Chapter Three:
Just rewards
Vidin awoke in a dark damp cell. Chained to the wall, the first thing that alerted his senses was the smell of pain, torture, and death. He begun to move a bit and realized he was chained to the wall. He got to his feet and walked about as far as his chain would let him. At first he was surprised to see that he was in a cell, then remembered what had happened. It didn't take Vidin long before someone came down to his cell. "Awake are we?" Said an ignorant looking guard with a look a little boy usually gets, as he's torturing insects. "Your only alive because the princess had mercy on you" said the guard "the queen however wants to see you gutted and burned while your still breathing" at this the guard smiled. Vidin didn't say anything just looked towards his cell window. The guards smile disappeared into a snarl "Well SAY something you filthy Archear!" Vidin still continued to look away. "DON'T YOU DARE IGNORE ME YOU SCUM!" the guard had unlocked Vidin's door and pulled out a crude looking club. Vidin was yanked from the window and thrown to the floor; Vidin felt each malicious thrash from the club burn welts into more then just his skin. "THAT'S TO TEACH YOU TO GIVE RESPECT TO WHOS INCHARGE!" the guard had just got up and left Vidin curled and shaking in a little ball, when another individual came running up. "that's ENOUGH!" no one gave you permission to beat this prisoner. The guard looked up and said in an innocent voice "but sir he was spiting at me and insulting me!" Vidin laid still shaking, all he could think about was how his miserable life would end soon. "May that be the case or not you have no authority. Get out!" The guard left the room and quickly hurried away. This new individual helped Vidin up and put shanks over his wrists. "The princess wishes to see you, against my better reasoning mind you. Don't get any funny ideas, there will be armed guards present." Vidin was led to the princess's room where a small table was erected for them both. When Vidin entered the room, for the first time in his life he experienced something damn right peculiar, someone he had never met was smiling at him. When Vidin was seated armed guards took each side of him and kept him in close watch. The princess waited for a minute and then looked up at the guards and spoke in a gentle and calming voice "leave us" the individual who Vidin met in the prison turned out to be a high ranking general who was also present, and spoke "but miss its not a very good-""LEAVE!" interrupted the princess with a fierce dominance. The guards and general left and waited outside the princess's room. The princess smiled after they left. Vidin had his gaze to his hands, which where shaking very lightly, though Vidin hated the fact they where doing this. All he did was stare at his hands he had rested in his lap. "Hi" said the princess in a cheery voice. "I'm princess Liloh, you can call me Liloh if you like." She waited patiently and Vidin could feel her trying to keep a conversation going. Vidin stayed silent long enough for her to speak again. "Thanks a lot. I saw what you did for me." She still waited and Vidin said nothing. "What where you doing in the castle anyway?" Still there was no response. Liloh sighed and asked in a pleading way "Can I at least know your name?" Vidin spoke silently and more sadly then he would have wanted. "...Vidin...." The princess smiled and leaned forward on the table "that's a nice name" she said smiling. Vidin looked up and almost cried. Although he didn't know why. Maybe it was because he was a prisoner. Or maybe because this was the first time he felt no judgment on him. Or maybe because he felt that he was out of place sitting across the table form a princess. "So Vidin, what do you enjoy? Besides robbing castle treasuries?" Liloh laughed and winked. Vidin couldn't understand why she was being so nice, why on earth would someone like her, who seems so proper and may be possibly the most beautiful girl Vidin has ever seen, even consider talking to him? "...Why are you talking to me?" asked Vidin in the same silent voice. The princess looked serious. "Can't I talk with you?" Vidin looked to the left. "You know what I mean, I'm an Archear..." the princess looked confused. And then she laughed "so? What's that got to do with anything?" Vidin felt a tear slid down his cheek. Liloh looked very taken back, in a bit of an awkward way she asked. "Oh dear, you haven't met very many nice people have you?" Vidin looked directly into her eyes and he almost blurted out what nice eyes she has, but he caught himself. "No, I guess I haven't, met many nice people..." with that sentence the unthinkable happens. Liloh actually got up and gave Vidin a hug she touched Vidin. She not only talked to him, smiled at him, listened to him and took an honest interest in him, but she also got up and gave him a sympathetic hug. "You're a good person, people just judge you before they know you don't they?" with that Vidin realized just how him and this princess are the same. Vidin wanted to talk to her about so much; he wanted to ask her so much. But when she sat back down the door chime rang and Vidin watched as Liloh's smile disappeared. The voice of overprotective general rang out, purposely cutting their conversation short. "Princess, your lessons are about to begin." Liloh asked quickly "Vidin, tomorrow want to have another meeting? In the garden?" Vidin caught himself smiling without realizing it. "Ya that would be all right..." as he finished his sentence he was dragged out of the room and Vidin watched as Liloh's eyes traveled to where the guards where roughly handling Vidin, and he saw her face look at him with concern. Down in the cell the same guard from that morning walked by Vidin's cell "your lucky you didn't say anything this morning, so ill be nice and leave you without a beating tonight." Besides his being utterly happy to be a prisoner Vidin was Un-chained tonight in his cell. Vidin spent most of the night looking out of his barred window. Vidin stood and smiled thinking of this girl princess, even if he was to be beaten every night as long as he got to see Liloh again Vidin thought it would all be worth it. While staring out the window Vidin's thoughts where interrupted, He noticed something odd about the window frame. He reached out and felt that the window wasn't set directly into the stone; he gave a weak little tug and felt the bars and window slide out of place! Vidin was starting to plan his escape when the princess entered into his mind, and he found himself yet again letting go of the right window... The next day in the garden went smoothly and Vidin and Liloh found a nice tree to sit under while they talked about past experiences and other little chitchat. Vidin told Liloh about Korks, scout, and Jessie. "They sound like such interesting people!" Said Liloh, laughing at the story she heard. This time viding and Liloh had much longer to talk, yet still that day Vidin had shanks on and before the date begun he watched as one of the guards put a pistol in Liloh's back pocket and whispered a little to loudly "just in case." The day slowly died away and Liloh was showing Vidin around the garden and Vidin (not too sure what he was thinking) picked up a lily and when Liloh was turned around he dropped it over her head in front of her, where she caught it, Liloh blushed and pressed it near her nose to smell its scent. They continued on their walk talking and laughing until finally it was getting late.
When it was time for Liloh to go, she said again "tomorrow?" and Vidin agreed. For weeks Vidin met with the princess and the two became very close, sharing all sorts of stories until one day Vidin asked Liloh why she was crying that day when Vidin and Liloh first saw each other. Liloh's mood changed instantly and she refused to talk about it. She got so upset that she cut their date off early and sent Vidin back to his cell. The next morning however Vidin was once again led to the princesses room where she was silently crying on her balcony. She gave Vidin a hug and told him that she was sorry. After that day Vidin was moved to a bedroom in the castle. And his shanks where removed. However he still had guards outside of his room that would annoyingly follow him to the bathroom, one night Vidin made a game out of it, he purposely went to the bathroom 17 times in 1 hour laughing for the few seconds he was alone in his room, and then proceeding back to the bathroom until the guards got fed up and locked him in his room. While Vidin was staying at the castle this entire time he never saw the queen. Though he herd that she had left on official business and would be coming home at some point. Still he was reminded all the time that she dose indeed exist. One night though, some three months after his capture Vidin was sleeping in his glorious bed. When he heard a crack of thunder outside, and the blazing light of the storm. Vidin walked over to his window and watched the storm and listened to the melancholy song that the raindrops where playing on his window before he herd a tiny knock at his door. He opened it a little concerned why at this hour anyone wanted to talk to him. Vidin cracked the door slightly and the princess was there, Vidin opened the door wider and asked, "What's wrong?" Liloh in the tiniest squeak started to say that she was walking down the hall and then- ~Crack! ~ Another bolt of lighting streaked. Liloh shot into Vidin with a little yelp and held onto him shaking. Vidin closed his door with a slight smile and asked, "Where are the guards?" Liloh was quivering for a minute or two before she said in a quite voice "I relived them of duty..." Vidin smiled and lay Liloh in his bed, he was about o go fetch a chair for himself but Liloh wouldn't let him go. She cowered with him until soon her cowering turned to cuddling, she griped Vidin, and Vidin started to pet her hair. She moved up him more and kissed Vidin on the neck. Vidin was shocked. At least he though he was shocked. Vidin lay there in the moonless room, random streaking bolts lighting his room, Vidin felt pure serenity in his heart and soul, and he listened to her deepening breaths and felt her pounding heart. She inched up Vidin and she kissed him on the lips, at first Vidin did nothing (having never kissed a girl before) but then he started to let it flow, and Vidin started to kiss Liloh back, when the kiss ended she hugged him and pulled him close and said in his ear, "...I love you" and Vidin feeling the words flow from his very soul Repeated the words with a passion that no man can repeat.
The next morning Vidin awoke by being thrown out of bed and he heard hysterical sobbing from somewhere in the room. Before he could rise to look around the back end of a gun was slammed into his temple. The hit didn't knock Vidin out but it sure as hell kept him from getting up. "NO MOTHER PLEASE DON'T!" Vidin heard Liloh yell. "QUIET! Not only are you in bed doing god knows what to that filthy Archear but you are disobeying my orders! I wanted this boy DEAD!" said a woman with pure evil and hate in her soul. The General stepped forward "mam, the boy has not give us any problems and he's given us a lot of intelligence, willingly might I add, on our castles defenses." Vidin felt a new respect for the unprejudiced general. The queen in her evil voice resembling that of a human bullfrog said. "General Lebalt I could care less, what I said is what goes, and I said KILL this boy. If you refuse it is treason! Now do it!" Liloh screamed "NO!" Vidin was pulled off the floor and he felt the chains hit his wrists. Vidin looked at Liloh who was sobbing hysterically. He looked to the guards that had become his friends. He looked at a very plump, fat, pig faced, and pale queen. The general looked at Vidin with remorse and then gave the order for Vidin to be returned to his previous cell where he will await his execution. Vidin sat in his cell. He would have ran but his hands where chained to the wall again. If he had taken his chance long before this he would be able to escape. Vidin spent the night pulling fruitlessly on the chains. Vidin pulled for hours, and hours, his wrists where bleeding badly, and after 8 hours of pulling he was sitting on the floor giving little tugs, then he herd a odd noise, as if someone was falling down. Vidin figured it was one of the guards drunk. But instead of a guard, a girl Liloh was wearing a white traveling robe. She pulled out keys and unlocked the gate to Vidin's cell. She ran forward and before Vidin could speak she shushed him. When his wrists where free Vidin looked down at the damage on them, his wrists where cut and Liloh held them gently. Liloh looked up threw tears and said, ill follow you wherever you go. Vidin smiled and before the two could get away, the same guard that made Vidin's life hell while he was in the jail slid the door closed and smiled. He was all beaten and Vidin figured that it was Liloh's handiwork. "Ha... HAHAHA! You too really are something special aren't you? Where are you going now huh? HA you're both screwed..." the guard pulled out his pistol and pointed it at Liloh who was holding the cell keys in her hand. Liloh was horrified, but Vidin smiled and walked over to the window, he pulled out the bars and the window. The guard looked up and with a quivering bottom jaw he was frozen on the spot. Vidin slide the window out easelessly and smiled at the guard who was frozen in limbo, the guard threw a quivering lip started to yell for help still pointing the gun at the couple, until the guard let his eyes wander up the passage. Taking advantage of this moment of weakness Vidin with a burst of speed ran and with an uppercut, smashed the window and bars heavily onto the guard's head, knocking him out cold. However it wasn't fast enough and soon the air was filled with the hurried yells of other guards and security. Vidin ran quickly over to Liloh. "We will never make it!" gasped Liloh, Vidin looked at her and said "I was caught once in this castle and ill do whatever it takes to get me and you out of harms way" he picked up Liloh and helped her up to the small window. Liloh crawled threw and Vidin followed her. They where in the garden and Vidin took Liloh's hand and ran her over to the bridge where he dropped the lily on her. Vidin jumped into the water and helped down Liloh. "There's a drainage pipe right?" said Vidin hurriedly as he buckled down. "There should be one other their" said Liloh quickly and stuttering. They both wadded threw the pond until Vidin found a rusted old grate that was used for water drainage. Vidin stopped and threw all his force against the grate then started kicking at it. It cracked and then with his last kick flew inwards. The two ran down the pipe into the market area. The two ran full throttle threw the market, streaking past people and hearing guards screaming "STOP THEM" very close behind them. They ran full out towards the airship docks. Vidin picked up a machete from a fish stand and ran towards one fast looking airship. Before the two could run onto it an odd looking fellow who looked very confused even in normal mid-day activities came down with flyers goggles on and a strange outdated mustache. Vidin held the machete to the old mans face and he said "let us on NOW!" The old man looked even more confused the Liloh said let us on and we will triple what you are usually paid. The man looked willing then someone was calling out "ESCAPED FUGITIVES! DON'T LET THEM GET AWAY!" the captain said in an oddly distant voice "are you two in trouble? WELL YEEEHAW! Outrunning these Varmints heads will be a challenged ALL ABOARD!" At first Vidin and Liloh looked at each other confused, then they rushed onboard. The small airship was extremely fast and agile, it was incredibly stable, although its captain wasn't. Vidin and Liloh's journey to a safe place will be a long one....
Just rewards
Vidin awoke in a dark damp cell. Chained to the wall, the first thing that alerted his senses was the smell of pain, torture, and death. He begun to move a bit and realized he was chained to the wall. He got to his feet and walked about as far as his chain would let him. At first he was surprised to see that he was in a cell, then remembered what had happened. It didn't take Vidin long before someone came down to his cell. "Awake are we?" Said an ignorant looking guard with a look a little boy usually gets, as he's torturing insects. "Your only alive because the princess had mercy on you" said the guard "the queen however wants to see you gutted and burned while your still breathing" at this the guard smiled. Vidin didn't say anything just looked towards his cell window. The guards smile disappeared into a snarl "Well SAY something you filthy Archear!" Vidin still continued to look away. "DON'T YOU DARE IGNORE ME YOU SCUM!" the guard had unlocked Vidin's door and pulled out a crude looking club. Vidin was yanked from the window and thrown to the floor; Vidin felt each malicious thrash from the club burn welts into more then just his skin. "THAT'S TO TEACH YOU TO GIVE RESPECT TO WHOS INCHARGE!" the guard had just got up and left Vidin curled and shaking in a little ball, when another individual came running up. "that's ENOUGH!" no one gave you permission to beat this prisoner. The guard looked up and said in an innocent voice "but sir he was spiting at me and insulting me!" Vidin laid still shaking, all he could think about was how his miserable life would end soon. "May that be the case or not you have no authority. Get out!" The guard left the room and quickly hurried away. This new individual helped Vidin up and put shanks over his wrists. "The princess wishes to see you, against my better reasoning mind you. Don't get any funny ideas, there will be armed guards present." Vidin was led to the princess's room where a small table was erected for them both. When Vidin entered the room, for the first time in his life he experienced something damn right peculiar, someone he had never met was smiling at him. When Vidin was seated armed guards took each side of him and kept him in close watch. The princess waited for a minute and then looked up at the guards and spoke in a gentle and calming voice "leave us" the individual who Vidin met in the prison turned out to be a high ranking general who was also present, and spoke "but miss its not a very good-""LEAVE!" interrupted the princess with a fierce dominance. The guards and general left and waited outside the princess's room. The princess smiled after they left. Vidin had his gaze to his hands, which where shaking very lightly, though Vidin hated the fact they where doing this. All he did was stare at his hands he had rested in his lap. "Hi" said the princess in a cheery voice. "I'm princess Liloh, you can call me Liloh if you like." She waited patiently and Vidin could feel her trying to keep a conversation going. Vidin stayed silent long enough for her to speak again. "Thanks a lot. I saw what you did for me." She still waited and Vidin said nothing. "What where you doing in the castle anyway?" Still there was no response. Liloh sighed and asked in a pleading way "Can I at least know your name?" Vidin spoke silently and more sadly then he would have wanted. "...Vidin...." The princess smiled and leaned forward on the table "that's a nice name" she said smiling. Vidin looked up and almost cried. Although he didn't know why. Maybe it was because he was a prisoner. Or maybe because this was the first time he felt no judgment on him. Or maybe because he felt that he was out of place sitting across the table form a princess. "So Vidin, what do you enjoy? Besides robbing castle treasuries?" Liloh laughed and winked. Vidin couldn't understand why she was being so nice, why on earth would someone like her, who seems so proper and may be possibly the most beautiful girl Vidin has ever seen, even consider talking to him? "...Why are you talking to me?" asked Vidin in the same silent voice. The princess looked serious. "Can't I talk with you?" Vidin looked to the left. "You know what I mean, I'm an Archear..." the princess looked confused. And then she laughed "so? What's that got to do with anything?" Vidin felt a tear slid down his cheek. Liloh looked very taken back, in a bit of an awkward way she asked. "Oh dear, you haven't met very many nice people have you?" Vidin looked directly into her eyes and he almost blurted out what nice eyes she has, but he caught himself. "No, I guess I haven't, met many nice people..." with that sentence the unthinkable happens. Liloh actually got up and gave Vidin a hug she touched Vidin. She not only talked to him, smiled at him, listened to him and took an honest interest in him, but she also got up and gave him a sympathetic hug. "You're a good person, people just judge you before they know you don't they?" with that Vidin realized just how him and this princess are the same. Vidin wanted to talk to her about so much; he wanted to ask her so much. But when she sat back down the door chime rang and Vidin watched as Liloh's smile disappeared. The voice of overprotective general rang out, purposely cutting their conversation short. "Princess, your lessons are about to begin." Liloh asked quickly "Vidin, tomorrow want to have another meeting? In the garden?" Vidin caught himself smiling without realizing it. "Ya that would be all right..." as he finished his sentence he was dragged out of the room and Vidin watched as Liloh's eyes traveled to where the guards where roughly handling Vidin, and he saw her face look at him with concern. Down in the cell the same guard from that morning walked by Vidin's cell "your lucky you didn't say anything this morning, so ill be nice and leave you without a beating tonight." Besides his being utterly happy to be a prisoner Vidin was Un-chained tonight in his cell. Vidin spent most of the night looking out of his barred window. Vidin stood and smiled thinking of this girl princess, even if he was to be beaten every night as long as he got to see Liloh again Vidin thought it would all be worth it. While staring out the window Vidin's thoughts where interrupted, He noticed something odd about the window frame. He reached out and felt that the window wasn't set directly into the stone; he gave a weak little tug and felt the bars and window slide out of place! Vidin was starting to plan his escape when the princess entered into his mind, and he found himself yet again letting go of the right window... The next day in the garden went smoothly and Vidin and Liloh found a nice tree to sit under while they talked about past experiences and other little chitchat. Vidin told Liloh about Korks, scout, and Jessie. "They sound like such interesting people!" Said Liloh, laughing at the story she heard. This time viding and Liloh had much longer to talk, yet still that day Vidin had shanks on and before the date begun he watched as one of the guards put a pistol in Liloh's back pocket and whispered a little to loudly "just in case." The day slowly died away and Liloh was showing Vidin around the garden and Vidin (not too sure what he was thinking) picked up a lily and when Liloh was turned around he dropped it over her head in front of her, where she caught it, Liloh blushed and pressed it near her nose to smell its scent. They continued on their walk talking and laughing until finally it was getting late.
When it was time for Liloh to go, she said again "tomorrow?" and Vidin agreed. For weeks Vidin met with the princess and the two became very close, sharing all sorts of stories until one day Vidin asked Liloh why she was crying that day when Vidin and Liloh first saw each other. Liloh's mood changed instantly and she refused to talk about it. She got so upset that she cut their date off early and sent Vidin back to his cell. The next morning however Vidin was once again led to the princesses room where she was silently crying on her balcony. She gave Vidin a hug and told him that she was sorry. After that day Vidin was moved to a bedroom in the castle. And his shanks where removed. However he still had guards outside of his room that would annoyingly follow him to the bathroom, one night Vidin made a game out of it, he purposely went to the bathroom 17 times in 1 hour laughing for the few seconds he was alone in his room, and then proceeding back to the bathroom until the guards got fed up and locked him in his room. While Vidin was staying at the castle this entire time he never saw the queen. Though he herd that she had left on official business and would be coming home at some point. Still he was reminded all the time that she dose indeed exist. One night though, some three months after his capture Vidin was sleeping in his glorious bed. When he heard a crack of thunder outside, and the blazing light of the storm. Vidin walked over to his window and watched the storm and listened to the melancholy song that the raindrops where playing on his window before he herd a tiny knock at his door. He opened it a little concerned why at this hour anyone wanted to talk to him. Vidin cracked the door slightly and the princess was there, Vidin opened the door wider and asked, "What's wrong?" Liloh in the tiniest squeak started to say that she was walking down the hall and then- ~Crack! ~ Another bolt of lighting streaked. Liloh shot into Vidin with a little yelp and held onto him shaking. Vidin closed his door with a slight smile and asked, "Where are the guards?" Liloh was quivering for a minute or two before she said in a quite voice "I relived them of duty..." Vidin smiled and lay Liloh in his bed, he was about o go fetch a chair for himself but Liloh wouldn't let him go. She cowered with him until soon her cowering turned to cuddling, she griped Vidin, and Vidin started to pet her hair. She moved up him more and kissed Vidin on the neck. Vidin was shocked. At least he though he was shocked. Vidin lay there in the moonless room, random streaking bolts lighting his room, Vidin felt pure serenity in his heart and soul, and he listened to her deepening breaths and felt her pounding heart. She inched up Vidin and she kissed him on the lips, at first Vidin did nothing (having never kissed a girl before) but then he started to let it flow, and Vidin started to kiss Liloh back, when the kiss ended she hugged him and pulled him close and said in his ear, "...I love you" and Vidin feeling the words flow from his very soul Repeated the words with a passion that no man can repeat.
The next morning Vidin awoke by being thrown out of bed and he heard hysterical sobbing from somewhere in the room. Before he could rise to look around the back end of a gun was slammed into his temple. The hit didn't knock Vidin out but it sure as hell kept him from getting up. "NO MOTHER PLEASE DON'T!" Vidin heard Liloh yell. "QUIET! Not only are you in bed doing god knows what to that filthy Archear but you are disobeying my orders! I wanted this boy DEAD!" said a woman with pure evil and hate in her soul. The General stepped forward "mam, the boy has not give us any problems and he's given us a lot of intelligence, willingly might I add, on our castles defenses." Vidin felt a new respect for the unprejudiced general. The queen in her evil voice resembling that of a human bullfrog said. "General Lebalt I could care less, what I said is what goes, and I said KILL this boy. If you refuse it is treason! Now do it!" Liloh screamed "NO!" Vidin was pulled off the floor and he felt the chains hit his wrists. Vidin looked at Liloh who was sobbing hysterically. He looked to the guards that had become his friends. He looked at a very plump, fat, pig faced, and pale queen. The general looked at Vidin with remorse and then gave the order for Vidin to be returned to his previous cell where he will await his execution. Vidin sat in his cell. He would have ran but his hands where chained to the wall again. If he had taken his chance long before this he would be able to escape. Vidin spent the night pulling fruitlessly on the chains. Vidin pulled for hours, and hours, his wrists where bleeding badly, and after 8 hours of pulling he was sitting on the floor giving little tugs, then he herd a odd noise, as if someone was falling down. Vidin figured it was one of the guards drunk. But instead of a guard, a girl Liloh was wearing a white traveling robe. She pulled out keys and unlocked the gate to Vidin's cell. She ran forward and before Vidin could speak she shushed him. When his wrists where free Vidin looked down at the damage on them, his wrists where cut and Liloh held them gently. Liloh looked up threw tears and said, ill follow you wherever you go. Vidin smiled and before the two could get away, the same guard that made Vidin's life hell while he was in the jail slid the door closed and smiled. He was all beaten and Vidin figured that it was Liloh's handiwork. "Ha... HAHAHA! You too really are something special aren't you? Where are you going now huh? HA you're both screwed..." the guard pulled out his pistol and pointed it at Liloh who was holding the cell keys in her hand. Liloh was horrified, but Vidin smiled and walked over to the window, he pulled out the bars and the window. The guard looked up and with a quivering bottom jaw he was frozen on the spot. Vidin slide the window out easelessly and smiled at the guard who was frozen in limbo, the guard threw a quivering lip started to yell for help still pointing the gun at the couple, until the guard let his eyes wander up the passage. Taking advantage of this moment of weakness Vidin with a burst of speed ran and with an uppercut, smashed the window and bars heavily onto the guard's head, knocking him out cold. However it wasn't fast enough and soon the air was filled with the hurried yells of other guards and security. Vidin ran quickly over to Liloh. "We will never make it!" gasped Liloh, Vidin looked at her and said "I was caught once in this castle and ill do whatever it takes to get me and you out of harms way" he picked up Liloh and helped her up to the small window. Liloh crawled threw and Vidin followed her. They where in the garden and Vidin took Liloh's hand and ran her over to the bridge where he dropped the lily on her. Vidin jumped into the water and helped down Liloh. "There's a drainage pipe right?" said Vidin hurriedly as he buckled down. "There should be one other their" said Liloh quickly and stuttering. They both wadded threw the pond until Vidin found a rusted old grate that was used for water drainage. Vidin stopped and threw all his force against the grate then started kicking at it. It cracked and then with his last kick flew inwards. The two ran down the pipe into the market area. The two ran full throttle threw the market, streaking past people and hearing guards screaming "STOP THEM" very close behind them. They ran full out towards the airship docks. Vidin picked up a machete from a fish stand and ran towards one fast looking airship. Before the two could run onto it an odd looking fellow who looked very confused even in normal mid-day activities came down with flyers goggles on and a strange outdated mustache. Vidin held the machete to the old mans face and he said "let us on NOW!" The old man looked even more confused the Liloh said let us on and we will triple what you are usually paid. The man looked willing then someone was calling out "ESCAPED FUGITIVES! DON'T LET THEM GET AWAY!" the captain said in an oddly distant voice "are you two in trouble? WELL YEEEHAW! Outrunning these Varmints heads will be a challenged ALL ABOARD!" At first Vidin and Liloh looked at each other confused, then they rushed onboard. The small airship was extremely fast and agile, it was incredibly stable, although its captain wasn't. Vidin and Liloh's journey to a safe place will be a long one....