After what seemed like an eternity, Anya finally found herself in Rugner. A home to one of the many Guardian temples that dot the human lands. It was one of her goals in life to visit them all and honor The Guardian. The village was so small, she could see the temple from where she stood.
As she moved toward the building, Anya could feel an immense tension filling the air. A dense cloud that hung silently over the village. Something was amiss. While the suffocating unease bothered her, she was here for one reason. The temple. It wasn't long before she reached the entrance and a tingle of excitement crawled up her spine. She took a deep breath and walked in. Her joy was short lived as she saw a few human children gathered around the Guardian's likeness. It took a moment for her to realize just what they were doing.
"Hey! Y'all kids stop thad righ' now!" Anya shouted at them. They were using paint of some sort to draw crude images on the murals around the building. Luckily, she had stopped them before they desecrated the Guardian.
At the sound of her voice, they dropped what they were doing and turned around. For a moment, they were silent, and then they started to laugh.
"Who is going to make us?"
"You talk funny!"
Another of their little group thought it would have been funny to throw a pail of paint at her face. With ease she knocked the bucket away but not before a decent amount splattered on her legs and boots. Anya didn't bother to mask the anger on her face. Without missing a step, she walked over to the boy who tossed the can and slapped him across the face. Then she drew the blade she carried on her hip, a thin, sharpened piece of bone.
"These were ma favorid riders!" Anya saw nothing but red as she drew the knife down his cheek, light enough to not cause a serious wound, but to make it hurt for a few days.
She forced him out the door and shut away the rest of the world. The other children had fled long before. Anya spun on her now blue spotted boots and walked back to the alter, knelt, and prayed to the Guardian.