Snippet #925186

Adriane stumbled down the street. The panic and her small shape had caused most people to overlook her and the blood loss was beginning to get to her. She felt her conscious drifting away from her but she always forced it back. Suddenly her leg gave out and fell down into the street. She struggled and struggles until finally she was able to get back onto her feet. Her head swam for a second and vision blurred but she had to keep going, had to find somebody. She took a few more wobbly steps and paused when an older man in tattered clothing caught her before she fell. He had said something but she was so far gone that most of it went over her head. "Let me take you back to the palace, I'm sure they have grea-..."
"NO" she screamed out. She would not go back there, she would not be a puppet for them.
"Okay... Okay... Just lemme carry you then, maybe we can find you someone who isn't from the palace..."
The man smiled at her and reached out with a steel hand and tried to smile at her. She looked at his hand and her eyes brightened slightly. She studied it for a second as the man picked her up to carry it. "That hand....... I can fix it." She whispered, it was hard to talk but if this man was going to help her then she must return some sort of service as well. Her eyes were blurring again but she fought off the blackness. She will not allow herself to fall unconscious, not until she knew she was away. She turned her head to the Palace and Temple, the fires were still burning but there was more smoke. A good portion of the complex was a light but it was getting under control. Tears started streaming down her face. This was all her fault, she was away but what was the cost. How many........how many had she killed....how many families would learn that a father, a mother, a child, would not be returning. She started crying and put her hands to her face and turned into the man carrying her. "no, no ,no it's all my fault. my fault, I'm sorry, I'm sorry I'm sorry." she said softly, her voice broken from inhaling the smoke and her tears.