Selenka was tuning her lyre having decided to sing a travel song for the day. The caravan leader had let her stay as she helped to sing and of course work. To that end she had become a member of the group over time. Today's travel had started off like any other. All that hard work to pack and set up and then off out of the blue headed toward the next town. Selenka was sitting in the back of a wagon with a window open for airflow watching the way they were leaving burning it into her memory.
As they traveled she started with a light hearted melody about a merry chase through the woods finding one's lover hiding there as a surprise. She could hear her son groan from the front of the wagon but her granddaughter was held rapt by the song. Laughing she glanced back again outside enjoying traveling with the group when she noticed something odd. shadows moving along the back path for but an instant then gone. Her eyes widened and she almost stopped her song. indeed the tone dropped without her meaning too. So she changed the song a bit where the rendezvous with a lover was caught by surprise by another and so the pair were to flee. it was a fitting change she thought while the rest of her mind started to panic. She hated to fight and was worried this might be robbers. She was a talker and show kitsu, not a fighter. She glanced back again and saw the shadows closer this time. They were indeed other kitsu she didn't know and they didn't look friendly.
The wagon's slowed to a crawl and a stop as did her song. A quick peek around from the front of the wagon showed strange kitsu behind to the sides and the front of the caravan. a number of guards for the caravan had moved to protect the wagons with young and elderly. The wagon Selenka was in was low priority as it had no valuables to speak but her family and a few things worth a paw full of silver. Wrapping her lyre in a ratty cloth she held it close along with a bag of food. It would seem they were going to be robbed. "Your things to run. If it slows you to much leave it. Life can't be replaced." She could hear her son wrapping up a number of things here and there. Her granddaughter Ledda was wrapping up food to flee with.
They left their wagon to take their places with the larger amount of the caravan group fro this hold up. Selenka noticed the robbers were already raiding the further wagons. She noticed their security was lax to her back left. She started straight ahead and was in a panic. Could she trust the robbers to stop with just their things. She looked at the group they were motley and seemed far to crazed to stop at objects. No she couldn't trust that kind of roused up mob forming. She felt her heart close in her chest. Her mind started to scream that they should flee. She could feel a pull in her mind. Flee, Run, behind us. It felt like a strange kind of pull in her mind. it became a chant over and over as the bandits moved through another wagon working closer to the gathered group. Flee, Run, behind us. She felt the pull again with her chant. She noticed an ear flick on a kitsu in front of her as they seemed to have a bug in their ear. That was strange. She risked a glance back and saw the lax security hole was going to close. Flee, Run, behind us. NOW! There was no doubt she felt a pull of magic this time and five ktisu around her jumped and as she did started to flee. They ran past the robbers as did the rest of group who started to flee when the five did. She rand blindly for this caravan was lost but as long as lives remained they could rebuild it. She tried to keep track of her children and grandchildren in the mayhem it was their safety she wanted to keep track of the most. After all they her precious family.
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