Luka looked at the girl defiantly as she questioned what was going on, however suddenly began pushing him into the back room, saying shed hide him if he left afterwards, which caught him a lot off guard. Clearly this girl was a strange one. But he knew there was no way he’d be sticking around to offer an explanation. It would just get both of them in more trouble. As he finally came to rest in the back room, Luka sank to the ground, clutching at his stomach, pain radiating under the pressure. It was dark in here, and it smelt of dust, which agitated his nose.

He peeled back his hand for a moment, inspecting the red blood staining his shirt from a rather nasty stab wound he’d received a day or so ago that he hadn’t had time to rest or heal. Blood on his hand that he had left smeared on the girl’s sleeve from where he’d grabbed her… he heard sudden crashes from the other room, the girl protesting angrily. [i]Yep. Strange one that one.[/i]

Even as she claimed ignorance to the boy’s whereabouts the guard looked at her suspiciously, his eyes falling to the blood mark on her sleeve. “Really?” He questioned suspiciously. “You two!” He barked quickly. “Watch the girl and the door whilst I search the back!” His eyes turned to glare at her, a silent warning to stay put. If she had appeared afraid he might have suspected she had been forced into this, but if anything she just seemed angry. Maybe she really had nothing to hide, if that was the case then there was no harm. But if she was found to be harbouring a wanted criminal the consequences would be… unpleasant to say the least.

Luka quickly rose to his feet and moved deeper into the store room. He always found it funny how guards announced their plans so boldly and… loudly. It made it all the easier to plan around them. As the man entered the dark room Luka heard him tripping over objects as his eyes struggled to adjust to the darkness. Luka, on the other hand, could see fine. He was easily able to slip up behind the guy and take him by the neck, wrapping one arm around it and squeezing hard. The guard gurgled and struggled by was silent mostly until he fell into unconsciousness and the boy let him slip to the floor. [i]Only two left now.[/i]