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Her palomino mare's flanks pounded as, by the cover of nightfall, she escaped. The stars twinkling and the moon bright, she had brought only two dresses, a few coins and her prized possession and only thing of real value she owned, her tiara. The golden, pinkish light was slowly creeping up over the rolling hills which surrounded her, and for the first moment in a long time she smiled, feeling almost content.

Coming from the woods she emerged onto the dirt path the headed towards the capitol. The previous king had installed a set of roads so every person within the kingdom could find his or her way towards the city, which turned out to be very wise, especially when they had been invaded three years ago from the Germalestlians, the empire's most wealthy neighbour and rival. Plus it made it easier for news to travel quickly throughout the realm.

As she kicked the horse into a light trot heading slowly along the dirt road, she heard a noise behind her glancing behind her she saw a few men, about six of them, emerging from the dense, green woodland.

'Excuse me missy? Could you help us with somethin'?' a tallish red head, obviously the leader, yelled, his cruel voice tinted with repulsive, sarcastic humour, and nudged his horse into a slow canter, it's brownish coat obviously had been mistreated. A bad horse for a bad man, she thought.

In response she simply rode on not looking back, she heard their wicked laughing following her and the sounds of horses galloping after her. 'Please missy we mean no harm…. Just a bit'a fun….. And maybe your money.' Bandits! Her mind spun, as looking down, she urged her horse into a gallop. Not realising she had headed straight off the track into very small enclosed clearing, she abruptly turned her horse around and saw the bandits had followed her and were now circling her like vultures around their prey, cat calling and taunting her.

Panicking, she pushed her horse into the solid, opaque shrubbery that surrounded her. Pushing forward she was now completely surrounded by the dense, shadowy bushland, she rode on thorns and stray branches pulling at the dainty sleeves of her dress and cutting her skin. Her fear made the forest seem darker and somewhat evil…

With a loud crashing and breaking of branches she escaped, her horses jumping steadily into a gallop, leaving nought but a bare patch where her horse had just been. But the bandits were hot on her trail, not letting obvious wealth slip from their grasp.

Over an hour later when she had finally eluded the clutch of the bandits she slowed her horse to a gentle walk, the sun was almost at its highest point as she approached a glistening lake surrounded by green trees she decided to stop for a while….

A/N. I have no idea where Germalestlians came from… even to myself I was sitting here going WTF! Like it? Hope you do. :) and im sorry if some of the horsey stuff you don't get or I stuffed up coz I used to love horses but now I kinda don't…..

We have ALMOST met Christian! Aww cute….. did you like it? Next chapter is probs gonna also be about Christian AND her family coz we only really know about the villain father… more to come!

Its also gonna be longer….. I kinda bludge on writing longly….. I strongly agree with "its quality not quantity!"

I know in this chapter the plot didn't really go anywhere but im just experimenting with words and don't really expect it to be good. Do people prefere shorter chapters more often or longer chapters a lot less often?

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