Ulta | Market
I hung there watching as market life moved around me. What was I going to do? I knew no-one was going to help me, I'd betrayed or killed too many people... Then I saw her. The temple maiden. The one I'd actually gotten along with, I gathered air in my broken lungs to out to her but stopped. It was her mistress who had betrayed me, what's to say she hadn't been sent to torment me? It was at that moment she walked over to me, she made it look as if she was only in passing but paused next to me.
"Oh, Ulta" She whispered, "What has happened to you?" Cara looked almost depressed to see me. I wondered wether she was sad to see me still alive or a spark of our old friendship still burned within her. "Well no matter, I'm going to look after you? Do you have place to stay?" She isn't here to torment me? No, I must be imagining this. But it's Cara, I shouuld be able to trust her. Even if she was a figment of my imagination. So I indulged in my fantasy. Weakly my head bobbled, indicating a nod.
"Good. I have influence with some of the guards, they'll bring you too me tonight. From there we can go to your place." She spoke in hushed tones so that others could not hear.
"You're a Temple Maiden still." It wasn't a question but she nodded anyway, "Wait at the Temple, there will be a boy and a girl arriving soon I think," panting for breath I continued, "They're 'bout our age. Send them away, tell them 'Ulta says go and meat at tenth on the left', promise me Cara. Come to me only once you've done what I've asked, you owe me that much." There was a short but eternal pause before she answered.
"I promise Ulta, just say alive for me, okay?" Again my head bobbled. She glided away into the crowd, hopefully to the Temple before Aodán got there.
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