Esca's POV

When night came, no food was given and to make it even better it rained. For three hours we sat in the freezing rain. Luckly, some god must of been looking out for us, for a cloaked figure came to where we tied. But looking closer we saw it was Tallis with her bear and mountian lions trailing behind her. She went straight toward Percious. He pressed himself as far into his post as he could, his eyes wide with fright.

"Peace. You have not done anything to gain another beating." she then smiled softly and teased, "Unless you have something to confess to me?" Her voice light and full of humor.

Percious leaned closer to her. She smiled at him and draped a fur blanket over his shoulder, the hide on the outside keeping the rain from hitting him as hard as it was before. She moved to Lirk, myself, Marcus, Fallious, and Narisious giving us all the same treatment, a soft smile and a small joke. Then turned to leave.

"Hey!" Mallious yelled at her. She looked over her shoulder at him "You forgot me!"

She turned and started to walk back to him, "I did not forget you. I simply do not want to give you any warmth. Seeing how your heart gave no warmth to your comrade who had just taking a beating. And yet all you could do was laugh at him. Even your own brother showed warmth when you just tried to make Percious feel worse."

Mallious's eyes widen at all of the facts she just stated: Mallious laughed at Pericous, she knew Pericous's name, she knew Mallious had a brother and that said brother showed Pericous kindness when he did not.

"Now, you also did not believe that I could kick that hard. Personally, I find that the most offending of all of the things I have stated. Perhaps I should let you feel first-hand how hard I can hit."

She then punched him the face; his nose broke and gushing blood, his checkbone was cracked, and his lip was busted and bleeding heavily. She then stood up and gave a quick ,but strong, kick to his gut. Mallious' head hung lowly showing that he had been knocked unconicous.

Tallis then turned and went back to where she came from, a dark and warm home.

"Well, that was unexpected." Lirk stated quietly.

"Yeah, but I am glad she did it." Fallious said softly looking at his brother.

"Cannot wait until he wakes." Percious smiled

"Careful Percious, that is what got him in that mess." Marcus said being the voice of reason, as usual.

"Is it me, or was she very beautiful when she smiled?" Narisious sighed

"She was beautiful even when she was ontop of that beast of a bear." I whispered quietly, and luckliyl no one heard me. Everyone started to doze off into the much warmer night.

Timeskip

I had awoken first, as per usual, and looked around the village. Most of the men and children were up and doing some chores. Some men when starting to cook and the children where feeding animals. I then noticed and a woman wearing a dress the color of mint. Her hair was down and had a lot of metal clips in it. She must of felt my gaze and turned toward me.