Alessia panted as she now slowly walked to –

No where!

Alessia groaned, and plopped down to the grass. She dropped her staff from the ground, and tried to catch up her breath.

"Living outside is harder than I thought. . " She murmured to herself. "Oh well. . what done is done."

Alessia sat up, grabbed quickly her staff and stood up. The sun was now rising – she didn't even had enough sleep.

'Are you kidding me?' She thought, her face turned furious. Their was now , a light, grey circles below her eyes. She let out a large yawn, and stretched her arms.

"I guess. . a nap won't hurt."

She lied down again to the grass, and slowly closed her eyes, and fell to sleep.

She ran.

She continued to run, and she panted. Oh boy, she did not expect this.

5 people versus one. And 4 if them were defeated. How was that even possible?

The magic user ran to south, vulnerable. The.. man? ,continued to chase her, sucking her life source. Now – her running slowly turned much slower, and the  man grinned.

The girl stumbled to the ground, struggled to get up. The man puts his staff above her back, and just laughed.

"Goodbye~."

Alessia immediately sat up, startled and afraid. She never, ever, had that dream in her whole life. Although, she had a nap. Good.

She just shrugged it off. She just tied her light blonde haired to pigtails, put on her hat, and staff – you know what? You already know, don't you?

Anyways, she continued to stroll down to the long, cobblestone path. The atmosphere was rather quiet – only the dripping of rain drops was to be heard.

It was boring. Very boring.

Alessia let out a load groan – she was impatient. Her staff click - clacked as she spotted an unusual being. This alarmed her, now – the staff color was now mocha green, and it made her anxious.

She decided to look closer. She walked to the unusual–

"Scree!" She shouted, backed away from it. That jelly like thing, had eyes, it was blue, and yes, it was unusual.

"Gross..." She muttered, and she was secretly casting a spell.

That jelly like thing - charges right through the magic user, and Alessia fell right down to the ground.

"So you want to do this the hard way. ." She angrily said. "Lighting!"

All was left – was blue dust.

Alessia wiped her sweat, and let out a proud smile.

Although, she was not really the violent type. That's not her cup of tea, anyways. She prefers to just stay in a quiet place, and keep her cool. But, she have no choice but to fight, either way.

Alessia noticed, she now had a wide, reddish scratch on her leg. She gasped, their was nothing she could do. She was not a bishop – no healing for her.

She scoffed, pissed off. She decided to ignore it, and continue to the walk-

"A-Are you okay?"

Alessia titled her head sideways, and saw a girl holding a bishop staff, but she was rather, flustered?

"Oh hello, there!" She greeted, and waved and smiled. "May I ask, what's your name?"

She suddenly bowed slowly. "H-Hello, Princess Alessia, M-My name is Eya Miller, nice to meet you." She introduced, but with stammering.

"Oh, you know me?" She asked. "I didn't you I was popular..." She mumbled. "Anyways, please don't bow."

"O-Okay." She obeyed, back to her standing place. "Are you hurt?"

Eya looked down, to Alessia's legs, in her scratch. She moved forward to her legs, and her bishop staff, let out a warm, mocha light. It slowly treated the scratch of Alessia, making it fade away.

"Does..it feel better now?" She asked gently.

"Yes, thank you." Alessia thanked her with an encouraging smile. "You are a bishop?"

Eya stood up, her legs shaky. Alessia noticed this – and it made her worry.

"Y-Yes. I am, why?"

Alessia's face turned anxious. She looked over Eya's leg who had stitches, and it made her heart ache.

"Can't you heal yourself? You have stitches all over, your..legs." Alessia said, pointed it out.

"O-Oh. That.." She slowly said, and sighed sadly. "The thing is, t-that is cursed. Whenever I try to heal it, it just make it more worse.. So.."

"That's really bad!" Alessia worried. "You need escort to your home?"

"A-Ah! No need!" Eya articulated, declined. "I'm..just using this, to help other people."

Alessia paused herself for a moment.

If she ever listened to her parents just to stay at the castle, would she be here by now?

Is she even strong?

What, how, why?

"Princess?"

Alessia snapped back to reality, and saw Eya's concerned face. She just chuckled lightly.

"I'm fine, just zoned out a bit." Alessia lied. "So..where are you headed next?"

"The..thing is.." Eya said, looked down to her feet. "I..really..want to stay with you. I feel really comfortable when I see you.. Even tho when  we just met, I heard rumors about you. B-But g-good ones, of course!" She explained.

"Ohh." Alessia said, her lips formed to an 'o' shape. "Very well then.."

The two ladies, walked down to the road. They had no conservation's, except. .

"So...Princess, you shouldn't be out here, there is a war, g-going on." Eya started. "You should be in the castle."

Alessia frozed. Eya stood beside her.

"I-Is their something wrong, Princess?"

"Well.." Alessia started. "The thing is, the knights of the other country made it to the castle, and..Mother and Father told me, to go and run. And I did. Here I am." She elaborated, in a flat tone.

"Oh..I'm..sorry to hear about that, Princes –"

"Please don't call me Princess, " Alessia commanded, cut her off.

"O-Okay, Alessia." Eya finally said.

"So..what will you do now?" Eya interrogated again, full of curiosity. Alessia giggled, but just gave her a sweet smile.

"Well, so far, I've been planning to fight one-on-one with the king," She explained.  "Although, I'm pretty much, still weak."

Eya put her hand in her chin, and thought of a solution.

"W-What if I help you?" She offered. "I-I can heal, and stuff."

"Really – ! I mean, really?"

Eya nodded, gave her a warm smile. Alessia's face lit up to happiness. Someone will help her.

"Very well then, let's continue, shall we?"