Myrrh wandered aimlessly, she already felt terrible for having such an outburst. She landed outside Grado keep and tried to find someone who could help her out. She was stumbling around in the dark, she couldn't see well in the night and eventually she decided to get some rest. She found what seemed to be a tree and lay down to sleep.
"Hey what is that?"
"I think it's alive.
"Me too."
"Hey look at the wings she has."
"She's a dragon."
"We shouldn't have did this man.".
"Well we can't well throw her back."
Myrrh looked up and saw two armed men over her. One was a very dark skinned man with matching hair. The other was lightly tanned with graying hair. Both had a sword on and tattered cloaks.
"Who…"
"Are we?"
"We're bandits we steal stuff from passersby."
"Am…I"
"In trouble? No but we would like to know what a Manakete is doing in the middle of nowhere."
"…"
"Obviously a non talker."
"Maybe we should take her with us."
"And risk her parents finding us? You know how angry dragon parents can get!"
"No I don't I have never met any."
"That's not the point."
"Well what is?"
Myrrh had been listening and decided to take advantage of their indecisiveness.
"No…"
"Excuse me?"
"You have it all wrong…"
"What?"
"If you leave me here…my father will find out…"
"And?"
"He'll probably…kill you for leaving me unprotected."
"Are
you serious?"
"Man we shouldn't have did this."
"Well what are we supposed to do?"
"Uhhh…"
"I think maybe if we broght her back to her father…"
"No…father would never…"
"Well then, where would your father want us to take you?"
Myrrh thought for a second, these people seemed easy to take advantage of so why not do so?
"Rausten…"
"Excuse me?"
"Rausten…my father would…like you to take me to Rausten."
"Hey we probably should do what she says. I mean if her father did find out."
"Good point I don't wanna die."
"Me neither."
"Okay we'll do what you want just don't kill us!"
"…"
"Rausten will be pretty hard to get into."
"Yeah I hope its worth it."
"Me too, little girl is it worth it?
"…I think so…"
"Good."
"We'll need to find a way past all the guards."
"Especially if the rumors are true."
"…Rumors?"
"Yeah Mansel is locking the country down, apparently he thinks they're going to be coming under attack."
"…"
"You seem distraught."
"A…friend of mine is in Rausten I hope she is…"
"Oh she'll be fine I bet its just saber shaking from Carcino."
"Yeah they wouldn't dare attack another country."
"They're too cowardly."
"…could we please get going? My father is probba…."
"She said her father!"
"Yes we will get going right away madam."
" Please don't hurt us! We'll do what you want!"
"…"
They grabbed her and ran along the roads until they reached their camp.
"Can you walk yourself?"
"…"
"Sorry about the suddenness of that run but we should get going before Rausten's borders close up too much."
"…Okay."
They began getting their supplies and equipment together. When they were ready they all set off for Rausten. Myrrh followed timidly behind them. As they walked she noticed the two men constantly looked back at her with something she figured was fear. If that was the case, then maybe that could be taken advantage of. Later that night if you were to look out over the plains of Grado you might have seen what appeared to be two figures walking across them, one of the characters would have appeared to be carrying something on his back. That something would have been Myrrh, she had begun complaining about how tired she was a few hours ago. Not wanting to entice the wrath of a dragon the oldest their, Morgan suggested his partner, Lance lend Myrrh a hand.
"Ohhh how did this happen?"
"She got tired and mentioned how her father hated her getting tired."
"Oh so now we are a little dragon girls servants?"
"A little."
"Great just great."
"Shh don't wake her up!"
"Whatever. I hope we get into Rausten soon."
"Its another four days and if the borders are close, it may take weeks to infiltrate the country."
"I doubt it Mansel hasn't ever been to great at security."
"Good point Lance."
"I think maybe we'll be in there in six days."
"I hope your right otherwise."
"He father gets pissed and comes looking for her."
"And finds us with her."
"Then we have two angry dragons to deal with."
"I don't want that."
"Neither do i."
"Then we have to get her into Rausten and to…did she ever say where she wanted to go?"
"No I figured she just wanted inside the country."
"Well we'll find out tomorrow."
"I certainly hope so."
"We should find somewhere to sleep."
"I say we keep walking."
"Why?"
"Because then we'll get there sooner. And I don't think either of us are really tired."
"Hey I am."
"But you'll suck it up because her father wants to see her as soon as possible and we don't want to piss him off."
Myrrh suppressed a giggle, these two guys had no idea her father was dead and she could still use this against them to get them to do what she wanted. She then had an epiphany; this behavior seemed like something L'Arachel might do. "She's rubbing off on me." Thought Myrrh, she tried to think back to when she might have had…the chance to…and then it came back to her, the evening before the party that was the one time that she might have done it. Myrrh began tearing up at the thought of that night, she and L'Arachel had…
"Morgan…"
"Yeah lance."
"I think the Dragon's not very happy."
"Why?"
"She's starting to cry."
"That cant be good."
"Should we stop."
"I guess but it wont do much good. I don't think we could help at all."
"We cant just go on like this."
"Good point set her down."
Lance put her down next to a tree.
"Hey what's up?"
"…"
"Come on it's a kidnappers job to lend a sympathetic ear to his captives woes."
"… Is it?"
"No but I will just cause I'm nice."
"…Okay, I guess the first thing is I…I…"
"Yes?"
"I love…another…woman…"
"Okay…why is that a bad thing?"
"That isn't the problem…but…a…few nights ago…"
"Uh…huh?"
"we…we…"
"Got passionate?"
"Well…it was more like, she did."
"She…"
"…"
"She started…touching my shoulders and then…"
"She went downhill from there?"
"Basically…"
"I'm sorry."
"Don't be I didn't mind but…it was so…spontaneous…"
"Oh so now you don't know what to do?"
"…"
"So…are you going back to her?"
"Yeah…"
"Okay."
"I…am truly grateful…"
"Lets get some rest."
They set up camping gear and tents. Morgan got a small fire going and Lance stayed talking to Myrrh.
"So where are you going to sleep?"
"I…dunno."
"If you want we have space in our tent."
"…"
"I don't mean anything by it."
"I would hope not…"
"Well…it would be pretty stupid of me to try with what you just told me."
"…"
They all got into the tent; Morgan complaining about the lack of space and they all went to sleep eventually. Myrrh was haunted by dreams of pain and suffering, she got up in the middle of the night and went outside. She looked out at the moon. She loved the moon, she loved watching it set and rise in the sky. She watched it and soon felt a little more at ease. Maybe it was because she had finally told someone or maybe it was because on the roof of Rausten castle L'Arachel was out watching the same moonrise.
