Snippet #1209502

He realized as he did it, that knocking out the soldier crawling across the floor could be seen as cruel, but he didn’t know what was wrong with him, and he didn’t want him getting any blood on Starlit. Who knew if it contagious? It was best to just knock him out and leave him for his own people to clean up.

He didn’t even use one of his own weapons.

After he helped her to her feet, she quickly winced in pain and he noticed the limp before she had a chance to hide it.

“Twisted your ankle?”

She looked up with a fake smile, “No, of course not. My leg just fell asleep.”

He looked at her for only a second before smiling and saying, “Okay, well, lets hurry, we’re short on time,” and took her by the hand, not taking the chance of losing her again, and started off down the hall at a jog.”

She kept up for maybe five seconds before she yelped and fell.

Wolf spun her around by the arm and caught her before she hit the ground, “You twisted your ankle.”

She looked at the floor sheepishly before mumbling a “yes”.

“Right. Well, we need to be out of here five minutes ago, so up you get,” and easily pulled the girl onto his back.

“This is so embarrassing,” she mumbled as she wrapped her arms around his neck.

“Don’t worry about it. Not everybody handles this sort of thing well.”

He took off easily, her weight having no noticeable effect on his pace, and made it back to the door with, unnervingly, no resistance. At all.

He slowed down quickly when he reached the exit, being as quiet as he could,
“I'm not your enemy. I'm simply looking for answers. On my way here I saw some patrols headed this way so you might want to escape, but before you go I'd like to know what you're fighting for.”

He stepped out into the mans line of sight, “Thanks for the tip, friend. We’re kind of in a rush though, so for right now ‘survival’ will have to do.” He turned to Alex, “Hurry, lead on.”

He cast one last glance over his shoulder at the man in the black armor as they ran off. This whole thing was starting to smell really bad, especially that guy, but there was something nagging at the back of his mind, but he just couldn’t figure out what.