"Oh dear." Aery was momentarily taken aback by the sobbing Celaena. "Hey, hey, Celaena, Celaena. Aelin? Lady Sardothien. Aelin. Celaena, come on. We've got to keep it together, just for a few more hours, okay? Just a few more hours, once we've gotten all the kids safe and this killer locked in a cell, then we can go curl up in corners and cry. But not until then, because we've got a hundred other kids depending on us." But she also wanted to cry. So she embraced Celaena, for a moment, and then pulled the woman to her feet. Apparently, the sound she'd heard had just been an echo or something, so she went to the broken-down door and knocked twice. Ame and Silly came out along with the seven or eight other urchins who'd been in there. Except... "Kick is sick an' I can' carry him." The oldest girl there, only about seven, said softly. "He's on'y four, bu' he's nearabou' as big as me, an' I can' carry him an' run." So Aery went into the building, gathered up the feverish four year old (who was very large for a four-year-old) and cradled him in her arms. She'd figure out what was wrong with him later, the important thing was getting them to safety. She used a length of cloth that she'd brought from the palace, looped it around Silly's back, and tucked the boy in there. Silly was strong, she knew, and certainly healthier than the group's leader. "Hurry, Silly, and take them to the guild by the palace. Tell whoever's waiting there that Aelin Sardothien and her apprentice Aerienna Silverheart sent you there to seek refuge. You know the way. The rest of you, follow Silenia. Hold hands, all of you, and don't let ANYONE separate you, no matter what." She hurried them off, with a final comment of "Stick to the shadows!" and turned back to Celaena, awaiting instructions. (User, I thought I'd made it clear that we'd cornered you. And there's no way you can know about the other urchin camp, since it was Aery's thought and not actually spoken. I'll let it go this time, as I am taking the opportunity to get the urchins out of there, but now we're even, okay, because I messed up on one of my posts, and you kind of messed up this one. You can't keep ignoring our character's actions towards you. I'm sorry that this came out so harshly, but I thought I should mention it.)

“My reputation has been destroyed Arienne, I claim the bastard who did this as my kill, lets go the guild then i also own all the shops there giving every one about two thousand gold income everyday get the best stuff, no debt owed and make sure you get me a golden jeweled mask as well as jet black attire“ Aelin said as she walked with Arienne to the other guild “

As soon as they came into sight of the guild, Aery breathed a sigh of relief. All hundred-odd of the urchins were there, most with daggers in their hands. Silly had worked fast. She froze when Celaena mentioned how much they had per-day. "Are you sure, Celaena? That's an awful lot of gold. And actually, I know the little ones will be safe here, so if you could come with me and help me decide on things? I'm thinking crossbows for the over-sevens and slings for the 4-to-6es? Especially if we get some of those potion sling-stones, the hollow ones with the spells in them? Armor for everyone... The littles don't need masks, do they?" She was deliberately chattering too much. "I'd like to get myself some mage-charmed arrows. Oh, wait. Not slings, for the littlest ones. That would be a disaster. Blowguns. I know they have some nice ones, multi-shot ones, and we can poison the darts, and get the special charmed ones too. Some of the ten- and eleven-year-olds can use the razor disks very nicely... That's actually where I learned about them from. As always, poison or mage-spelled." She giggled rather insanely. "This is going to be fun, preparing for a war. And we'll be the best-dressed assassins in history."

Allen stayed quite as the very large display of drama played out before him.Aelin must know this girl ,they seem somewhat close. He thought to himself. Allen proceeded to follow them still a bit clueless to the situation.The alley is what he didn't understand but he continued to follow not questioning anything until Aelin's little friend open a door in one of the alleys "The hell are those!!!" Allen shouted as if he had never seen a child before. He didn't like how the children looked a little roughed up. He turned towards Aelin." Hey sis ,if you don't have enough men to back you up then I can stand guard and protect this guild place from its next attackers." Allen took another odd glance at the childern as the distance between them and the guild decreased. " Also was the urchants this Charles person killed....Children?" He asked with a hint of a serious tone in his voice.

Shadow stumbled back up the road and away from the guild. he knew that no one in the guild would be willing to help him. he kept on moving up the road towards an old looking building that he knew held one of the few contacts that he had in the city. he knocked on the door and when it opened he went in and then took off the shirt of his armor. he let the doctor look at his wound and then explained his thoughts of him being poisoned. he fell asleep as the doctor got to work on trying to help him.

Celaena followed Aery to the shops, while looking for charles to her surprise he wasn't there " Where could the bastard be, Aery go to the back up guild and notify Chaol to order his guards to attack Charles on sight, tell him show no mercy. "

the horse was going at full pelt, past the gates. past all the shops, he was going to make it to the main gate and to the wilderness if they never got to him.

The guards saw him coming from afar and shut the gates, trapping him in Rifthold. Meanwhile across the city Celaena gently eased open the guild doors to allow the Urchin's in. "And when you are back Aery me and you will travel to Xandria to collect an old friend of mine

(you know, despite the fact that a messgage wouldnt reach there that fast) seeing the problem he stood on the saddel as the horse kept running, he was a few meters from the line when he jumped and hit the building nextdoor running across the roof, hitting the city wall and sliding down on the vines all this while taking heavy shots fro bows and guns. he hit the floor running and stole another horse and he was off.

Celaena had been through enough today, betrayal was the main thing, she failed her promise to Arienne "Ailen, protect th children with your life and don't let anyone in if they can't answer the question of how old I am." Celaena said to her Brother before pulling her cloak hood up

the new horse wasnt as fast as the royal horse but it was doing the trick "How did this all go tits up?" he knew it would be hard, but never thought he would burn old bridges.

Celaena got to work writing a letter to Charles she wanted him back in her clutches where she could injure him severely, mutilation, torture and gouging his eyeballs came to mind and she smiled Dear, Charles I need you in rift hold by sundown to forgive you, can't we let by gones be bygones... I claim you She ordered a courier to send it and then went to a tavern. Chaol was waiting for Celaena in the guild he was pacing up and down he then seen a large group of Urchins came in.

Allen noded and redressed into his suit so he wouldn't look suspicious and have to postpone his travel to fight mercanaries. He stole a near by horse and left on of his priceless rings as a payment for the horse. The horse galloped towards the back up guilds location. He held his sword in his hand just in case an enemy decided to show himself before his arrival at the guild. By now he could see the building in the distance and motioned the horse to continue faster in that direction.

Charles got a leter soon after stopping in a near by bar "Well, i see i must return, to finish what i started" he walked outside and climbed n his horse. putting in in full speed he arrived at the gate soon (3 posts)

Celaena wandered out of the Tavern, She thought it was satisfactory that Charles would return, she smiled at her plan but she had to get a shipment of Spidersilk(the strongest clothing in Eirela, strong enough to withstand a sword stab) for her Assassins, especially her apprentice Aery, she made a promise to protect the young girl and she would die protecting her.

Leon rubbed his eyes sleepily, it had been a long day. He spent some of his ill-begotten gold on food and wandered around looking for a place to spend the night. He found a creepy looking building(Backup Guild) and carefully entered in through the roof of the building, then he wrapped his cloak around himself and laid his head against the hard wooden wall eyeing in the area around him. Given where he was he should probably be safe, if not, well the life of a thief was exciting at the least.

Celana searched around for Aery, the ship toXandria would be leaving in thirty minutes and she needed to find Aery "Aery, we are leaving for Xandria soon" she shouted to the sky, had Aery heard her only time will tell and time was of the essence,

Shadow woke up a while later and stood up. he felt a lot better. he took out some gold and then left it on the table for the doctor to get when he comes back. he walks outside and stretches. he grunts a bit as his shoulder flashes with pain. he checks that he has all his items and then starts to walk down the paths to the local tavern. he soon finds himself out in the open with few people around and he just hopes that he isn't found by guards when he is in a bit of a weakened state.

Aery, thanks to her excellent hearing, faintly heard "thirty minutes." She shoved the armloads of clothing she had purchased into a pack, shouldered the pack, and sprinted to the docks. "Sorry, Celaena, I was trying to find clothes for us! I didn't realize the ship left today!!" She grinned, stood on tiptoe, and whispered to Celaena "I found tunics reinforced with a really expensive fabric called spidersilk. They were next to the armor in one of the specialty stores. I kind of guessed at sizes, but there's one for me, one for you, and spares for your brother and his other... friend. I got a few for some of the fighting urchins, mostly Silly and the other family leaders, and also one for Ame because I worry incessantly about that girl. I'll show you when we get on the ship. Also, masks. They're in the bag as well."
Speaking of Silly and Ame, they came running up just as the five-minute alarm to get on the ship blared. "Sorries, miss, on'y, I couldn'ta convince th' guard tha' we'd be aright with yous. I ha' to sneak away. Ye can' really been thinkin'a goin outta the country, wi'out us, was ye?" Silly put her hands on her knees, sucking in air. "I can' stay here, no' when Tazz an' all th' others be hauntin' me." She met Celaena's eyes, tears spilling over her lashes. "They won' leave me alone. They be tellin' me tha' I needs to fin' who killed they, an' do justice on 'im. I can' bear it, acoz' they be tellin' me tha' they're in pain, an' it's dark, an' the littles be scared, an' they can' leave the dark till they don' have no unfinished business 'ere, an' I just can' do nothin' for 'em, ye know? An' it hurts me, tha' they can' have peace until they killer be dead, bu' I'm no match for 'im, nay. Can I please come with ye? And Ame too, acoz she don' get along with the other littles?"
"I unnerve them." Came the little whisper. "Because I remember everything I've ever heard, and it all makes sense to me." Ame's bright purple eyes met Celaena's gold ones. "I'm not strong or fast, but I'm smart, and that's got to count for something, right?"

Celaena felt a deep urge just to cancel the trip but instead thought better of it "Ame, ' Silly ' I'm sorry that you're friend passed away, here have this Ame' Celaena let her fingers take the necklace she was wearing off and then outstretced her open hand " Ame, This trip will be dangerous, are you sure and ' Silly ' I'll let you kill the person that killed Tazz, That is your gift once I have him begging to be killed, Celaena then brought her hand to her mouth and kissed it then rested it on Ame's cheek, Celaena then looked to Aery and mouthed 'Shall we take them to Xandria too '.

She then looked at the ship, then turned around to face them " Come on then " She glanced at Aery and walked to the ship, She had been to Xandria once before but that was to train with the Mute Master, training with him was hell, he couldn't talk!!! while she was there she befriended a Girl named Ansel, but it turns she betrayed the Mute Master and nearly killed him that is until Celaena stepped in, Celaena didn't kill Ansel.