"Get up! Get up!", Alora said.

He was gripping onto his thigh real bad. His hand was coated in his blood. The mysterious lady had struck him with a magical fire blast. He let go of the wound and the flame went right through barely missing the bone. It was bad, he couldn't stop bleeding. He held as much he could but he was losing too much blood way too fast. He tore off his sleeve and wrapped it around the wound. He let of the sleeve and it was quickly trenched in his blood

"Just go.", he clinched onto the wound applying more pressure. "She coming there's no point in both of us dying." 

Alora stood there and a thousand thoughts were going through her mind. The carrier bag was in her arms and she tossed it on the ground. She opened the bag and it was full of letters. She rushed through them and stuffed a handful of them in her back pocket. She stuck her head at the edge of alley way and saw

 the mystery lady with a group of Enforcers. 

She was ordering them to look around the alley ways. Alora had never seen fear on any of the faces of the Imperial Enforcers but she saw how they flinched whenever she spoke. 

Alora grabbed Kai's arm and picked him off the ground. She draped his arm over her shoulders. 

"The mission is too important. Let me be. Find the others." 

"Can't let that happen." 

She dragged him all the way through the alley way. They looked to their right and saw the Imperial Enforcers searching the perimeter. Alora turned to her left and saw a pathway leading to the food market. 

She dragged Kai through the pathway that led to the market. The pathway was surrounded by the many glamourous homes of the central district. Alora heard a ruckus from the rooftops but kept on moving. People were staring at them as they went about their business. 

They had reached the food market and the sea of aromas flooded their noses. There was food as far as the eye could see. They walked through the market, Kai kept on turning his head itching for the Enforcers to find them. They were no where in sight. 

They came across an older lady's food stand. She was selling all kinds of fruit. 

"I know you.", the old lady said. 

Alora stopped and Kai kept on hopping on his one good leg. 

"The bracelet.", she said, "You're the princess." 

The woman came out from the back of her stand and gave Alora a heartfelt hug. 

"I've always wanted to meet a royal. Can't wait to tell my grandson about this. I finally got to meet a royal. Me."

"We need your help.", Alora said.

"Anything for you your highness.", the lady assured her.

"We are wanted by some enforcers and a mage. We need to get away. somewhere far from here." 

"Anything for a royal." 

She led them at the back of her stand they waited for her while she went inside. Alora laid Kai down gently by the wall of the stand. She looked around the market and she could see people scampering around. 

"Bastards.", she thought to herself. 

The old lady came out and had two long red cloaks in hand and handed them to Alora and Kai. They put them on and they walked through the market.

"We were always told that the Princess died alongside everyone else in the raid but look at here.", the lady said, "I guess that was just another lie from the Vallath. But I always knew."  

Kai's wound had a burning itch. He held onto it ever so tightly. 

"My grandson always bought into that Vallath propaganda crap.", the lady said "I know the monarchy had its flaws but I would take them any day over the Vallath."  

Kai looked back and saw the Imperial Enforcers harrassing merchants. The enforcers saw Kai and started running. Alora started to move quickly. 

"You will just get us both caught.", Kai said. 

"I thought we already went over this.", Alora said, "I'm not leaving you."

The Enforcers were only a matter of moments away from catching them. They reached a crossroad and went left. A red mist flooded the ground beneath their feet and the mysterious lady emerged from the mist. 

They tried to turn back but they were surrounded by Imperial Enforcers. They had their firearms pointed at their heads.

"They haven't done anything wrong.", The old lady said. 

"Conspiring against the Imperial Order.", the lady said, "We've been observing you Tyrants for years now and quite frankly it's time we remove the weeds. Fire at my command." 

The Enforcers locked and loaded their guns and were just itching for her command. 

"Wait!", Alora screamed, "Don't shout please. Take me as your prisoner and spare these two." 

"Your life has of no value to me.", The Lady said, "I have no use for you being alive." 

"I am Princess Alora daughter of King Erik.", she said, "I am the rightful heir to the throne of Sarania." 

The lady put up her hand and the Enforcers put down their guns. She smirked at Alora. She stretched out her hand and the red mist beneath her feet went flying at Kai. It went through his nose, his mouth, his ears and eyes. It consumed him from the inside out draining every bit of life he had. His skin began to darken, his eyes were bleeding and so was his nose and ears.

He was screaming in unbearable pain. His body levitated and every bone in his bones snapped. 

His body came crashing to the ground, Alora rushed to go check on him. He was nothing but a decade old corpse. His skin was shriveled and grey and was merely hanging on his bones. 

Alora got up and grabbed a firearm from one of the enforcers. They all locked their weapons at her. They all screamed her ordering her to put the weapon down.

"I said stand down.", the lady said. 

They all put their firearms down. Alora was angry, her vein at the side of her forehead was about to burst. Her eyes lit up in a rage. She pointed the gun at the lady. 

"We had a deal!", she screamed, " And now he's dead." 

She fired the gun and the lady waved her hand at the bullet and it went flying in the air. Alora shot rapidly and all the shots she fired went flying in the sky. 

Alora dropped the gun, she clutched her fist and went charging it her. She threw a punch and the lady lifted her using the red mist.

 She wrapped it around her body and held it tightly on her neck. Alora was fading and fading quickly. Her skin was nearly purple and her eyes were reddening. She was fighting for every breath she could get. She stopped fighting and just laid in the hands of the mist.

She passed out and the lady brought her down gently. She was out. The lady called for an enforcer. 

"Arrest her.", she said. 

"What do we do about the old lady?", the enforcer asked. 

"Let her go." 

"Understood."

The old lady went running away and the enforcers carried Alora's unconscious body out of the market.

 The lady stood over Kai's corpse and heard flies swarming around it. She placed her hands on his chest for a few seconds and stood in silence. She got up and conjured a portal and walked right through.