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"did i say it was her job to command life, no, did i say it was her job to provide health, also no, i merely said that without death those things would be null and void. I do not forget the roles of the spirits i have thought on them and explored their meaning all my life and i know more about them then you'll ever hope to." Dunya grinned when Lrak aimed his sword at him. "I do not wish these people to stay opressed quite the opposit but there are better ways than violance and stupidity, try logic and reason i find they work better." he looked around again only this time withou moveing his head only his eyes he scanned the walls and noticed small vines sprouting from crakes in the stone. "put that knife of yours away old fool it will only bring trouble."

Kristin shrugged, turning the wrench in frustration as the bolt refused to tighten. Cursing under her breath, she finally forced one more turn, and looked back at it in satisfaction. “Damn bolt,” she muttered again. Kristin’s eyes glanced at the water heater, positive that it wouldn’t be giving the family anymore trouble. As she dematerialized the wrench, she became increasingly aware of the haggard breathing nearby.

“Hello?”

Dunya sighed softly in defeat he had said all he could it was obvious that they had gone far beyond the point of reason. he reached in to a pocket and pulled out a pen and piece of parchment that had names of towns writen on it. Dunya scanned down the list, found Naret, and crossed it out. He was sure that he would not find any help here and he cursed his stupidity for comeing here in the first place. "Why in the name of all that is green and growing I ever thought to seek help in one of the Fire Spirits cities i'll never know...tch... well plagues to all of them then." still he couldnt just up and leave, not yet, he had to give who ever was running this city, or was supposed to run this city fair warning of the coming revolution. Dunya returned the parchment and pen back in the poket and ran off in search of a way out.

After a good long hour or so Dunya finaly saw light at the end of the long dark that he had been running through. He stopped at the opening so that his eyes could adust to the light. Dunya had somehow made it outside the city and infront of him lay a large green forest and further to the horizon the mountains of Humus. Dunya looked back to the sewers. "this city is lost but perhaps the people of the great Earth Spirit will listen to the warnings i bring"

Dunya started his long run through the forest dodgeing and weaving, under and over trees, low branches, roots, and bushes. he even went as far as to climb and swing from the higher thicker branches as he was trained to do so back in glorious Sero in the city Tree of Yggdrasil. He loved travleing through the forest some how he always seemed to move faster.

Silena looked up intot he woman's face. Her eyes where anxious. She hesitated for a second before griping the women's hand, afriad she would disapear.

"Please help me! I don't want to go back," Silena pleaded. Images of sleeping in dirty water, being harrassed by people on and below the streets, and fighting for scraps of rotten food came to her. Tears welled up in her eyes. "Please!" The word came this time as barely more than a whisper.

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Lrak sat his is tent, largest of any of his army, and sipped at wine. His knew followers where eating all his food supplies but he didn't mind buying more. No, not for a compatant army. Every man, woman or child that joined today was a pretrained fighting machine. That was the best part of rooting out Ignis first. You were sure to get fighters.

"Commander Lrak? The food stores are almost out and the replacements haven't gotten here yet. The new Followers are getting testy. What do you want done?"

"Pass out the Liqure Dlin! We must have fit followers if we want to spread our message successfully," Lrak smiled.

"Yes sir," Dlin bowed and Lrak sipped at his wine agian.

Selina had to widen her strides to keep up with the woman. Going through the inn scared her, she thought for a second the woman had lied and was leading her to the police but then she was hurried into a room. Before she had time to ask what a bathroom was the woman had left. With a sigh, she headed to the room the woman had pointed to. A far off memory chimed when saw the tub. She carefully walked over to it and turned a handle. She was startled by the water and jumped back. When she looked closely the water was clean, and warm! She discovered that the water drained through a whole in the bottom and quickly found something to plug it up with. Selina threw the rag of a dress she wore to the side and climbed into the water. It was heaven. She grabed the soap and sniffed it, not sure what to do. Then she noticed that some of the grime on her hand had come off and she scrubbed at her body until the soap was almost gone. The water even turned a murky color so she let it drain and more water filled the tub. She was in bliss. Then she relized that the woman would come back, so she let the tube drain and wrapped herself up in a towel. Her hair, still with knots in it, came down past her elbow, but had a nice shine to it. She sat on the bed messing with her hair as she waited.