Nakia had only gotten a few leages away from home when she had to rest. The sun would be setting soon, and she hadn't aten sense she left. So she built a fire and cooked some meat she had brought and ate some of the bread. After she was full, she put out the fire and layed her blankets out so she could rest. As she layed down and starred up at the stars, she began to worry.

What was she thinking? Just leaving, no place to go, no money, and no sword or bow and arror. How would she hunt? And she couldn't buy food. Sooner or later she would run out of provisions. But of corse, what were her other options? Stay in Yazuac? Wake up to all the dead bodies everyday? She burried her face in her hands. What would she do? She stayed up all night trying to think of her options, but nothing came to her. She eventually fell into a fitfull sleep.

She woke up the next morning sore and depressed. Before she left that morning, she decided to choose where to go. After considering her options her finally settled on headed towards Uru'Baen, and when she got there, she would complain to the King. He was sure to do something about the Urgals, and bring justice to the death of her loved ones. So she took her map of Alagaesia and started planning a path. After severel minutes of studying the map she decided that she should first head to Daret and see if she could salvage any provisions and, although it was against her morals, steal a horse, if possible. There was no way she could walk all the way to Uru"Baen. After she left Daret, she could head along the Ramr River until she reached Uru'Baen. Satisfied, she rolled up the map, stuffed it in her pack, and began walking south, toward Daret.

Nakia soon found walking very boring. By the time she stopped to sleep her legs were exhausted and she was starving. So she cooked up more meat, shoveled it down and headed off to bed.

That night Nakia had strange dreams of being strangled by Urgals, and then suddenly one of the Urgals tried to stab her with a knife when an arrow appeared out of no where, killing the Urgal. Nakia immediatly stood up, soaked in sweat from her nightmere. When she woke up, though, she found about three Urgals fleeing her camp, and a mysterious figure running after them, and in the shadows, Nakia could see him stab them with a long sword. Not knowing if she was still dreaming, Nakia closed her eyes and reopend them, but the visions stayed. Nakia watched the scene from a distance, able to see what was going on because of the flat plains. Within a couple minutes, the figure had slaughtered all of the Urgals. Once he pulled his sword out from the final Urgal he started heading back to where Nakia was still sitting.

Oh my gosh! He..she...it's coming back! She thought, panicked. She cowered in her blankets, not knowing what to do. The thing came closer and closer until he was close enough that Nakia could see details. He was a boy who looked a few years older then Nakia. 16 mayabe 17. He had long, shaggy, jet black hair and electric blue eyes, and was very hansome. He was quite tall and muscular and had a long thin sword shealthed at his hips. He walked closer and then knelt down next to Nakia.

"Are you ok?" he asked her. She nodded her head. As far as she could tell she hadn't been harmed, but now that she thought about it, her neck was a little sore. Had she really been choked by the Urgals like in her dream?

"Who are you?" she asked.

"Aden," he replied.

"Oh," she said. "My name's Nakia, but what are you doing here? Not that I'm not grateful for you helping me..."

"I was sleeping not too far from here, I too am traveling, and I heard somebody screaming, so I came over here and saw the Urgals. They were surronding you and you were still asleep, so I attacked them." Nakia blushed red. She hadn't known she was screaming, and even worse, that she was screaming so loud.

"Thank you," she whispered.

"Not a problem." The two of them sat there akwardly for a second and then he spoke again. "Do you even have a sword? Or a bow?"

"No," she said, feeling a little stupid.

"And no horse?"

"No." He shook his head in disbelief.

"Out of curiosity, where are walking to unarmed?"

"I was heading for Uru'Baen. I couldn't stay in my hometown, Yazuac. The Urgals attacked it...they killed everybody but me, because I had hidden..." After telling the story Nakia bursted into tears. Feeling akward Aden just sat there for a second, but then patted her on the back comfortingly. After a few minutes she stopped and wiped away her tears, feeling like a fool. "I'm sorry..."

"It's ok. That has to be terrible...So you're just going to walk alone to Uru'Baen?" She nodded her head yes. "If you want, I could come with you. I was heading in that direction anyways. I could at least assist you there. You'd be a lot safer." Nakia was shocked. She had just met Aden and he was offering to take her to Uru'Baen? But what other choice did she have? She obviously couldn't defend herself, and she would be a lot less lonley if she had someon traveling with her. After considering it, she decided to go with him.

"Ok."

"Great...oh, and I promise you, I'm not some kind of murder or whatever. I am trustworthy," he assured her. The thought had never even occured to her. She just hoped that she could take his word for it, exspecially after he saved her from the Urgals.

"Alright, but I've got to stop in Daret before we head for Uru'Baen, is that ok?" she asked.

"That's fine," he said with a smile. "Well I'm going to get my stuff at my camp. I'll be back in a few minutes." As he left for his things, Nakia fell back asleep. When Aden came back he admired her beauty as she slept. Her long, dirty blonde hair curled around her shoulders and her skin was flawless except for the trail of freckles dotted across her nose, which made her look even cuter. But then Aden shook the thoughts out of his mind. He could not get involved with her. He was just to get her safely to Uru'Baen, and then he had to go. He still needed to search the prisons for Arya, the elf who had dissapeared on the crossing to the Beor Mountains.

When the Queen of Ellesmera found out about this, they had sent Aden out to search for her. He was one of Ellesmera's strongest and most skilled soilders there. He sighed and unrolled his blankets and layed down looking up at the sky and all of the beautiful stars twinkling above. He pulled his long hair behind his ears to reveal a pair of long, pointed, elven ears.

Gasps! haha, another short chapter, I know, but oh well, I'll make sure to make it longer next time. Well, I'm going on vacation for awhile, so I won't be able to update for about a week. I better have some comments when i get back! haha, just kidding, But please do comment!