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The sun barely started to touch the horizon when the long, lonely shadow stopped, quietly moving towards a tree to her left, when Lilith’s shadow mixed with the tree’s the sensation of pain slowly started to spread on her left leg, continuously moving to her knee as she breathed. The air was light and cold, a breeze moving to the West lasted a few seconds, bringing the salty smell from the eastern sea. The pain diminished as Lilith closed her eyes, trying to focus herself on the woods; a bird landed on a tree a few meters away from her, a couple small animals, possibly squirrels, hid on a tree, the woods were growing quieter than usual, as if something agressive moved between the shadows, a long chill crossed her back when she heard it. The sound of a dry, small tree branch breaking due to weight and the heavy caracteristic breathing; knowing what she would see, Lilith opened her eyes after moving her face to the South. Five meters away, on a small clearance, the black wolf faced the sky with his eyes closed, smelling the air, his abdomen contracted when Lilith started to analise the animal, the wolf had an average size, being smaller than her only by a few inches, the tail aggressively moved on the ground. His abdomen contracted again, although the wolf had a strong appearance, it apparently did not ate in days. As Lilith's right hand moved inside the cape, meeting the second sword's grip, the wolf's left ear moved, his eyes opened quickly, demonstrating an animalistic expression of excitement. He promptly ran to the South, hastily fading between the trees.

Lilith waited several minutes before releasing the sword's grip, being sure than the wolf wouldn't return, she started moving again to East as she felt again the cold, salty breeze from the sea. A few animal dared to look the outside from their hideouts, only to meet an almost endless shadow calmly walking, an illusion created by the black cape, the angle of the sun and the many umbras from the trees. Every two dozens steps the woods started to fade a bit, half an hour passed, the sun was about to disappear on the West, when the eastern sea and the city of Vestern appeared. Lilith smiled and started to walk slowly, eventually joining the road than leaded to the city, the pain on her leg was nothing but an ignored memory now, lost among the thoughts about the city she last saw when she was nothing but a kid. While she travelled to Vestern, Lilith asked many merchants and farmers about the city, and apparently, they were right. The presence of the Union military increased as she moved to the inner city, Lilith calmly walked between the people, being ignored or unnoticed by most of them. As she reached the very center from the inner city, she found the bar than her father used to go when he was alive, she removed the hood a few moments before entering the bar.

Many people were in the bar, many strangers talking to strangers about their strange lifes, there were four rectangular wooden tables close to the four windows, a few circular tables were located between the rectangular ones and the wooden balcony, and there was the balcony itself, the barman, being the only human behind it, frequently gave drinks to the customers, quietly writing how many they already have drank on his notebook. A few wooden chairs were in front of the balcony, one of these gently disappeared inside Lilith's black cape when she there sat. A burst of laugh from a drunken man could be heard on one of the circular table less than two meters away from Lilith.

"Look at'hat Jo! A w'man on te pub! Let's enjoy te night a bit, shall we?"