18 First Meeting!

Lance walked out cursing the Duke non-stop. "Damn! How can he possibly look for women while we're in the middle of this!" And bit his thumb as if he was trying to chew the Duke.

Lance looked at the piece of paper that the found in the abandoned cellar. He causally burned it up and smirked in melancholy, "They aren't satisfied yet? Until when will they stop there conquest? When the world splits in half?" His eyes were clouded.

Travis heard all this but didn't say anything. He put his hand on Lance's shoulder and gave a small pat before walking away. Leaving Lance alone in the hall.

"Sarah, what should I do? Why can't they just leave us alone?" He helplessly said as he looked at the sky through the window in hall.

Lance just stared at the sky. As if looking at the sky would make him find his answers. But all he could see was blue and clouds moving. He his eyes held sorrow he remembered some memories, before returning back to his original calm self.

Yet at the end of the day... he still cannot bring her back.

- - - - -

Time was doing its job and soon morning became evening and many were out having fun in the streets.

Since the Masked Circus was in town, it became lively. Many street stalls were put out with food and accessory's for people to see. The Masked Circus had already begun parading through the Main Street.

But in this huge crowd we have Angelica running after a man who stole her pouch.

"WHY THE HELL DON'T YOU STOP RUNNING?!" She yelled as she chased after the man.

But her words fell deaf on his ears as he continued to make his way through the crowd without stopping. He finally saw his chance to slip away, if he take a turn past that man then he would soon get lost in the alley and there was no way she would chase after him.

He thought his plan was prefect and he held onto the purse tighter. He had seen this woman pull out a gold coins in the morning and then pull out more when she came out to the plaza.

This pouch must be a gold mine!! He couldn't help bu lick his lips when he thought about her wealth and greed filled his eyes right away.

"YOU JERK! STOP RUNNING!!" She yelled once again.

He looked back at the silver hair woman and kissed his teeth. Seriously this woman is persistent! How come she so fast? Why does it look like she become faster? He panicked and faced forward in full speed!

He came close to man near the alley and slipped just around him. But just as he took two steps forward he felt a kick in right side slamming him against the wall.

Angelica had jumped into the air and 'borrowed' the hooded mans shoulder and threw a kick to the thief who took her stuff. Before landing on the ground gracefully. She brushed the dust off her clothes before walking to the thief and to take her stuff back. He was out and unconscious.

"Honestly, people driven by greed and lust are disgusting!" forgetting the stunned men behind her.

"Your lucky I held back my kick or I would have killed you without any mercy." Just as she said that she felt something pressing against he neck.

Looking down she saw a blade already at her neck, ready to cut her flesh when needed.

From the corner of her eye she saw two hooded men. One holding a blade near her neck and the other leaning against the wall studying her even though his eyes were hidden.

She even saw a small smile on the man's lips as he looked at her.

She could already see this man wasn't so simple.

- Let's go back 2 hours -

Angelica had woken up along side Helix. After coming here all she remembered was booking this room and resting since her whole body hurt.

She had woken up to Helix's poking on her face. She looked at him and noticed that her arm bandaging had become loose and her arms started bleeding once again. Her face had become pale once against due to the blood loss.

How careless of her.

Angelica looked at her wound without much thought. She got up and rummage through her pouch and took out a elixir and drank it. Finally the bleeding stopped once again and it was okay to move around now.

This was such a troublesome poison, and she was glad that it was possible to suppress or else she would be a bleeding mess. She took off the old bandage and looked at her wound. It was a deep cut on her shoulder and she couldn't carry anything heavy because of it. What annoys her the most would be the unstoppable bleeding.

She had been feeling tired more and more often and this bleeding wasn't helping at all. The wound would just seep with more and more blood. The potion was only a temporary solution but if she can't heal up properly then it gonna be trouble.

Now that's she awake she might as well clean up before heading back in town to look for her next thing. And of possible look for some rare herbs on stock.

With that in mind she washed up and dressed up her wound before wearing her clothes. She wore a long sleeve dark-green dress lined with golden designs at the bottom. The dress had her signature two legs slits but everything else was covered and wore similar green flats with it. She braid her her to one side of her shoulder. Looking at the mirror she felt satisfied with her looks.

"well ain't you looking nice, me!" She spoke to the mirror.

Helix just looked at her and his ears twitched from her remark. Master, how can someone be so shameless while looking at the mirror?

Angelica looked at the pup staring at her with weird eyes, "aww, Helix don't look at me like that."