Elywen staggered foreword as Victor slid off her back, all the energy
she had put forth suddenly becoming useless. She glanced back, frightful
that she had perhaps dropped Victor somehow, but the man's voice spoke
instead, ""I...I'm ok. Thank you, miss. I can run...let's get out of
here." His voice released a flood of relief through Elywen. He was still
alive at the very least, but the blood that flowed freely down his
chest still wrought worry on the musician's face.
She had no time to express her concern. Gunfire and helicopter
blades filled the air, the wind picking up to a howl within the narrow
alleyways. Elywen's face turned upward, seeing another copter fly
overhead, slowing and preparing to land. They really were out of time.
"Okay okay! Let's save the sappy hugs for later!" En's voice blared in
her ear as the boy pushed them foreword. "Please tell me you have
another place to go to!"
Elywen broke into an unsteady run, her mind slightly shaken up by
the sounds of bullets zipping past. "Right, right, just give me a
sec..." Her eyes darted at the concrete walls that flew by as they
emerged into the market place again. She came to a stop, frantically
searching her memory for another place to hide, any place that didn't
put them out in the open. Her head whipped down another alleyway.
"Right! I know, follow me!" She broke into another dash down another
alleyway, this one cluttered with the market place's trash: molding bags
of garbage, broken closets with warped and brittle wood, old food
stalls. It was a mine filled with hiding places, but Elywen quickly
maneuvered around the trash, her mind set upon a destination further
ahead.
Several more agents descended from the sky from up above, landing in
the vacated alleyway. The only took a brief moment to assess the
situation. One officer down, dead, pathetically killed by a rather large
piece of brick. His partner emerged from behind the wooden stall,
filled with bullet holes. The man was flustered from beneath his helmet,
but his words shone none of it, as he was trained to do. They spent
only a few moments in conversation and then broke into separate groups
of two, splitting to search the area.
Elywen's eyes fell upon a large, looming mansion, no more of a
church. It was abandoned like much of the other buildings around the
market, weeds and ivy growing tall in the patches of dirt that
surrounded the building's walls. Huge stained-glass windows were broken,
many in need of serious repair and others simply in too damaged to be
fixed. Elywen darted up the front doors, her hands falling upon the
enormous planks of wood that barricaded the entrance. "What the hell?!
Dammit..." She glanced around briefly and glanced back at the two males
behind her. "The back..." She didn't waste another breath to clarify her
words, trusting the two to understand her. She broke again into another
sprint, this time darting around the building.