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she was running through the woods .
Lost , which is to say she had no idea which way was out .
Which was much like her life , lost with no way out .
Ever since she had received the letter from Kyr life seem to have become an ever decreasing circle of self doubt and self loathing . No one understood her reasons for what she had done . In truth she hardly understood them herself .
It was all her brothers fault , if he had not been stupid enough to get caught breaking kyrian law then none of this would have happened , But then he always did have a habit of doing the wrong thing at the wrong time . She only wished she had never made the promise to her mother to look after the wrench . But a death bed promise was a promise you kept . If your word to your own mother was proved to be false then what self esteem did you have .
Worst luck for him to be caught on the lands of the Sunrunner clan , kyrian law made him theirs to punish and judge . They must have believed they had the blessings of the kyrian gods when they discover he had a sister in the Brother hood of the silent pond , close to the one they sort .
A promise to her mother on her death bed became the death warrent of another , " this sariah , I hold no ties to her  , " she had reasoned , " why should she be free with a murder over her head when my brother lies in a kyrian jail for nothing more than a simple pick pocketing job gone wrong . He faces a death sentence he does not deserve and this sariah is a slave who murdered her master , what right has she to be free where my brother is in chains . "
Yet now however , Lost and alone in the woods , searching for a way out and back to the road , having lost the dancing girl and her partner , Now she knew that Sariah's life was not hers to deal with any more than her brothers was a life for the sunrunners to play with . Wintermoon knew she had done sariah a great miss service . One wrong does not solve another it only adds to the pain in the world . And now her pain was added to .
She hoped Sariah was free now , free of Cuisla , free of the chains that bound her to kyr ,
No that was not true , inside the selfish part of her , the part that had ruled the last few weeks of her life , the selfish part still gloried in what she had done . Taking the dancer felt good , on a level she did not want to think about . She wished she'd had more time to achieve her aims , there was something , some bitter sweet satisfaction in ruining another's life like hers had been ruined .
She hoped Cuisla had the dancing girl still , and that when she left these woods she would meet up again and ruin the dancers life for good as the dancer had unwittingly ruined here's
Those friends she had in the brotherhood were  gone , turned away from her , and all because a slave girl won her freedom from the family that held her brother .

At last she saw light on the edge of the forest , a break in the trees she ran for it , but as she broke into open county she heard the hooves of a horse behind her .
She turned and saw the centaur break free of the woods behind her .
Desperately she ran , till her lungs were close to bursting , but the centaur ran her down , an arrow whizzing past her head ,
Wintermoon turned and fired back ,three arrows hoping to slow the centaur down , but the beast kept coming , she turned and ran again , her legs like lead weights .
finally with the centaur almost upon her she turned and vaulted into the air , landing astride the centaur .
the creature bucked and tried to throw her , but she clung on ,
but the strength was fleeing from her arms and legs and after the centaur throw her from it's back .
as the centaur raised it's bow one last time wintermoon thought of her brother , dying in a kyrian jail , alone and scared .
And she cursed Sariah the dancer with his name as the arrow struck home ......................................................................

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