Eyja was still dazed. She saw what was happening around her, yet somehow her brain refused to process the information. So when someone knelt before her and spoke she heard the words and the wonderful melodic voice and frowned as she realized she didn't know what had been said. Her ears were ringing in an odd way - surely the after effects of fainting. 

Something warm took hold of her and she moved towards it until her head found a shoulder. Then the floor dipped away from under her and she was flying with the warmth. The witch tilted her head slightly. A girl was carrying her. She looked graceful and fragile at the same time. And still there was an unexplainable strength in her features and gaunt. The floor came back as she was put down. Something was supporting her back. The wall. And there were sirens and flashes of blue and red lights all about. Wait, were those police cars?

Eyja jolted back into reality with a fierce flinch. The Order! They had finally made it! The man . . . the man in the armor had embraced her and she had felt weaker. The girl in front of her asked her something and this time the meaning of her words registered in Eyjas brain. She tried to smile reassuringly. "Yes . . . I . . . I think I am . . . Thank you for saving me." She slightly lifted her body from the floor, using the wall as a support. "What's happening?" She spied past the girl and clasped both hands over her mouth as her eyes fell upon the lifeless bodies on the floor. Her world started turning and she pressed herself against the wall to not topple over, tearing her gaze from the horrid scene. That man! She had been in his clutches . . . and yet she lived whilst others . . . this was neither the time nor the place for these hypothetical ventures! In shock she looked at the girl who had saved her. "I'm sorry . . . Thank you . . . Your name?" The witch was trying to distract herself and staring at the lovely stranger before her kept her from looking back . . . at bodies . . . at people . . . splayed on the floor, motionless and still.