, footsteps louder and louder. Cassy squeezed in until she felt she was about to pass out, then stopped, wincing trying to breath.
Nenniver still watching out the crack as Cassy struggled to breathe with her eyes closed, the crack had gotten narrow as Cassy had went in too deep.
After what seemed like an eternity, Cassy heard the footsteps pass them and get quieter and quieter till the person had gone.
"Nenny? Are you still there?" Cassy whispered.
"Mmhmm..." Nenniver grunted, he finally worked out of a tight space and climbed on Cassy's shoulder.
"It was the Master, what was he doing down here?" Nenniver said.
Cassy shrugged faintly, "I don't know and don't care right now, I can't breathe!"
Cassy opened her eyes seeing David already inching out of the crack, before the light from the torch faded and it became pitch black again.
David inched out until he was at the end then pushed and he popped right out and tumbled on the floor, "Oof!"
He got back up taking in air like he had been underwater drowning helplessly.
"Cassy?" David said worriedly, though he couldn't see much in darkness.
"Yeah ... I'm still in the crack... and... I think.... I think my foot's stuck....David..." Cassy was gasping out the words like she was about to die.
"Wait right there," David went to the door that they took to come down, and he opened it wide to the moonlight so light shined down the corridor to the crack Cassy was still stuck in.
David almost ran back and then kneeled to look at were Cassy's foot was, her foot had been jammed in a tight crevice at the bottom of the crack in the wall, "Be calm your foot's wedge ... here" he got down and reached into the crack pulling at Cassy's foot turning it a bit to loosen it.
"Okay this might hurt a bit," David said patting her foot, and then he yanked hard, because there was nothing else he could do.
Cassy yelped and then she popped out of the crack as he did, but David caught her before she hit the ground.
"Ooww... "Cassy rolled off him and held her foot, "I think it's ... twisted or something," Cassy was breathing air greedily as David was when he got out of the crack in the wall.
"Yeah, I think we should head back to the Dorm dontcha' think?" David took Cassy's arm and lifted it over his neck and lifted her up.
"Yeah... maybe a nurse can look it over," said Cassy.
David helped her up to the door, and David stuck his head out first, looking around, he didn't see anyone nearby, obviously everyone was sleeping.
"Okay, the coast is clear, we can head into the alley across from here then walk to the Dorm, what'dya think?" said David.
"Sure, as long as we don't get caught." Cassy said as Nenniver turned into a black raven and flew into the air checking around, not going too far from Cassy.
David helped up Cassy and they limped slowly but swiftly to the alley way across from where they were after David shut the door to the underground basement.
David glanced out of the other side of the alley, seeing just a big empty space for loading ships, and a dock, and there was only one ship there: a big ship probably for storage of goods and food.
"Okay there's just a dock ahead, and a ship, but there's no lights so I think we can sneak across," David pointed out.
Cassy nodded limped beside him, obviously having no objections, just a little pain.
But just as David helped Cassy a bit into the open, a man darkened with shadow came out of the boat and pointed at them.
"They seen us!" whispered David.
Cassy moved back into the alley but bumped into a huge brawn man with a dog daemon, she shrieked, and then she and David limped forward into the dead middle of the loading zone, the place littered with plenty of crates to hide in.
"Who are they?" said David suspiciously.
Just then Nenniver started cawing loudly in the air pushing his limits, Cassy crumpled down at the pain clutching her chest gritting her teeth she managed some words, "I... have... no idea."
David looked around thinking to take Cassy and hide in one of the big crates but then, more men came out of the adjacent alleyways, and more men coming out of the boat, all of them had dog daemons. They surrounded the two children cutting off any means of escape for them.
David grunted then let go of Cassy standing up at all of them, Fylorie felt aggression and jumped out of David's pocket and turned into a wolverine ready to defend themselves if necessary, David worked up some courage and talked, "Okay I don't know who you people are, but I have an injured friend here and it would be just great if you let us both pass here... we didn't mean to break into your territory..." Their faces had become all visible now in the moonlight, looking stern and wanting something. "We'll take care of you" one of them said simply, but David couldn't find who.
So he simply responded to all of them, "Sorry, I can take care of her myself, just get out of the way."
Cassy leaned on his leg, Nenniver had finally come back down from the pain and was panting on Cassy's lap, then he shot back up again weakly and turned into a small wildcat, hissing warningly.
"Go on... leave us, you people!" Nenniver growled at the men's daemons.
Fylorie with her claws staring at each dog in the eye, hard to find which one might attack first.
"Go away!" David almost shouted, and then one of the dogs's made a fake move for Fylorie, fooled she moved to defend but another dog, came up on her left and snagged Fylorie in it's gruesome sharp jaws, pinning a wild deathly shake on Fyl; Fyl screaming lowly, as her back almost broke by the vicious attempt, her claws slashing everywhere; her eyes were closed in fear, she couldn't see.
David clutched his chest wildly at the pain searing through his body, and then he crumpled to the ground, shouting, "Stop!"
Cassy screamed, clinging onto David, as the dog who had Fyl, kept shaking David's daemon, unsure if she was dead or alive now, the other dogs had gathered around Fylorie and the dog, as if to stop Nenniver from interfering.
Nenniver growled and dove into the frenzy, slashing and biting at the other dog's faces mercilessly, the dog's broke apart, and the one with Fyl, dropped her. Nenniver caught her on his back and quickly delivered her back to David, she was in bad shape: she was bleeding all over her back, and her arm was broken, and she was barely breathing just as David was, and then he past out along with Fyl in his arms.
Cassy still clinging tightly, started to cry, Nenniver hissing and spitting at the dogs.
It wasn't long before the dogs started to attack Nenniver. But Cassy grabbed Nenniver in her arms before anyone of them could strike and she waved a fist at them defensibly, "Get out of here you beasts! Go on!" Cassy cried.
The men had now closed in so much they were touching, then Cassy felt grubby hands all around her, grabbing at her, and David, lifting them away, she kicked and screamed everything started to seem slow, she saw one of the men taking out a small pouch, lifting a small pinch of powder in his hand, she tried to turn away but it was too late, the man threw it at her face, she reluctantly inhaled the powder, and then she fell asleep with the last of her energy, unaware of where they would be, next.
