Keeper of Life - NaPoWrMo Entry

Sol's legs couldn't take her away fast enough. The image of teeth sinking into a guard still imprinted in her eyes like a photograph. Her heart was a frantic mess. They were there, they were beside here. She watched him die and could do nothing.

With frenzied steps she crossed the streets now afraid for her own life with the clattering hooves of others. Now she just wanted to get out, to run and hide.

She found the narrow alcove of a basement window and curled up inside it. She had been beside demons, how close she was herself to death.

She hid there for as long as possible but soon she was swarmed with guards who pulled her out without delicacy. They pushed her along the streets when battlecries were let loose. They scrambled through the alley, two were left with her as the rest disappeared.

“What's going on?” she asked.

“Just stay still, with us,” he said somehow now less stiff and yet twice as nervous.