I walk through the ruins of Kaso. This side of the kingdom has been long abandoned decades ago — probably around my grandfather was born. That’s when the monarchy decided to become more corrupt than it ever was.

Anastasia stumbles over so I quickly go over to her and steady her. "You okay?" I ask.

She nods. "Yeah. Thank you." Anastasia looks around. She is the princess of Katharos and now Numix since she got married to Prince Eiran. One day I was forced to tell the truth about where I am from. I told her of the brutalities of Kaso, how we are treated like scum, lesser — simply because we are not a part of royalty.

Princess Anastasia cried in front of me that night. Simply from hearing me talk about the things I lived through she broke down.

"What is this place?" she asks.

"These are the ruins of Kaso. They were abandoned years ago after they kingdom changed."

She stays silent for a moment before asking, "What made them change?"

I shrug. "I wish I knew."

Suddenly, an icicle strikes Anastasia in the arm.

"We’ve been found!" I put her behind me and breathe out a large fire.

Two of them weave it out of their while the other two shoots more icicles. _Two Neuros and two Pyros_.

Ana comes out from behind me and weaves it away from me, flipping it back into their direction and stabbing two of them in their shoulders.

One Pyro shoots a fireball past her face, I weave it back, largening it and attempt to push him back with it. He pushes it against a worn down, what I think it is, wall and runs towards me.

As he barrels towards me, I start to realise just how large he is.

_ God. Why did I have to tell the princess about my past? I should have kept it to myself. Then she would have never felt the need to come here herself to declare a war and then we would never be in this position-_

I can’t even finish my train of thought before the large bearded man jumps onto me, punching me over and over again. I dig my nails into his wrists and try to push him off but it seems like it’s no use and he’s not even noticing it.

I notice Anastasia’s eyes glow white.

_The Neuron State. _

_ This is going to be fun. _

She waters weaves two large tentacles and wraps it around both of their necks. She lifts both men up off of me and the ground and slowly suffocates them until they die.

Anastasia goes back to her normal state and looks around until her eyes land on my swollen and bruised face. She rushes over to me and kneels down, placing me head on her lap. "Are you okay?"

"I’ll be fine. We survived, didn’t we?"

(Based off of my WOF series)