Devil Town // RP

Lyn

Ni seemed to hesitate for a bit before offering her money to pay for the escape, implying she didn't need to know the answer to her question. While tempting, the mystery was a lot more interesting to her at present, and besides, they were hardly safe or out of trouble yet.

Once she had caught her breath, Lyn got up grabbing Ni by the arm, and began to lead her away. 'Well you're not safe yet, they could still send a search party out for us. It wouldn't be right to take your money if im not going to get you out of their reach first.'

As they walked Lyn looked down at her stained shirt, pressing a finger to it. As she pulled it away, the blood was drawn out of her clothing, floating in the air beside them. Once satisfied that all of the blood was out, she let the blood fall to the floor behind them. She looked back to Ni and looked her up and down again. It was hard to make much out about her from under the cloak. The longer NI kept her in the dark the more she wondered whether getting involved in this was the right call. In any case, it would be a long time before she could show her face in Stagmoor for some time.

Her outburst at being touched was the most assertive Ni had been since they had met and it caught Lyn off guard for a moment. Her hand hung in the air for a few seconds where she had been holding Ni before she slowly let it fall to her side.

'Okay, no touching.' The girl stepped carefully through the woods in her bare feet, careful to not hurt them unnecessarily. In her head she was starting to piece things together. Ni had left in a rush and hadn't had time to get her shoes. The guards who were chasing her originally had also been from the palace, not regular city guard. It was likely she lived in one of the upper districts, close to the palace. Lyn would need to know more to figure out why she was leaving.

'I'd make you some shoes if that were something I could do, but magic doesn't really work like that.' Lyn bent over and dug through her pack for a moment, and stood up with a sheet of leather. She held it out in front of her, eyeing it against the size of Ni's feet. Once she was satisfied she had the measurements down, she dropped the leather down and began waving her finger through the air over it.

Strips of thin leather peeled itself from the edges of the sheet, while two sole shaped pieces fell out, keeping as much of the material usable as possible. With another little finger wag, the pieces assembled themselves into crude sandals, with straps over the toes and around the ankles. Not her best work but it would do for now.

'These will keep your feet from being torn up until we can get you something better,' she said, motioning for Ni to put them on. She waited for her, then started to walk away from the city in the direction she had planned to before she had awoken this morning. 'I have business in the next town that can't wait, so we will head there for now. Then we can figure out where you need to go,' she said, now looking over at Ni, her head still covered by the hood. 'Don't worry though, I have a plan,' she said with a flash of a smile before she continued walking.

Lyn

'Yes, Avalar. I have a friend who asked me to meet him there.' She had done enough favours for Orun that he would keep quiet about Ni, but it was a small town and word got around. Two strangers showing up would cause suspicion.

She started to consider the idea of them wrapping around the town and approaching from the other side while she walked. Disguises would be needed too since she had been seen and they were looking for Ni. Either way, it would be two days on foot to Avalar, and they would need to rest for the night at some point.

Ni seemed eager to part ways. Lyn didn't say anything, but just gave a absentminded nod of acknowledgement. There was more to this girl and she wanted to know what. For the next few hours she led on through the wilderness, while thinking of theories of why this girl had to flee.


'It's getting too dark to keep going, it would be best if we got some sleep and continued in the morning,' she said, dropping her bag down in a small clearing she had found.

Lyn had to hold in her laughter when Ni began talking. An Inn was out of the question. It would be the first place on the road the guards would really look for them. Much safer to hide out in the woods for now at least. She had led them deep into the woods, far enough from any roads for smoke or fire to be seen, so long as the fire was kept small.

'No inn's nearby I'm afraid, tomorrow we will make it into town and have beds to sleep in though. And we do have food if you're hungry. She knelt down with her pack and rummaged through it, pulling out a loaf of bread she had purchased the other day, along with two blankets and a larger sheet which laid itself out on the floor with a snap of her fingers.

She broke the bread in half, offering the rest to Ni. She left her half on her blanket while she collected enough food for a fire, igniting it with a bolt of flame from her finger. She sat back down on the sheet she had laid out and began to pick at her bread. She was silent for a few minutes, debating how best to bring up all the questions she wanted to answered. In the end she decided just to come out and ask.

'Why are they chasing you? What did you do?'

Lyn

Ni's attitude and response to being told where they would be sleeping and what they'd be eating helped her narrow things down. She got the spoiled rich girl vibe from her a lot. She had good manners too, seeing as how she apologised unprompted for her outburst. She'd probably never had want for anything so this all must be a big shock to her. Either she was stupid and naive about how the world worked, or she knew full well, and was running from something worse.

Her question had startled Ni as she picked at the bread. She put out a warning but Lyn didn't even respond. She was too invested in this now and needed answers. When she got like this there was no dissuading her, or giving up.

When she took off her hood all Lyn could think was, 'well fuck'. She was royal. The puzzle pieces started to click in head and things began to make sense. Then Ni; or Nila now, gave her full name, and flipped it all again. Not much was known about the princess other than she was fiercely protected and led a very sheltered life out of the public eye. About a million questions raced through Lyn's head, but she managed to focus in on just one.

How the fuck was she going to get herself out of this mess? She needed to get out of the country. Well, she had needed to before but more in a 'oh, give it a few years and they'll forget about me haha, I have a thousand years, I can afford to avoid this one town for 2 or 3 and they won't even remember me there anymore.' This was more of an 'Oh shit, I'm going to be hunted to the ends of the earth for them to get their princess back, and nowhere is safe because if anyone figures out who Nila is and what we did, they'd start hunting them too.'  

She fumbled for her box and pulled free her last blue cigarette, lighting it up and taking a long drag. Things were going to get messy now. So what to do about Ni? It would be best for her to ditch the girl. She'd make it out no problem on her own, the girl would be returned home on a few days if she didn't get herself killed and maybe there was a chance this could all just blow over. On the other hand, the girl was a princess who wanted to run away from home. Lyn was hardly royalty, but she thought she could relate just a little to that. But was Ni serious about this? Did she really want to get away and live a normal life, or was this just some little rebellion and she'd want to be home by the end of the week?

It had been a few minutes now since NI had dropped the bombshell on her. Taking one last hit before snuffing out the blue stick, she stared into Nila's eyes. 'Listen to me very carefully. I have one question and I need an honest answer from you. If you tell the truth and I like what you have to say, I will help you. If you lie, or if I don't like the answer, I'll take you to the main road in the morning, and we will go our separate ways.' She kept eye contact for a few more seconds, making sure Nila understood her before asking, 'Why did you run away?'