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[center][b]Character:[/b] Evelyn Caroline
[b]Location:[/b] The Unnamed Swamp
[b]Tagging:[/b] The First Sin - Sloth [@AllHollowsEve]
Summary: Eve is shocked to have found one of the Sins, and after his battle, fears for his life.[/center]

     Her savior came out of nowhere. Just when she felt the mud rising to her head, she felt something lift beneath her, scooping her from the muck and water. Eve gasped and spat away the mud that coated her lips. If she had been a lady, it was near lost beneath all the mud and weed. She was fortunate that her eyes hadn’t been covered for she would have nothing to clean them with. Her eyes opened, gazing at the open palm beneath her hands. She hadn’t realized that a hand was what it actually was until her head snapped up. She saw the large fingers that protectively formed a barrier around her and her skin prickled. Was she in the hand of a giant?

     Eve turned around, still on her knees, and saw that there was a second gauntlet with a lone man standing within it. The gauntlets weren’t attached to a giant as she had suspected. They weren’t attached to anything. She watched in awe as the man irritably addressed the soldiers. When the lieutenant identified the man to be a Sin, she felt her heart skip. She had found one. She desperately reached into her slip, removing what was once a poster but what turned out to be a soggy piece of paper that fell apart in her hands. Dropping the useless scraps, she sighed sullenly. She had no way to identify if the lieutenant’s claim was true, but from their further exchange she could only assume so. She gasped in startle when the gauntlet moved beneath her, dropping her off onto a small island of dry overgrown swamp grass.

     The girl rose to her feet, her hands clutching each other as she nervously continued to listen to the two’s exchange. She smiled in relief when Eliphas chose not to turn her over to the Holy Knight, and then tensed when the lieutenant ordered his men to capture her any way. She fearfully faced the charging men and jumped in fright when one of the colossal gauntlets slammed down on top of two of the soldiers before sending them flying into the other three. As the soldiers fell into the bog, Eve’s attention was drawn to the Holy Knight as he drew his sword.

     [b]“Be careful! That’s no normal weapon, it’s an arc!”[/b] she warned Eliphas. She didn’t know if he would know what an arc was, but he seemed to possess some powerful magic. Or maybe…she recalled her father telling her how each of the Sins each possessed a powerful arc of their own. The princess felt only awe, watching the Sin combat the Holy Knight. He actually stood a chance. Normal men couldn’t take on an entire squad of White servants.

     [b]“Look out!”[/b] Eve exclaimed. She couldn’t have warned him soon enough for the lieutenant had moved in a blink to bury his knee into Eliphas’s stomach. The gauntlets made a scramble to try and nab him, but he was too fast. Eve continued to clutch her hands, praying silently for Eliphas to succeed. Her hands went to her mouth, her eyes going wide when she saw Lucien’s blade plunge through Eliphas’s chest and out the back. When the Sin fell to the ground, Eve lowered her hands and shook her head in disbelief. [i]No; I just found one. This can’t happen. The legend said they were unstoppable![/i]

     Eve backed away from the Holy Knight when he demanded she go with him. He glanced again at the bog. Blinking the tears from her eyes, she defiantly growled at the lieutenant, [b]“I would rather drown!”[/b]

     When the lieutenant was suddenly rammed by the gauntlets, her eyes widened, watching him fly into the shallows. A trap snagged his foot and dragged the angry man off into the swamp. The gauntlets were gentle with Eliphas. When they approached her, she gazed upon the wounded man feeling only sadness. It was a strange feeling. She hadn’t even known him and yet she felt as though something dear to her had been harmed. She gazed over at the left gauntlet that beckoned her with the curl of its finger. The gesture made her skin crawl a little. That would take some getting used to. She walked over and stepped into the hand, lowering to her knees for fear she might fall. She crawled over to one of the fingers and held it as she gazed over at Eliphas.

     [b]“You’re one of the Sins. There are seven of you and I have been searching for all of you,”[/b] she informed. She then wiped some tears and mud from her cheeks. [b]“So you can’t die because I need your help.”[/b]