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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wulf Ratbane" data-source="post: 2877861" data-attributes="member: 94">“Assassins!” someone screamed. “Seize them!”A red blaze like heat lightning flashed across Brigitta’s face with a barely audible hiss. Ress’saar’s blade whipped back inches from her throat, but Sil’saar’s own razor-thin selk was out, and he easily deflected the killing backstroke. His own riposte pierced the heart of Ress’saar’s bru captain, who grunted once before his body withered into a pile of glowing ash.“Get them out of here!” Sil’saar ordered.Rough hands effortlessly jerked Brigitta off her feet and she was hauled out of the growing melee. Ress’saar and Sil’saar had drawn apart, and their bodyguards leapt between them in a snarl of blades and teeth. Blood splattered to the floor—followed by limbs. Brigitta winced and turned away, but she was already being hustled towards the door. Joshua, Rawley, and Haskins were shoved, pushed, kicked, half-rolled and half-hustled along as Gru’tur tried to protect them and break them free of the scrum. He grabbed Teddy by the collar and hoisted him to his feet, shoving his own gurak into Teddy’s fumbling hands. “Fight for your life,” said Gru’tur.Teddy looked down at the weapon in his hands and his confusion melted away. All of the various political implications of their predicament—from the moment they arrived on this accursed world, to their capture, their torture, their time as gladiators—it was all irrelevant. He girded his mind in the clarity of combat.Gru’tur’s squad formed a wedge, fortifying their flanks as the warriors at the tip gave way to Gru’tur and Teddy, who together carved a path through the hall to a side exit. If Gru’tur was any more circumspect than Teddy, with regard to friend or foe, it was not evident to the others. Bru, human, skreet, and perhaps a ra or two; all who stood in their way fell dead or reeled away, screaming.Haskins turned to look behind them as they passed into an archway out of the grand hall. The entire hall was filled with battling reptiles. Red-armored bru warriors—the Hematite Authority?—were filing in to restore order, firing indiscriminately into the crowd with their suppression rifles. None dared to fire back.--“Where are we going?” asked Brigitta. They were fleeing rapidly down the dark stone corridors that ran beneath the Saar Palace. “Back to the Muk’taraat,” said Gru’tur. “Sil’saar will rejoin us there.”“How do you know he won’t be killed up there?” asked Rawley.“None would dare,” said Gru’tur, as if he were explaining something obvious to a child. “It does not work like that.”“Not here in House Saar,” said Haskins. He thought he understood.“Not anywhere,” corrected Gru’tur. “The ra cannot simply kill one another when the whim strikes. We are a society of laws… and tradition,” he admitted.True, thought Haskins. Somebody went through an awful lot of trouble to assassinate Jala'saar, and keep their hands clean.They had been moving down a long tunnel, certainly longer than the one they had entered by, but they suddenly burst into the light, into an alleyway outside the Saar Palace. Gru’tur moved down the alley to the busy street and stopped a skreet-borne palanquin. Holding aside the curtain, he urged them to enter. “Inside, and quickly.” They hestitated a moment but Gru’tur’s squad soon got them moving. Gru’tur pulled the curtains closed, though they could still see the feet of his soldiers as they slunk furtively out of the alley to encircle the palanquin. With a sharp word from Gru’tur, the palanquin moved off, borne on the quick, quiet, padded feet of a dozen ratmen.Inside, Brigitta turned her wide eyes on Haskins and incredulously mouthed the thing that was on all their minds:“Where’s… Bill?”In celebration of our collective return, how's about we level everybody up to 6th?</blockquote>

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