The whole dining room was on fire, I couldn't see Sephora though, she was inside of it while I was outside. I shouted for her hoping she would hear me, but I got no response to my call for her.

I blinked and the dining was back to normal. Like it was just burned down a second ago.

"Sephora!" I still didn't get a response from her of any kind as I inched closer to the doors of the dining. I slowly entered into it and looked around.

"Sephora?" This time I said it in a more soft way instead of shouting. If I had moved even an inch more into the room I would have been severely burned by big red-ish blue balls of fire moving to the other side of the room repeatedly throwing at something. I quickly moved back a step before it any of it could touch me almost falling because if how shaky my legs have gotten due to the current occurrence although I knew it had touched the tips of my hair from the smell my hair was now omitting. I looked in the direction the fireball was going and found Sephora standing there, with a wall of ice surrounding her. At this point, she noticed, and shouted: "Elizabeth run and hide now!" I was stuck on the stop just staring at before I finally came out of my shock when she shouted at me to run again, "Go!"

I turned around and ran as fast as I could to the entrance of the house and outside of it, running towards where we came from. I knew I didn't know where I was going exactly, but if Sephora says to run then I have to run because, in the shortest time I've known her, I have never seen her show so many emotions all at once.

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My running came to a stop when I saw the first sign of civilization. There were a lot of people everywhere, it seemed to me like I was in a market square and most of all...I looked so out of place. I was covered in dirt and bruises from I and Sephora's training session, my hair looked like I hadn't washed it in days or even had my bath at all and most of all everyone here is pale-skinned, so pale I could practically see their veins and I was dark-skinned, not that dark but not too light. All of a sudden someone is dragging me with them, startling me.

"Let go of me!"

"Shhhh!" The someone was a she.

She looked deep into my eyes with her big pink orbs, "Shut up or they'll find you." She sneered at me. "Just follow me, I'm doing Sephora a favor by even talking to you, she's going to get me killed one day." She continued to drag me in the direction of the forest, the direction I just came from.

She was moving so fast I could hardly keep up but remembering what Sephora says about not trusting anyone, I tried to slow her down, but she was way stronger than I thought she was so it was of no use.

So I decided to question her, "Wait, you know Sephora?"

"Just shut up and don't let go of my hand or they'll find you." She replied oh so rudely.

She looked about my age, probably 19. She has black shiny long hair. She was wearing leather black pants and a red tank top with bracelets of all shapes, sizes, and dangling from her arm. Some looked like they were about to fall off, I don't know why they hadn't yet though. I wonder where exactly she is taking me, and if it's even in the least bit safe to be with her but since she knew Sephora in some way that I yet to find out, I am going to follow her for now, and when it the right time to try and attack her I will.

She dragged me through the crowd like she had been here so many times and even if the pattern of movement does change, she could still navigate her way through everyone and everything. Nobody seemed to notice me or even look at me no matter how out of place I was surrounded by them. I heard her sigh she said, "They can't see you but they can most definitely sense someone out of place near them, and since the place is crowded they can't exactly pinpoint where the feeling of well...you are coming from."

She dodged a wheeled cart as it was rolling in-between the crowd-pulling me with her almost making me crash into the wheel cart, she pulled me again in a different direction preventing me from crashing into it and I just about grazed the side of it before trying to meet up with her fast strides again.

"Wait, why can't they see me?"

"Cloaking spell." We were almost into the forest now.

"Oh," I said not even in the least bit surprised because of everything I had just experienced, "but they can see you?" I asked.

"No."

Now that we had entered the forest, we were practically running through it, again with me trying to keep up with her. It seemed like she was just jogging not even running, like she was slowing down for me, and then a small brown cottage that blended in with the forest appeared. She quickly dragged me towards it, opened the door, pulled me inside it, like she has been doing ever since she found me in the market square and slammed the door shut, locking it with one too many blots and keys, but then again I'm sure it's for her safety and right now mine. She mumbled something under her breath and I felt a shocking wave pass through the house.

"What was that?"

"I just put a protection spell on the house don't worry." She walked passed me and sat on the well-used couch in front of a fireplace. I followed her about to ask her questions about what was going on, but she beat me to it,

" By the way, I'm Mazi."

"Oh, okay. I'm Elizabeth." I sad to her so as to not seem rude.

"I know who you are." She looked at me again just staring at my eyes. I raised an eyebrow in question as to why she was looking at me so intensely.

"The supposedly dead daughter of the most powerful King on this planet, King of Valeria."

"Huh?" I looked at her in even further confusion.

"You know..." She said as if expecting me to understand what she was saying, "princess of the Kingdom named after this planet, the most powerful and strongest Kingdom on this planet..."

I still look at her the same way I had been before and she looked at me with widened eyes and she stuttered a laugh, "well then I guess Sephora hasn't told you the whole truth yet, we'll just have to wait for her arrival then." With that, she smiled at me in mischief and laid down on the couch and closed her eyes humming.

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