Johanna didn't rest that night because she wanted to make sure no one entered the house, Frida and David slept that night in her house because it was too dangerous to get out that night, and their parents let them, even though it was a very hard night: many people yelling, sounds of guns firing and even some explosions, the situation wasn't obviously taken out of control, that morning Johanna waked up the kids and told them to serve some cereal and then she slept in the sofa. While she slept, the kids started talking:
"What do you think is doing Hilda?" David asked Frida while he started to serve cereal in a bowl.
"She might be still sleeping, I think she didn't rest last night" she answered as she took out the milk.
"You might be true, the trolls still are over there even after the army purged them tho" He doubted as he started to pour milk. "But she might have slept in a safe place, and she haves Alfur and Twig"
"All I hope is that they are safe and unharmed" Frida said doubtfully, and she looked Hilda's mom. "And I think she would be praising god for her"
"So…" David started as he started eating cereal. "So what do we do now? Do we get out or stay in the house?"
"We should stay safe and not leave the house until the crisis is over or, at least, when it's safer." Frida proposed, as she also started eating.
"I think the same way, do we play dragon panic for now?" David suggested.
"Yeah!" she answered. "We can't be here doing nothing!"
"Good" he approved, but he couldn't stop thinking if Hilda was ok or not.
Hilda waked up to the voice of Alfur, she was still very sleepy because she started sleeping at 1:00 a.m. and walked a very long trail before that, still, she opened her backpack and ate a cucumber sandwich and some water, then she stood up and continued walking with Alfur and Twig, as they were talking:
"So how far are we from Trollberg now, Alfur?" she asked, as Alfur checked the map.
"Like… 25 kilometers from home now" the little elf answered. "And what time is it?"
"9:00 a.m., we started walking 30 minutes ago" she responded. "But we didn't find Raven yet and it doesn't seems to be any clues near here"
"Be optimistic, we will find him any time soon" Alfur smiled.
"… Hopefully" she doubted.
They were crossing some mountains (where it appeared to be a lot of trolls, probably they ran from the purge of trolls the last year to here) when they found a cave, ehere it appeared to be inhabited by someone, as there was a campfire, some cups and dirty dishes, also something that appeared to be a tent, but there wasn't nobody to receive them, so Hilda thought "What happened here? Nobody is here" but it seemed that the cave was deeper, so she entered, although Alfur didn't wanted to and Twig became nervous. Hilda turned on a stick with fire and walked deeper, then she founded what appeared to be a battle scene:
"Wh-What happened here?" Alfur fretted.
"I don't know, but someone started a fight" she answered and ordered Twig to smell the blood and broken objects, it returned with some big feathers and a lab coat.
"Big feathers, raven-like feathers… These are from the Great Raven! What happened to him?" Hilda worried about Raven being in trouble.
"He also lost blood!" Alfur yelled as he discovered that some blood started to have some electric flow.
Twig smelled some more blood and roar, Hilda checked the blood.
"But not all the blood is from Raven, some is… human?" she said curiously as she started thinking "Seems that Raven actually put of a fight before she got captured, and the one who captured him is human… and Twig seems to know her…" As she thought this she said:
"I think I know who might have kidnapped Raven"
"Really? Who?!" Alfur wondered.
"… Victoria, Victoria Von Gale…" she accused as they started to leave the cave.
"That mad bitch!"
"So… this seems to be Raven's house" guessed Alfur.
"Yes, and it seems that Victoria tried to capture him, but got hurt in the process." She continued.
"But where do we found Raven?" Alfur asked as they left Raven's home.
"… In that mountain." Hilda answered as she looked to a mountain that was taking out some kind of storm. "There's no time to lose, hurry Twig."
It passed an hour when Raven had (again) waked up in the first room he waked up, in his smaller form, chained, but curiously he felted more strong (maybe victory feed him in some kind of way?) so raven started looking something near him and founded some broken sharpy metal, paper and a bowl. He then started thinking of how to break free with these when Victoria entered the room:
"Are you getting better?" She asked.
"… N-no" he answered, trying to imitate a weaker voice.
"Huh, curious, I fed you via injection and you still feel pretty weak?" she asked curiously.
"Well, birds aren't feed via blood, you know?
"I thought It would work… well, while you don't die, I'm ok with that" She said, and then left the room.
Raven then putted the paper on his leg in the chain and started cutting with the metal the chain, as he had the paper on his leg, the chain wouldn't electrocute him as he destroyed the chain. After he broke the chain, he transformed in his bigger form.
"Now you're so dead, Victoria, You won't hurt Hilda or anyone, as soon as I have blood on my body." He yelled " I will protect Hilda until my last drop of blood" and then he charged to the door.
