o the

t watched her uncle kill her father. Her father, Siji Khan, had entru

the princess safe, and now the task of getting the pr

, it was going to be a miracle if she managed

had been badly injured. A silverine bullet from the red assassins had lodge

heart raced, they were fatal, beads of swea

he turned her focus to his wounds. They were hea

king glass shattered t

m down the hallway, signaling tha

their eyes sting, everything was starting to

a minute or two, before they find us," she wh

the window above them. The kind of silverine bul

d into the thick glass wall

hild and ducked instinctive

ir heads with her arms as pieces o

into the upturned mahogany table opposite them, shattering it int

utside had

gh one of the shattered windows, hit the

ace in her chest. She didn't get a chance to hear wha

rible noise, the noise from her kind as th

o the last layer of the castle wall and were

she managed to transform into half wolf form to reduce any scalds from

one of the scattered windows, using i

princess had managed to

nd pushed the old guard behind her, using her left han

ugh, but fighting while protecting

oud noise rushed ag

them, running towards were they hid, their

overrun and wiped from

of her kind who had been caught in the bloody slaughter. They had no cha

ng him down from her shoulders. In a swift motion, she carried

closest hallway, filled with da

the hallway the smoke was already thicker, making her cough as she raced

s and ceiling ahead of them, blocking their exit. Turning again, she ran blin

ding footsteps closing in on them,

of light, running towards the shadowed passageway and tearing the men who stoo

nd raced down another corridor, avoiding the attention of the assassins

p her sight and her breath

o clear slightly. She could just make out the

for it. But she

lled into the corridor be

lets smashed into the d

rled an

tearing them to shreds. Their screams rang through the dark passageway. She looked to her right and, sli

ry few seconds to shred down the a

he flames moved wildly against the wi

guard and the baby princess, placing them on he

, her heart slammed as she race

legion of assassins wer

the corner on the stairs and came to a s

he hit the metal gate, she

s before running into the cage,

gain, but the g

spered to her,

et to the next floor a

o go. They're right behi

whispered

em off for as

"I'll be back