Apple skipped along the streets, feeling a bit more secure as the sun lowered into the horizon until it vanished from sight. Seeing a rather suspicious group of people walking down the street, they jumped into the shadows. The group glanced towards their direction, then continued their walk further away. Apple didn't trust the looks of this at all, and had an odd feeling about them. 

    Slowly walking after, they snuck in the shadows. Thankfully, it was now nighttime, letting them go about this pretty unseen. Apple saw them turn around a corner, and they ran after. They hoped the group would slow down a tad, Apples breath was soon going to give them away to this group. 

    The group in front of Apple came to a halt, looking around quickly. Their heads swiveled around, and Apple shrunk back into the shadows a bit. They pointed in a direction after a bit, and they set off walking that way. Apple was thankful for said direction not being theirs, and they continued to sneak after them. 

    The mysterious group was moving out of the main areas, using randomly chosen small streets where no people were. Apple wasn't liking this at all. 

Mikael had smiled whilst wandering to get some food and supplies for his creatures, humming as he went with his tail swaying, it was a nice evening with a gentle breeze and quite enjoyable. He wondered if he would see the man who had caught his fancy and glanced around for the guard only to see the men. He tilted his head and moved to walk around them before one grabbed his arm. His eyes widened and he moved to grab his knife only to find one at his own throat causing him to freeze he tried not to panic as he tried to think of a way out only to be jostled from such thoughts when he was pushed into the narrow side alley eyes widening as he realized there were quite a few people. He focused on a spell only to have his hand stepped on after being thrown to the ground causing him to Yelp in pain. It wasn’t long even with his struggling to be tied and gagged. He struggled still and prayed his knight would find him and save him but he knew the hopes of that were low. He didn’t even know if he was on shift currently

    Apple heard the little cry of pain and turned a corner to see someone being restrained by the group. That was a problem. Trying to decide what to do quickly, they jumped out of the shadows and held up their hand to attack them. But the group moved faster, one of them rushing forwards and grabbing their hand, yanking Apple forwards towards the rest of them. 

    "HEY-" Apple screeched, only to be silenced by a hand covering their mouth. They started kicking and scratching at the captors, until someone finally got the bright idea to tie both the kidnapees with a rope. Then Apple got a bright idea, closing their eyes and focusing [1]. They opened their eyes to see lightning crackling around them, as the person who had tied the both of them up leapt back and started waving his hand around wildly to get rid of the pain. 

    Apple used the chance to grab the other persons ropes and start trying to drag them away and scream for help, although no one heard or didn't care enough to come. While not wanting to risk grabbing Apple and get shocked, they grabbed the ropes of Mikael and Apple to start dragging them away. The group fastened a lasso around Apple to prevent getting hit by the lightning, as Apple thrashed around wildly. 

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[1] - Lightning armor. 

Mikael thrashed “sable! Sa-“ he got out before being gagged as he struggled eyes widening seeing the girl try to help and get dragged into this. He saw her shock one of the kidnappers and begged her in his mind to run and leave. He was shocked however when he felt himself topple from sitting as she tried to drag him away from danger. He wished he could tell her to leave him and go- find the guards find sable- gods he felt helpless in this moment and pathetic that a child was doing more in this situation than he could. If he could reach his scrolls or use his hands he could summon his beasts or at least try to cast something to at least attempt to help but here he was and now this child was dragged into it with him. He gave up struggling and tried to work on formulating a plan as his faint glowing eyes gazed over their captors and around for any signs of where they were going and how many people their were involved in this. Maybe there would be an opportunity to flee soon and he could get the girl out of this mess