Were there spirits following this woman? Was that who she was running away from so much so that she had fallen unconscious at the end of it?
What did it an for him that the spirit was following her? Why was she running away in the first place?
'It doesn't matter right now,' Ning thought. He turned to look at the n who were running away with the woman. He would think about it later.
"If there is a spirit, we cannot be found," Matthew said. "Have you thought about that?"
"I will find a way sohow," Ning said. "Do you really want to give up such an amazing opportunity?"
The man turned to look at the woman and shook his head. "No, I guess I don't. I need my n healed."
Ning nodded. They arrived back at the ca and Ning prepared a place for her in the cart where she could sleep peacefully.
Once she was properly laid down, he began checking her for injuries. The woman wore sothing similar to what she had worn back when he saw her. Soft white trousers with an almost pajama-like dress above. She didn't even have anything to keep her safe from the wind.
'How suddenly did she have to leave?' Ning wondered. Was the person who chased her perhaps the nobleman she had kicked out of her house? Ning worried that the man was the reason she didn't even have ti to put on so proper clothes before leaving.
He sighed and shook his head before checking her for wounds. Other than a few scratches to her heel from running in her tight shoes, there was nothing else wrong with her at all.
"She's completely fine," Ning said. "She's not wounded anywhere I can see. She's not sick either. I think she's just tired from running."
He wondered if she had healed herself and that was why she wasn't wounded.
Matthew nodded. "I will go keep watch to see if soone cos," he said. The soldiers began going through the bushes to the side, pulling out thick wooden sticks they were using as weapons.
The leader himself went along with his soldiers to stay in the stakeout this ti around.
"Shara, we might need to cook so food for her. You should make preparations so we can begin cooking the mont she wakes up," Ning said.
Shara nodded and left to make preparations.
It took a while for the woman to wake up. By the ti she did, it was already late afternoon. In just 2 more hours, they would lose all sunlight.
She woke up with a slight stir before suddenly getting up with alertness. He looked around in the cart, seeing nothing but the horses.
"Finally, you're awake."
She turned around in a hurry and saw Ning sitting at the edge of the cart beside her. "You bastards!" She lunged at him imdiately, but Ning grabbed her hand and twisted her around before slamming her down on the cart, pinning her arms against her chest.
"Calm down. I'm not your enemy," Ning said, waiting for her to acknowledge it.
The woman breathed heavily for a while before she blinked for a while. "You… you're the guy I healed," she said.
"Looks like you've regained your sanity," Ning said, letting go of her. "How are you feeling? Are you still tired?"
The woman frowned as she looked outside of the cart, seeing the thick foliage of the forest. "Where am I? Where have you brought ?"
"Uhh, I don't rember what this forest is called. It's the one in the mountains. You ran this way, rember?" he said.
The woman's eyes moved around trying to rember. She looked at him sharply next. "Are you one of them?" she asked.
"You will have to explain who 'them' is before I answer," Ning said.
"The empire's army," she said.
Ning's eyes narrowed. "You were running away from an army?" he asked. "It's surprising that you managed to escape them all alone."
The woman's eyes slowly widened. "I… I didn't escape them," she said. "They are still behind ."
Ning paused for a second. "They are still following you?" he asked.
The woman nodded. "They let their spirit follow while I tire myself. They should be coming any ti now. How long was I asleep for?"
"About 5 or 6 hours," Ning said, feeling worried. "Are you sure they are empire's soldiers?"
"They are," the woman said. "They found and—"
She stopped, turning to look at Ning. "Tell who you are first. I cannot trust you else."
"Do you rember saying sothing about killing a noble?" he asked.
The woman stopped to think for a mont before nodding. "I do rember that. What of it?" she asked.
"That man was not just any noble, but an Earl in charge of an entire Batallion. I killed a high-ranking soldier of the empire," Ning said. "I hope that is enough information for now."
The woman accepted his words. Whether he was telling the truth or not was another matter entirely. For now, she had to trust in him.
"We need to leave now," she said. "This must be your cart. We need to run away or they will catch up to us at any mont now."
"Too late," a voice said from the side and the leader arrived next to the cart. He looked at the woman for a mont and then turned toward Ning. "Soldiers incoming. A group of 2 dozen or so."
The woman looked at Matthew, confused for a mont as to who he was, but the words he spoke took precedence. The soldiers were here.
"We need to run now," the woman said. "I left my horse a long distance away. Do you guys have horses?"
The leader grimaced a little. "What do we do?" he asked. "She is right about running."
"We can do that," Ning said as a mysterious look appeared on his face. "Or… we can stay behind and fight them all."
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