This wasn't good, and Thalia knew it.

She was lost, in the woods, by herself, with no idea on which way the road or the nearest civilization was. She had no survival skills, and didn't know the lands outside the capitol at [I]all[/I]. She'd been stowing away in the back of a trading caravan, intent to leave the awful streets of the city and hopefully arrive in the neighboring city, where there was a large church that helped the homeless, but she had no chance of arriving there on her own... So, she'd stowed away, and prayed she wouldn't be caught.

Unfortunately for the scrawny, dirty, white-haired girl, she had been. And the ownber of the caravan hadn't been too happy. He'd beaten her, blindfolded her, and then carried her in to the woods and left her. By the time she'd gotten the blindfold of fhe was gone, and she had no idea which way the road was... She was lost.

At least she'd found this enormous necklace, she thought. It was huge! She doubted it would fit even the angry Blacksmith's neck. She suspected the gold was solid as well, and while it was heavy, she'd likely get a pretty penny for it on the markets. Hopefully enough for a day or two of food, any way...

But man, she was thristy! She hadn't eaten or drank for two days, and she'd been planning on taking a little of the trader's dried foodstuffs, but he'd caught her before she had the chance, a day and a half from the capitol. Thalia was in the process of trying to find food or water when there was a large commotion above her. The girl gasped and covered her head, and relaxed when it was nothing but waterfowl scattering...

Wait, waterfowl! There was water nearby! Thalia had spent enough time trying to find scraps around the sluaghterhouses to have picked up a few things from the hunters. Waterfowl meant water, and Thalia made for it post haste.

The girl cried out happily whens he heard a chorus of quacks and other bird noises, rushing through the brush and scattering a few more birds. She rushed towards the water, her lips cracked and her tongue dry and-

And she stopped cold, stone still. There, across the water, were dragons.

Two of them.