Daine
"…. Magelet…. magelet…magelet…" the wind whispered, but this only made Daine ride faster in the opposite direction to the pull of the word.
Daine didn't know where she was heading but in her desperation to get away she didn't see that the darkness was slowly eating the light.
That night she set up camp, on her own for the fist time, and found that it was very lonely.
"Cloud, where do you think I should go? Duluth or maybe snowsdale?'" Daine asked her only companion.
"You want my advice?" Huffed the miserable horse "I think you should go straight back home and marry the storkman."
"I cant…I cant…." She wept, tears free flowing down her face as it began to rain. Sitting down on a log, next to her tent, she thought about what to do.
That night as Daine tried to sleep, twisting and turning all night. One image burned into her mind. In her dreams she felt his arms around her, in her wake she heard him talk to her.
Half asleep she heard a quite whispering. Suddenly she woke adrenaline pumping, through her whole body. She lay quite trying to hear what the people outside her tents were saying. Deciding on a course of action she grabbed her bow and flew out of her tent, changing her eyes to those of an owls to see better in the dark light. Assessing the situation she saw, 12 armed men against her, cloud and the animals. Nice odds. Daine put an arrow into her bow, and shot a man to her right. One down eleven to go.
Cloud, watching Daine's arrow as her shot hit a man to her right said " I will take the left then.'" And charged of at 4 men, who were waving their swords around but then promptly dropped them upon seeing a charging horse coming their way.
Distracted, by cloud's fight Daine didn't see a bearded man creep up behind her and place a dagger to her throat. In her shock she grumbled 'leave me alone' which made no difference to the man, holding her life in his hands. The man barked back 'lone women ask for it' and lowered his hand to rest on her hip.
The birds understanding her distress, rushed to her aid. A great mass of them flew down, aiming for his eyes, the man waving his arms in feeble attempts to drive the birds away. His dagger placed back onto his belt, forgotten.
Daine stared at the man, and watched as his flesh being pecked away, and felt nothing. It seemed that without Numair all the feeling within Daine disappeared. It made her wondered that how long, could she live without her love. she wondered How long can a person live without water?
In a thoughtful daze Daine didn't notice a second man walk up to her left and smash a club into her head. She didn't notice, cloud's cries as the horse fell to the ground broken, dieing from multiple sword wounds. She didn't notice all the birds go quite. All she notice was the darkness that came to swallow her up. And she welcomed it.