p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""This should leave you near the city of Yuuei" the wizard tells her "Look for Shota Aizawa"/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"She blinks a few times before her eyes adjust to her new environment. Instinctively she looks for the portal where she came from but there's nothing behind her; instead there was only greenery as far as she could see. She realized her heart was beating fast and tried calming herself down, taking deep breaths, the leather bind imprisoning her wings felt heavier than usual against her back. Her survival instincts scream at her to run but her rational mind asks Where to? Where could she go? She replays the wizards last words in her mind./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"She runs towards the sound and steps in the path of three horses and their respective riders. The animals are startled by her sudden appearance, it shouldn't surprise her, in al the chaos she'd forgotten what she really looked like. Her body and modest clothes were covered in grime, her hair cut unevenly almost down to her scalp for her captor's amusement, the sickly pale tone her skin had acquired from lack of sunlight and nutrition was only accentuated by the scabs and bruises adorning her arms and legs and to top it all off the leather muzzle that matched her wings harness./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""What is that?" one of the horsemen shouted. He had black hair and didn't look much older than her. She turned to the other two, a blond and a red haired one. They looked to be in their mid-teens as well./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Not sure" the blond one said, a sick grin blooming in his features, Ochako felt her heart squeeze in fear, the feral expression resembled the one her captor would have while entertaining himself with her "But I've never hunted one of those before" red eyes lock on her small frame as the boy starts preparing his bow and arrow. She didn't bother waiting for him to be ready and sprinted on the direction she came from hoping the woods would make it harder for them to give chase./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"She can hear her pursuers having trouble maneuvering around the forest and the sound of running water ahead gives her hope. If she can get to the river she could lose them swimming with the current. With renewed force she spends her strength on getting to the source of water. In her excitement she misses the uneven ground ahead of her and she rolls down the hill until finally stopping in a man-made clearing. Ochako doesn't have time to check if any of her old wounds have opened, she has to keep going. She slowly starts getting up when a hand is placed in front of her "Are you alright young one?" Ochako looks up to the hand's owner and finds a burly blond man with the kindest light blue eyes she's ever seen./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"She takes the hand and the man quickly hoists her up and helps her stabilize herself. Once he's sure she won't fall he takes a step back and places both hands on his hips "And who might you be?" his tone of voice is firm but it doesn't really scare her, quite the contrary actually and his gaze despite analyzing her seems worried not appalled. Behind him there is a cart filled with chopped wood and on the ground there is an axe the man probably dropped to aide her./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Mr. Yagi" she recognizes the red eyed boy's voice./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Your highness" the low tenor of her helper greets back./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"So the boy is a prince, that did not sit well with Ochako, what kind of place had the wizard sent her to?/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Afraid I haven't sir"/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""They're gone now" the man calls, and she crawls out of her hiding place sitting on the edge of the wagon. The former knight crosses his arms over his chest "Now, who are you kid?" Ochako swallows heavily and remembers the wizards' warning to be wary of revealing her identity./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"They travel together into the city; the man introduces himself as Toshinori Yagi, he makes small talk with her talking about himself. He tells her he used to be a knight serving under the queen's direct command but retired a few years ago and runs a small blacksmith shop where he does simple repairs in armor and weapons along with his assistant/apprentice./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Young Midoriya!" the blond man's voice booms under the workshop's roof "This is Ochako, I will be taking her to visit Dr. Aizawa later, could you help her while I stow away the lumber?" the green haired boy nods animatedly and turns to Ochako with a soft smile./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"When it seemed Ochako had calmed down he showed her to a small washroom inside the house. "We usually take baths on the riverbank but maybe this will be enough" he showed her a bucket of water and a clean cloth to clean herself with "I-I'll be back with some clothes for you" Ochako nods. She waits for his footsteps to fade before starting to undress. It has been so long since she's been allowed this kind of privacy. Back in her cell all the cleaning she was allowed were the buckets of cold water thrown at her every so often. She can't wait to be able to go to the river Izuku had mentioned and take a formal bath but it helped to be able to clean herself./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Mr. Yagi insists in eating something before leaving, despite the urgency she feels to find the doctor she can't ignore her grumbling stomach. Mr. Yagi warns her against eating too fast or too much in case her stomach would be upset but she still manages to eat at least three servings. Izuku does his best not to stare at the girl but his concern only grows by the second, one look at his master tells him the old man feels the same./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"And so, she starts by talking about the attack her kingdom received years back. She explains the slaughter of her father and the rape of her mother. Every so often she would stop to take deep breaths and steady herself retelling the horrors she'd witnessed at a young age, Izuku is the only one brave enough to place a hand over hers in a sign of comfort. She squeezes it and pushes through the pain. She explains her captor had only kept her alive all this time to harness her magical power once she came of age and her permanent wings appeared./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"The doctor cuts open the leather bind and immediately a putrid smell pours out from it filling the room. Ochako has to make an effort not to gag, her eyes fill with tears. Is that smell her wings? Dr. Aizawa hands some wet cloths to them before continuing the inspection. The gossamer wings don't perk up when freed out of their cage, they stay limp behind her back, Ochako's wings used to be a soft pink but now they'd changed into a sick combination of green, blue and gray./p
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