☾Kil just stared blankly at the stranger as she stepped back. When she leapt off the balcony, Kil cried out and lunged forward, afraid that she’d hurt herself, however she seemed to have landed without trouble and disappeared. That was honestly quite impressive, if not a little alarming, but Kil thought nothing of it. In fact, after a few minutes she wasn’t certain it had even happened as there was no evidence of it and the whole thing seemed rather absurd.☽
☾She thought nothing of it until later that day when she heard the commotion of an attack. The fight had broken out so suddenly, the cries of guards and children alike erupting. Kil stood from her chair so suddenly it toppled over, spilling ink all over her desk as she knocked over a bottle but she hardly cared about that in the moment.☽
☾First she went running out of her office and spoke loudly over the din of children yelling and the general panic.☽
“Everyone stay calm! Get to the lower levels where Fatima is, he’ll know what to do!”
☾At least she hoped that absolute disaster of a human being remembered the instructions he’d been given in case they were ever attacked. The children were to all line up against the walls down in the basement, which would be blocked off. Unbeknownst to Fatima and the children, this would be used as a distraction so Maader could make her escape whilst the intruders were trying to get into the basement to find her.☽
☾She immediately began to look for Maader then. She found her coming out of her room just then, armed with a long knife she often kept with her.☽
“Lady Maader, we’re under attack we have to get you out of here!”
☾For once her mistress was cooperative, so Kil took her by the hand and the both of them went running to a window on the ground floor at the side of the building. Kil just barely managed to break the thing open without breaking the glass and stepped outside, but before she could help Maader out she turned and swallowed; she was surrounded by their enemies.☽
“What do you fiends want from us?”
☾She was hoping to stall time for Maader to make an escape, but Maader was just standing there, hiding just behind the wall to listen.☽
Almost immediately after Katza had launched herself out of the window and out into the courtyard, she wasted no time in quickly returning to the group. Panting softly and looking slightly distressed, but managed to calm down with a quick pat on the back by her teacher.
They’d managed to stay hidden until the time was right for them to attack, dropping down in through a window they broke. Taking their opponents by surprise, sending the entire place into chaos while yelling in their own language, drawing the attention of the member’s they came to rescue.
They’re rescues we’re thankfully minimal, with it only being two people. A scribe and a healer magician, both of which took the opportunity to split off from the group following Fatima and run towards their native languages yelling, ignoring the head slave.
Both of them knew what that yelling meant, it meant that Katza and company we’re there to save them, it was Granian tradition after all. Tradition that if you’re clans men were kidnapped or taken as slaves to go and retrieve them.
It was part of their plan to ambush the head of the whole company, take them down by their roots. Knowing that to reach them their comrades would have to get past her, the women who owned this hellhouse. So they’d corner her and demand she give them their friends back.
So when the group had them surrounded, Katza included, the unofficial head of the group and Katza’s teacher, Emelrich, that spoke up.
“We wan’t our companions back, we aren’t afraid to use force” his voice was heavy and deep, with a sense of power behind it. He had a voice that demanded respect, obedience, he was a man who didn’t stand misbehavior, despite the thick accent.
Katza’s hands were wrapped tightly around her bow, ready to fire at his command. She respected her teacher, not out of fear, but because he showed himself to be someone to be respected. He was rough around the edges, but he was a good man, although he’d never admit it.
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