scov"Oh, my dear Indi, you really shouldn't have said that!" Zann grinned evilly. Indigo gulped; there was no telling what Zann would do, now that he was really mad. Well, she was about to find out.
Zann flew through the air towards Indigo, totally aggravated. Indigo knew that if she didn't act fast, she was going to be a human shish kabob. At the very last second, Indigo dove underneath Zann, forcing him to go tumbling across the floor.
He whirled around, fire burning in his eyes. Zann started towards Indigo again, being slightly more cautious this time. He grinned, seeing the fear in Indigo's eyes as he slowly crept toward her.
In a flash, Zann was standing above Indigo, his cold sword nearly piercing the skin on her neck. She stared up into his wild eyes, thinking "I'm going to die; he's really going to kill me." And yet strangely, Zann just sat there, as if waiting for her to struggle.
Finally, Zann raised his sword, poised to kill her. Indigo squeezed her eyes shut, hoping it would be fast. Two seconds later, she heard a sigh, and then the clatter of metal on a stone floor.
Startled, Indigo's piercing, well, indigo eyes flew open. She was no longer in any danger, Zann was gone. She let out a breath she didn't know she had been holding and lifted up her head. The hall was empty, almost as if the fight had never taken place. If it hadn't been for the sword lying next to her, and the blood smudges on the floor, she would have sworn that she had dreamt the whole thing.
She shakily got to her feet, nearly collapsing from exhaustion. She cursed herself; she should have been in better shape.
She ran, the best she could, towards the exit of the vast mansion. She could only hope that Zann was not waiting in the shadows, waiting for her to run past.
Indigo was in luck; she got out without seeing Zann or anyone else. She stopped, trying to catch her breath.
She had failed her mission. Zann was loose and the files were still somewhere in the building. Her master was going to have her head, quite literally to, unless she could talk her way out of it. However, the chances of that happening were slim to none, so it looked like she wasn't going back to the headquarters in Gwithania any time soon. She was stuck here in the small town (meaning the only buildings in it were Zann's mansion and a store) of Dandor until she could figure out how to fix this.
There was only one problem: she was due back to Gwithania in three hours, and she didn't have the files. Indigo really didn't feel like going through another fight with Zann, she was too tired for that, but she also couldn't get in the mansion without running into him.
Indigo had two options: go back to Gwithania and have her master chew her out and quite possibly injure her or try and get back into the mansion and have Zann possibly find and kill her. Either way, she was doomed and she knew it.
Indigo thought for a second. "Shoot." She said, making her way back into the mansion.