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It happened quickly. One moment she was hauling the soldiers, focusing on their weight and her feet beneath her and trying to think of nothing but moving forward, leaving this awful night behind one step at a time. Then the wind breathed over her skin, and her animal mind flooded with panic. The...

Kari blinked at his self deprecation. Boring. He'd said that twice, but why? Not a single boring thing had happened in the last hour, and there was not a single person in the entire universe that could argue otherwise. And yet. Maybe in daylight he was the kind of person who mended socks for...

Kari puffed out a little laugh and muttered, "Right, of course they do." For a moment, she thought he was going to ignore the second half of her question, but when he actually answered her, she turned her face up to look at him curiously. "It's not a boring name," she said without really...

For a moment, she just gaped at him. The street urchin part of her brain was still tingling with suspicion, unable to reconcile his staunch secrecy and suspicious behavior with his apparent helpfulness. The little voice in the back of her head said: he's probably going to shank you, or run, or...

"Just so we're clear," she said seriously, "I wasn't the one who attacked your friend." She frowned, then shook her head, resisting the urge to apologize, or try to explain. "Are you okay to walk?" She'd noticed him rubbing at his chafed wrists, and though she hadn't left him tied up for very...

His sudden seriousness brushed away the edges of her exhausted hysteria, and she quickly sobered. "I did a little more than patch him, but he lost a lot of blood before I got to him." She hesitated for a moment, then leaned over and started undoing the buckle on the belt, freeing the soldier's...

Kari blinked at him, then burst out laughing - her exhaustion and the awfulness of the situation and this guy's stubborn nonchalance all colliding and exploding into uncontrollable giggles. She clapped one hand over her mouth, clutching the other against her stomach, but it took her a minute to...

Kari stared down at him for a long moment, then sighed and sat down in the grass in front of him, resting her arms on her knees and leaning forward so he wouldn't have to crane his neck up to look at her. "Honestly, I don't know if it's important or not, and that's the problem. You could just be...

Kari laid the soldier down gently in the grass, then hooked her thumb under the strap of the pouch, lifting it up off her shoulder so the man on the ground could see it. "Are you going to explain? Because I would really, really like to get some sleep before the sun comes up, and I can't imagine...

Kari stopped in front of the soldier she'd knocked out and looked down at him. Suddenly, he looked very, terribly heavy. She ran her hand back through her hair and sighed, wishing she had some way to tie the guy up. She should have stolen Yue's belt before she started patching him up, but she...

Damn, he was fast. She'd been impressed when she'd seen him breezing past Faeran, keeping just out of his brother's reach. But now she realized that had been a game; he'd disappeared from right in front of her faster than she could blink away the blast of wind and debris. At the very least, that...

Kari sighed, letting Yue bat her hand away and settling back on her knees in the grass behind him. "I can make it stop hurting, but not if you won't let me." She crossed her arms over her chest, watching him squirm and clutch his head. She'd really clocked him good, apparently, and despite...

Kari's eyes snapped open when Yue grabbed onto her hand, her concentration faltering for a moment. When he rolled onto his side, though, so obviously in pain, she followed after him, keeping close and pouring more of her light into the lingering shadow of his injury, trying to chase away as much...

For a long moment, Kari simply crouched down in the grass, staring at the little doll. The questions floating through her head piled on top of one another - all of them pressing, all of them unanswerable - until it was like listening to the ambient sound of a tavern late at night. What was this...

Always the hard way. Obviously the three men wanted nothing to do with whatever object they'd been carrying, and obviously they were under orders not to disclose the nature of their mission, whatever it was. Unfortunately for all of them, Yue had picked that night to be a brat, and Kari had no...

When the man she was dragging turned into a placid sack of potatoes in her arms, Kari realized she wasn't going to get anything out of him, either. At least he wasn't fighting. It wouldn't be too difficult to subdue him, but damn, she hated doing things the hard way. And she'd only been wearing...

((She's so done. She just wants to go back to bed.)) Kari stared down at the man beneath her, who was, evidently, just waiting to be tortured rather than simply supplying the information she'd requested. She could feel the headache starting to form behind her left eye. "Gods, I hate this...

Kari ground her teeth. She'd offered them the easy way, but apparently they wanted to do it the hard way. Well, fine. Hard way it was. She jogged after the soldiers, not having to push herself too much, burdened as they were with their injured friend. As soon as she was close enough, Kari gave...

"You two! Get him on his back, then sit down and stay out of my way!" She put all the authority she could muster into her words, making them an order rather than a request, the dropped down to her knees and slid through the dewy grass, coming to a halt at the fallen man's side. She swore under...

At first, Yue looked ridiculous drawing his invisible bow. But as the wind started to gather around them, Kari knew it wasn't just for show. As the air started to solidify into a physical form, she realized this was the first time she'd ever really seen another magician cast. Yue's intense focus...