p dir="ltr"When Saphryn awoke she again found herself in chains. The only difference was that, this time, each hand was separately chained to walls opposite of each other. Her feet were also hooked up to the floor. It was clear to her that the soldiers thought their set up would immobilize her. They were deadly Saphryn's eyes drifted off to her other surroundings. To her left was a wooden crate rotted by age. Inside she could barely make out the shape of TNT. This wasn't the only problem with their set up. To her right was another old crate holding swords of different models. There were also shields across the room she recognized as the passage entrance behind the third floor training arena. Saphryn could now see that it was actually a storage unit. The real passage was through a door directly behind her jabbing her back./p
p dir="ltr"There was a sound of crashing blades on the other side of the door. She cringed. Before Saphryn had a chance to look away, the door opened to reveal Tyler and the soldier who had told her to surrender. She looked past them and into the room beyond. The crash was from a shelf of weapons on the far side of the floor./p
p dir="ltr""Well now, isn't this a surprise?" Tyler asked his friend as if they had no idea how the girl in front of them had gotten there. "Oh Saphryn, why did you try to escape when you knew it was a trap." His voice was filled with faked compassion. He pitied her. "You had better not run off again or there will be consequences." He pulled a medium sized dagger from its sheath. As he drew nearer to Saphryn she fell as far back as she could with her hands and feet bound to keep her from moving. "I warned you this could happen the first time you tried to leave. You should have known it was coming." With that he led the blade across Saphryn's right arm. He had already managed to slash her left./p
p dir="ltr"The blood spiraled down Saphryn's arm. It was warm to her icy skin. Pain also filled her as she tried to move her arm away from the blade. The dagger then made a turn to keep from ending up as a clean cut. This caused even more blood to flow from the slit./p
p dir="ltr"Tyler lifted the dagger just in time. He was startled when the same alarm that had gone off every time Saphryn had tried to escape rang out once more. "I'll deal with you later." He said as the two soldiers hurried to their positions on the outside./p
p dir="ltr"Saphryn just sat where she was waiting for the men to return. It wasn't long before the blood she had lost took its toll. She soon passed out once again. By that point she had entered the abyss many times, and wasn't surprised by the frozen air in the dark place./p
p dir="ltr"Soldiers rushed from the open gates to defend their base from the intruder. The warrior was silent as he swept another of the soldiers off his feet. To his right a member of his gang took out enemy upon enemy. The warrior laughed. "Aren't you going to save some for me?" he asked pretending to be a strict man completely unlike his true self. He had heard a rummer that there was a prisoner here who had the ability to heal the the land. At this point he was just hoping the rummer was true and that he hadn't risked all he had for nothing./p
p dir="ltr"The boy at his side just laughed, and dodged one of his enemies to allow the warrior a fight. The man was down before a second strike. "Go release the prisoners now. I have a feeling these are the last of the guards." The boy was right. Only seven men still stood, and each had been wounded. Warrior nodded in agreement and went on his way./p
p dir="ltr"The warrior passed many rooms on his way to the dungeon. In most all of them there was a stock of weaponry as well as a map of the villages the army had taken over. He had passed at least a dozen of these areas before at last making it to the stairs leading down. Walking down the stone steps he noticed a wall that had been decorated with tally marks. There were seventeen in all. Above he saw an inscription. "Number of attempts" He read aloud. "Someone must have been hard set on escaping." he noted chuckling a bit. He had never heard of so many attempts in his life. "It must be more than one person. Maybe they were trying to start a riot."/p
p dir="ltr"Again the warrior set off to the dungeon. When he got there he found the doors wide open and completely unguarded. It was then that he heard a voice from a near by cell. "Please," The voice was that of a old man the warrior noted as he got closer. "Please help us." he rasped./p
p dir="ltr"The warrior quickly looked around for the keys. He spotted them on a metal hook near the door he'd just walked through. As soon as he had them he unlocked the door to the cell nearest to him. "Thank you so very much." The man said as he stood. "Might I be able to assist you in freeing the others?" he asked./p
p dir="ltr"The warrior stared at him. His figure was crippled from being in the cell so long. Every part of his body was worn from old age except his eyes which shone with great knowledge. "If you wish to I would be grateful for the help." The warrior replied as he opened another cell. He cupped both hands around the key. There was a small flash of light, and his hands separated revealing two keys where there had only been one. He handed the duplicate to the prisoner./p
p dir="ltr"Together they released all the prisoners on that floor. They then moved to the lower levels where the more dangerous enemies were held. After what seemed like hours the warrior had managed to get them all outside. Only after that did one of the most dangerous prisoners come up to the warrior to say anything other than a word of thanks. "There is one more inside." He said quietly to the man who had saved him. "She was in the cell across from mine."/p
p dir="ltr"The warrior looked at the boy, once again puzzled. "There was no one in the cell across from yours. I clearly remember it being empty," he spoke while rethinking the situation. "And I saw no girl when releasing you or any of the others." Of that he was sure./p
p dir="ltr"The boy just shook his head. "She disappeared last night on another breakout attempt." He recalled pulling a piece of parchment from the pocket of his old jeans. "After you got me out I went to see what she had hidden under a rock in the corner." He passed it to the warrior. "I have a feeling that she is still in the passage behind the third floor training room." He knew it was a trap and also knew that if she were to get out he wouldn't be feeling such high levels of raw power in the air./p
p dir="ltr"The warrior quickly skimmed the note trying not to show any reaction. "You're right." He admitted after reading through the letter three times. "There is a good chance that she is still in the passage. Can you lead me to it?" The boy nodded. "By the way, you said that this girl made a number of attempts to escape right?" The boy again nodded. "Exactly how many attempts did she make before she disappeared?"/p
p dir="ltr"The boy smiled. He couldn't wait to see the warrior's face when he answered. "The one you just read about was her eighteenth attempt since she came here." As he'd anticipated the warrior's reaction was nothing short of pure disbelief./p
p dir="ltr"The warrior was still stuck on how a girl could escape her cell enough for every attempt to go on the wall when they came to the door of the third floor training room. The two went to work immediately on finding the door. It took them only a few minutes to find and pass through to the room beyond. It was there that they found a girl passed out while chained to the wall with blood flowing down both her arms. There was already a puddle at her feet. "We need to get her out of here, fast." The boy said as he tried to smash one of the cuffs that encircled her wrists. They had her unchained in no time. "I'll carry her." He offered when the warrior bent down to pick her up. "I know a healer from one of the cells not far from mine. I'm sure he'll be happy to help." With that they moved more slowly to join the others in the field just outside the facility./p
p dir="ltr"When they got out to the others more than a few of the more dangerous prisoners came to see what was going on. One man offered to take the girl while another asked if he should go to get the healer. All the others just lingered near by waiting for her to wake up./p
p dir="ltr"It took the healer a while to get to where the girl lay on the ground. He inspected the wounds on both arms, but made no action to heal either. "The cuts are too deep for me to heal with such little power. The best I can do is cover the wounds to stop the flow of blood." He spoke softly so nobody other than the warrior would hear the news. "She would need to be taken to an expert healer."/p
p dir="ltr"Just after the healer finished tying a piece of cloth over over the cut the girl began to regain consciousness. It took her a second to process her surroundings, but when she did she was wide awake. "Where am I?" she asked confused. She then saw the boy from the cell across her own. "Fray? What's going on?"/p
p dir="ltr"She tried to stand, but the boy, Fray, stopped her. "Calm down Saphryn. You're safe here. Besides you need time to heal. You lost a lot of blood." The warrior moved to get a closer look at the girl who seemed to be close friends with most of the deadly people locked up in the dungeons. Fray caught his gaze. "This is the man who bested the guards and released the prisoners." he continued pointing to the warrior. "He's also the one who helped me find you again." He blushed for a moment./p
p dir="ltr"The warrior entered the conversation for reasons not even he knew. "Your friend was worried when you didn't return. He'd read the letter you received during dinner, and knew it was a trap." Saphryn looked at Fray with mock surprise. They had been together all their lives, and had managed to create an unbreakable bond. "If it weren't for him you would still be chained up." The warrior just stared at Saphryn when he was done speaking. He was half expecting her to disappear any time now. The worst part was that he had no idea why he felt this way. "By any chance do either of you know where I might be able to find the wizard with the power of nature? My team received information that he might have been held here."/p
p dir="ltr"Saphryn paled and many of the people belonging to the deadly group froze and stared at Saphryn and the warrior. "The wizard you speak of calls himself the sapphire knight and is actually a emshe/em." Saphryn said at last. "She did come here though the soldiers on duty to transport her had made absolutely sure that nobody knew about the transfer."/p
p dir="ltr""I see." The warrior replied deep in thought. "Thank you for the information."/p
p dir="ltr"By that point the conversation had stopped, and a crowd had gathered to see how Saphryn was doing. "I'm can promise you that I'm quite alright." She assured one of her new found friends./p
p dir="ltr"The warrior continued to watch the commotion until his team found him."So did you find the wizard or was it another miss?" A seventeen year old boy asked shivering at the thought of breaking into another heavily guarded base for nothing. He looked into his leader's eyes. "Are you okay? You seem a little out of sorts at the moment." He noted worried that the man in front of him had taken his battles too many at a time./p
p dir="ltr"The warrior just sat where he was staring into space. "Yes, I'm alright, but in answer to your first question, I have no idea." The teenager sighed. Something was on his mind that he wasn't going to tell anyone as long as he had a choice. "By the way I have a proposition."/p
p dir="ltr"The whole team looked at their leader expecting him to suggest another place to look for the wizard who healed land. "And what might that be?" A man in his early twenties pressed trying to end the situation quickly./p
p dir="ltr""Do you all see that girl over there?" Everyone turned to look at the teenage girl talking to some of the others. They then nodded simultaneously unsure of what a young girl would had to do with one of the team's choices. "I was told by her friend that she had managed to break past the outer walls seventeen times and had only been caught before the wall once on her eighteenth try." The team showed no reaction, but the warrior knew they had just found a new respect for the girl. "Her friend Fray also told me that she was separated from her family as a child. That means that she has nowhere to go now that she's been released. I was thinking that we could take her in and have her and Fray become part of our team if they agree to our terms."/p
p dir="ltr"It was one of the teenagers who spoke up first. "You do realize that she would be the only girl in the group, correct?" His voice was filled with uncertainty. He'd never expected there to be an addition to the group, but was looking forward to the change if it would take place. "Either way I agree. It would be nice to have more people. We never know what talents she might bring to the table, but I'm positive that they will come in handy at some point." There was a murmur around the circle. Most of them could see that she would make a good bonus to their team./p
p dir="ltr""Let's take a vote." A second teenager a little younger than the first declared. "All those in favor of inviting the girl and her friend into our group?" All eight of the men in the circle raised their hands. "Any opposed?" He asked when he knew there was no point. "Then it's all set. Since you suggested it pops, you get to ask them."/p
p dir="ltr"Nodding, he stood quickly and was rewarded with a short headache which caused him to be blinded temporarily. As the warrior made his way to the group that took up much of the space available in the meadow the prisoners moved aside to form a path. It was then that Saphryn saw him heading her way. "What's up?" She asked separating herself from the others. She rubbed the back of he neck slightly lowering her eyes from his. "Hey," she began shyly. "Thanks again for helping us all break free from the facility."/p
p dir="ltr"The warrior smiled. He knew that Saphryn would have made it out eventually even without his help. "No problem," He said at last. "I wouldn't have guessed that any of the prisons would hold such a variety of people." Saphryn laughed. He had no idea how right he was. "Anyway, I've been talking to your friend, Fray I believe, and he told me that you haven't got a place to go now that you've been freed." It was there that he paused unsure of how to continue. "I talked this over with my team, and they agreed that if you two want to join us that they would be happy to let you."/p
p dir="ltr"Saphryn stared at the man in front of her trying to read his thoughts through his expression. "You're serious aren't you?" She asked suddenly. "I don't want to be a burden to any of you." He nodded silently. "You don't have to take me in. Fray and I have been living alone for the past six years. I can take care of myself ."/p
p dir="ltr""I insist that you come with us."/p
p dir="ltr"Saphryn, still uncertain, took a step back. "I don't know if that's a good idea. The solders will be on the lookout for the breakout people with a higher chance of offsetting their plans. If I come with you it could get all of you killed."/p
p dir="ltr"It was another man that stepped forward. "If that's how you look at the situation then we would also be on that list of people for the solders to watch out for." He countered. "If some of the ex-prisoners got together with a group of rebels they will be less willing to go after either group without backup."/p
p dir="ltr""He has a point" Fray added leaning against the trunk of a tree near by. "The only problem is that she has a special relationship with one of their solders and hasn't been mentally able to harm him in any way for six years because she still cares for him." His attention was turned to the team before him once again. "And their general knew this and used it to his advantage may times."/p
p dir="ltr""It's not my fault I grew up with him as a brother!" Saphryn shouted. "I can't control who the family is!" She threw herself against the tree opposite Fray's. "You know very well that the information you just presented only held true until seven months ago, and besides I'm not going to murder anyone. Making him pass out is good enough for now. If it gets to the point where I have to draw blood I will but not until it's absolutely necessary."/p
p dir="ltr""We have all agreed that you can join. There's nobody against it. If you do have a destination in mind we will take you that far." The warrior continued./p
p dir="ltr"Fray spoke up before Saphryn had the chance. "We'll join." he said quickly. With those two words the day was done and everyone went to bed./p
p dir="ltr"There was a sound of crashing blades on the other side of the door. She cringed. Before Saphryn had a chance to look away, the door opened to reveal Tyler and the soldier who had told her to surrender. She looked past them and into the room beyond. The crash was from a shelf of weapons on the far side of the floor./p
p dir="ltr""Well now, isn't this a surprise?" Tyler asked his friend as if they had no idea how the girl in front of them had gotten there. "Oh Saphryn, why did you try to escape when you knew it was a trap." His voice was filled with faked compassion. He pitied her. "You had better not run off again or there will be consequences." He pulled a medium sized dagger from its sheath. As he drew nearer to Saphryn she fell as far back as she could with her hands and feet bound to keep her from moving. "I warned you this could happen the first time you tried to leave. You should have known it was coming." With that he led the blade across Saphryn's right arm. He had already managed to slash her left./p
p dir="ltr"The blood spiraled down Saphryn's arm. It was warm to her icy skin. Pain also filled her as she tried to move her arm away from the blade. The dagger then made a turn to keep from ending up as a clean cut. This caused even more blood to flow from the slit./p
p dir="ltr"Tyler lifted the dagger just in time. He was startled when the same alarm that had gone off every time Saphryn had tried to escape rang out once more. "I'll deal with you later." He said as the two soldiers hurried to their positions on the outside./p
p dir="ltr"Saphryn just sat where she was waiting for the men to return. It wasn't long before the blood she had lost took its toll. She soon passed out once again. By that point she had entered the abyss many times, and wasn't surprised by the frozen air in the dark place./p
p dir="ltr"Soldiers rushed from the open gates to defend their base from the intruder. The warrior was silent as he swept another of the soldiers off his feet. To his right a member of his gang took out enemy upon enemy. The warrior laughed. "Aren't you going to save some for me?" he asked pretending to be a strict man completely unlike his true self. He had heard a rummer that there was a prisoner here who had the ability to heal the the land. At this point he was just hoping the rummer was true and that he hadn't risked all he had for nothing./p
p dir="ltr"The boy at his side just laughed, and dodged one of his enemies to allow the warrior a fight. The man was down before a second strike. "Go release the prisoners now. I have a feeling these are the last of the guards." The boy was right. Only seven men still stood, and each had been wounded. Warrior nodded in agreement and went on his way./p
p dir="ltr"The warrior passed many rooms on his way to the dungeon. In most all of them there was a stock of weaponry as well as a map of the villages the army had taken over. He had passed at least a dozen of these areas before at last making it to the stairs leading down. Walking down the stone steps he noticed a wall that had been decorated with tally marks. There were seventeen in all. Above he saw an inscription. "Number of attempts" He read aloud. "Someone must have been hard set on escaping." he noted chuckling a bit. He had never heard of so many attempts in his life. "It must be more than one person. Maybe they were trying to start a riot."/p
p dir="ltr"Again the warrior set off to the dungeon. When he got there he found the doors wide open and completely unguarded. It was then that he heard a voice from a near by cell. "Please," The voice was that of a old man the warrior noted as he got closer. "Please help us." he rasped./p
p dir="ltr"The warrior quickly looked around for the keys. He spotted them on a metal hook near the door he'd just walked through. As soon as he had them he unlocked the door to the cell nearest to him. "Thank you so very much." The man said as he stood. "Might I be able to assist you in freeing the others?" he asked./p
p dir="ltr"The warrior stared at him. His figure was crippled from being in the cell so long. Every part of his body was worn from old age except his eyes which shone with great knowledge. "If you wish to I would be grateful for the help." The warrior replied as he opened another cell. He cupped both hands around the key. There was a small flash of light, and his hands separated revealing two keys where there had only been one. He handed the duplicate to the prisoner./p
p dir="ltr"Together they released all the prisoners on that floor. They then moved to the lower levels where the more dangerous enemies were held. After what seemed like hours the warrior had managed to get them all outside. Only after that did one of the most dangerous prisoners come up to the warrior to say anything other than a word of thanks. "There is one more inside." He said quietly to the man who had saved him. "She was in the cell across from mine."/p
p dir="ltr"The warrior looked at the boy, once again puzzled. "There was no one in the cell across from yours. I clearly remember it being empty," he spoke while rethinking the situation. "And I saw no girl when releasing you or any of the others." Of that he was sure./p
p dir="ltr"The boy just shook his head. "She disappeared last night on another breakout attempt." He recalled pulling a piece of parchment from the pocket of his old jeans. "After you got me out I went to see what she had hidden under a rock in the corner." He passed it to the warrior. "I have a feeling that she is still in the passage behind the third floor training room." He knew it was a trap and also knew that if she were to get out he wouldn't be feeling such high levels of raw power in the air./p
p dir="ltr"The warrior quickly skimmed the note trying not to show any reaction. "You're right." He admitted after reading through the letter three times. "There is a good chance that she is still in the passage. Can you lead me to it?" The boy nodded. "By the way, you said that this girl made a number of attempts to escape right?" The boy again nodded. "Exactly how many attempts did she make before she disappeared?"/p
p dir="ltr"The boy smiled. He couldn't wait to see the warrior's face when he answered. "The one you just read about was her eighteenth attempt since she came here." As he'd anticipated the warrior's reaction was nothing short of pure disbelief./p
p dir="ltr"The warrior was still stuck on how a girl could escape her cell enough for every attempt to go on the wall when they came to the door of the third floor training room. The two went to work immediately on finding the door. It took them only a few minutes to find and pass through to the room beyond. It was there that they found a girl passed out while chained to the wall with blood flowing down both her arms. There was already a puddle at her feet. "We need to get her out of here, fast." The boy said as he tried to smash one of the cuffs that encircled her wrists. They had her unchained in no time. "I'll carry her." He offered when the warrior bent down to pick her up. "I know a healer from one of the cells not far from mine. I'm sure he'll be happy to help." With that they moved more slowly to join the others in the field just outside the facility./p
p dir="ltr"When they got out to the others more than a few of the more dangerous prisoners came to see what was going on. One man offered to take the girl while another asked if he should go to get the healer. All the others just lingered near by waiting for her to wake up./p
p dir="ltr"It took the healer a while to get to where the girl lay on the ground. He inspected the wounds on both arms, but made no action to heal either. "The cuts are too deep for me to heal with such little power. The best I can do is cover the wounds to stop the flow of blood." He spoke softly so nobody other than the warrior would hear the news. "She would need to be taken to an expert healer."/p
p dir="ltr"Just after the healer finished tying a piece of cloth over over the cut the girl began to regain consciousness. It took her a second to process her surroundings, but when she did she was wide awake. "Where am I?" she asked confused. She then saw the boy from the cell across her own. "Fray? What's going on?"/p
p dir="ltr"She tried to stand, but the boy, Fray, stopped her. "Calm down Saphryn. You're safe here. Besides you need time to heal. You lost a lot of blood." The warrior moved to get a closer look at the girl who seemed to be close friends with most of the deadly people locked up in the dungeons. Fray caught his gaze. "This is the man who bested the guards and released the prisoners." he continued pointing to the warrior. "He's also the one who helped me find you again." He blushed for a moment./p
p dir="ltr"The warrior entered the conversation for reasons not even he knew. "Your friend was worried when you didn't return. He'd read the letter you received during dinner, and knew it was a trap." Saphryn looked at Fray with mock surprise. They had been together all their lives, and had managed to create an unbreakable bond. "If it weren't for him you would still be chained up." The warrior just stared at Saphryn when he was done speaking. He was half expecting her to disappear any time now. The worst part was that he had no idea why he felt this way. "By any chance do either of you know where I might be able to find the wizard with the power of nature? My team received information that he might have been held here."/p
p dir="ltr"Saphryn paled and many of the people belonging to the deadly group froze and stared at Saphryn and the warrior. "The wizard you speak of calls himself the sapphire knight and is actually a emshe/em." Saphryn said at last. "She did come here though the soldiers on duty to transport her had made absolutely sure that nobody knew about the transfer."/p
p dir="ltr""I see." The warrior replied deep in thought. "Thank you for the information."/p
p dir="ltr"By that point the conversation had stopped, and a crowd had gathered to see how Saphryn was doing. "I'm can promise you that I'm quite alright." She assured one of her new found friends./p
p dir="ltr"The warrior continued to watch the commotion until his team found him."So did you find the wizard or was it another miss?" A seventeen year old boy asked shivering at the thought of breaking into another heavily guarded base for nothing. He looked into his leader's eyes. "Are you okay? You seem a little out of sorts at the moment." He noted worried that the man in front of him had taken his battles too many at a time./p
p dir="ltr"The warrior just sat where he was staring into space. "Yes, I'm alright, but in answer to your first question, I have no idea." The teenager sighed. Something was on his mind that he wasn't going to tell anyone as long as he had a choice. "By the way I have a proposition."/p
p dir="ltr"The whole team looked at their leader expecting him to suggest another place to look for the wizard who healed land. "And what might that be?" A man in his early twenties pressed trying to end the situation quickly./p
p dir="ltr""Do you all see that girl over there?" Everyone turned to look at the teenage girl talking to some of the others. They then nodded simultaneously unsure of what a young girl would had to do with one of the team's choices. "I was told by her friend that she had managed to break past the outer walls seventeen times and had only been caught before the wall once on her eighteenth try." The team showed no reaction, but the warrior knew they had just found a new respect for the girl. "Her friend Fray also told me that she was separated from her family as a child. That means that she has nowhere to go now that she's been released. I was thinking that we could take her in and have her and Fray become part of our team if they agree to our terms."/p
p dir="ltr"It was one of the teenagers who spoke up first. "You do realize that she would be the only girl in the group, correct?" His voice was filled with uncertainty. He'd never expected there to be an addition to the group, but was looking forward to the change if it would take place. "Either way I agree. It would be nice to have more people. We never know what talents she might bring to the table, but I'm positive that they will come in handy at some point." There was a murmur around the circle. Most of them could see that she would make a good bonus to their team./p
p dir="ltr""Let's take a vote." A second teenager a little younger than the first declared. "All those in favor of inviting the girl and her friend into our group?" All eight of the men in the circle raised their hands. "Any opposed?" He asked when he knew there was no point. "Then it's all set. Since you suggested it pops, you get to ask them."/p
p dir="ltr"Nodding, he stood quickly and was rewarded with a short headache which caused him to be blinded temporarily. As the warrior made his way to the group that took up much of the space available in the meadow the prisoners moved aside to form a path. It was then that Saphryn saw him heading her way. "What's up?" She asked separating herself from the others. She rubbed the back of he neck slightly lowering her eyes from his. "Hey," she began shyly. "Thanks again for helping us all break free from the facility."/p
p dir="ltr"The warrior smiled. He knew that Saphryn would have made it out eventually even without his help. "No problem," He said at last. "I wouldn't have guessed that any of the prisons would hold such a variety of people." Saphryn laughed. He had no idea how right he was. "Anyway, I've been talking to your friend, Fray I believe, and he told me that you haven't got a place to go now that you've been freed." It was there that he paused unsure of how to continue. "I talked this over with my team, and they agreed that if you two want to join us that they would be happy to let you."/p
p dir="ltr"Saphryn stared at the man in front of her trying to read his thoughts through his expression. "You're serious aren't you?" She asked suddenly. "I don't want to be a burden to any of you." He nodded silently. "You don't have to take me in. Fray and I have been living alone for the past six years. I can take care of myself ."/p
p dir="ltr""I insist that you come with us."/p
p dir="ltr"Saphryn, still uncertain, took a step back. "I don't know if that's a good idea. The solders will be on the lookout for the breakout people with a higher chance of offsetting their plans. If I come with you it could get all of you killed."/p
p dir="ltr"It was another man that stepped forward. "If that's how you look at the situation then we would also be on that list of people for the solders to watch out for." He countered. "If some of the ex-prisoners got together with a group of rebels they will be less willing to go after either group without backup."/p
p dir="ltr""He has a point" Fray added leaning against the trunk of a tree near by. "The only problem is that she has a special relationship with one of their solders and hasn't been mentally able to harm him in any way for six years because she still cares for him." His attention was turned to the team before him once again. "And their general knew this and used it to his advantage may times."/p
p dir="ltr""It's not my fault I grew up with him as a brother!" Saphryn shouted. "I can't control who the family is!" She threw herself against the tree opposite Fray's. "You know very well that the information you just presented only held true until seven months ago, and besides I'm not going to murder anyone. Making him pass out is good enough for now. If it gets to the point where I have to draw blood I will but not until it's absolutely necessary."/p
p dir="ltr""We have all agreed that you can join. There's nobody against it. If you do have a destination in mind we will take you that far." The warrior continued./p
p dir="ltr"Fray spoke up before Saphryn had the chance. "We'll join." he said quickly. With those two words the day was done and everyone went to bed./p