A group of four traveled through the same forest that the inhabitants of the Seven Roses Bar had entered hours ago. They were traveling on the road that led to Ravenholm, and therefore missed Faye and Rosiel, who were in the snow, and Keovari and Mystical, steadily traveling away from the road and two their two friends.
This odd group walked in a diamond formation along the road, with a large Demon at the front, another Demon at the left side, and a human woman at the left side. Behind them was a tall Angel, shackled, trotting behind them. They had been making good time until the snow storm started and they entered the forest.
The Demon leader of the group, Samael, was getting worried about the road that they were on. The group were bounty hunters, and the Angel with them was one that they had found. While on jounry to Kirin, they had stopped to rest in the city of Ashur. Although they were bounty hunters, and two of their group were Demons, they weren't the sort of bounty hunters everyone liked to avoid. At least, everyone who abided by the law.
Samael and his son, Leonard, were outcasts from their own race because their beliefs did not seem to suit Demons. Samael taught his son that they were Angels, only with darker skin and blackened wings. He did not believe that Angels and Demons were really all that different, something that many Demons and Angels were reluctant to believe, and even more reluctant to accept. So, they were thrown from their home.
They could not go to Heaven and live with the Angels, so they lived amoung the humans in places were the humans were used to creatures that weren't so human. In the southern towns and cities, places like Ashur, humans, Demons, Angels, and many other creatures lived together and traded, and so, Samael and Leonard had stayed there, mostly.
In the city of Ashur, they met a human bounty hunter named Edeline. She needed a few other hunters to join her team so that she could catch some of the bigger and stronger bounties, and the two Demons joined her. Edeline was fair and honest, and the jobs that she was able to get paid well, and the group did not starve. The group of bounty hunters now knew each other for several years, and although Edeline was the one who had oringally contracted Samael, she accepted him as the leader of the group.
Edeline, a few months ago, had found a contact in the mountain city of Kirin, who wanted them to obtain a stolen shipment of slaves and kill those responsible for taking them. The deed had been done, and the slaves were left in Ashur with a relative of their Kirinian contact, given 75% of the reward (as per orders) and the group were to take a signed letter to Kirin in order to obtain the rest of the reward, as well as to recieve a new assignment.
On their way to Kirin, they had found an Angel, confused and lost in the plains. He was tall, with short silvery hair, silver eyes, and the usual pale skin of Angels. The back of his head was bleeding, and his body was covered in bruises. It appeared that he had fallen from somewhere. They had taken him into their camp, clamped him in irons, atteneded to his wounds, fed him, and questioned him. He did not know where he was from, what his name was, or what had happened to him.
The only thing that was obvious, was that he was a high-ranking Angel, by his uniform. Edeline suggested that they could sell him to their contact in Kirin as a slave, that at least he would be fed there, since he wasn't able to do much else. Samael didn't like the idea, but had agreed, silently hoping that someone along the way would want to buy him instead. He didn't like their contact in Kirin, and he definately didn't need the wrath of the Angels if they found out that one of their kind was a servant for a fat human that treated his pet boar with more affection than his family.
The only other alternative was to leave him in the plains, and they doubted that he would live for long, in his condition. There was a small unnamed town right on the boarder to the northern lands, and the group stayed in a small inn for the night. After asking around if anyone wanted to buy the Angel (or rather, someone who had enough money and looked like they would take care of him), the bar-keep told them about the town of Ravenholm, just northeast of their position.
She mentioned that she had heard that the owner of an inn there, The Seven Roses Bar, was an Angel. Demons from the northern lands came back bearing stories of the inn, about how they felt a holy presense constantly in the owner and his brother.
"Een iffen you can't sell the Angel boy, ya'll get a good night's rest, an' some fine food an' drink right 'afore your trip to them damn'd mountains," she had said. Samael had thanked her and related this information back to Edeline, who agreed to try selling the Angel to the owner of the inn, but only if he could pay for it.
And so, there they were, heading to Ravenholm, on the dirt road that they hoped wouldn't lead them elsewhere.
This odd group walked in a diamond formation along the road, with a large Demon at the front, another Demon at the left side, and a human woman at the left side. Behind them was a tall Angel, shackled, trotting behind them. They had been making good time until the snow storm started and they entered the forest.
The Demon leader of the group, Samael, was getting worried about the road that they were on. The group were bounty hunters, and the Angel with them was one that they had found. While on jounry to Kirin, they had stopped to rest in the city of Ashur. Although they were bounty hunters, and two of their group were Demons, they weren't the sort of bounty hunters everyone liked to avoid. At least, everyone who abided by the law.
Samael and his son, Leonard, were outcasts from their own race because their beliefs did not seem to suit Demons. Samael taught his son that they were Angels, only with darker skin and blackened wings. He did not believe that Angels and Demons were really all that different, something that many Demons and Angels were reluctant to believe, and even more reluctant to accept. So, they were thrown from their home.
They could not go to Heaven and live with the Angels, so they lived amoung the humans in places were the humans were used to creatures that weren't so human. In the southern towns and cities, places like Ashur, humans, Demons, Angels, and many other creatures lived together and traded, and so, Samael and Leonard had stayed there, mostly.
In the city of Ashur, they met a human bounty hunter named Edeline. She needed a few other hunters to join her team so that she could catch some of the bigger and stronger bounties, and the two Demons joined her. Edeline was fair and honest, and the jobs that she was able to get paid well, and the group did not starve. The group of bounty hunters now knew each other for several years, and although Edeline was the one who had oringally contracted Samael, she accepted him as the leader of the group.
Edeline, a few months ago, had found a contact in the mountain city of Kirin, who wanted them to obtain a stolen shipment of slaves and kill those responsible for taking them. The deed had been done, and the slaves were left in Ashur with a relative of their Kirinian contact, given 75% of the reward (as per orders) and the group were to take a signed letter to Kirin in order to obtain the rest of the reward, as well as to recieve a new assignment.
On their way to Kirin, they had found an Angel, confused and lost in the plains. He was tall, with short silvery hair, silver eyes, and the usual pale skin of Angels. The back of his head was bleeding, and his body was covered in bruises. It appeared that he had fallen from somewhere. They had taken him into their camp, clamped him in irons, atteneded to his wounds, fed him, and questioned him. He did not know where he was from, what his name was, or what had happened to him.
The only thing that was obvious, was that he was a high-ranking Angel, by his uniform. Edeline suggested that they could sell him to their contact in Kirin as a slave, that at least he would be fed there, since he wasn't able to do much else. Samael didn't like the idea, but had agreed, silently hoping that someone along the way would want to buy him instead. He didn't like their contact in Kirin, and he definately didn't need the wrath of the Angels if they found out that one of their kind was a servant for a fat human that treated his pet boar with more affection than his family.
The only other alternative was to leave him in the plains, and they doubted that he would live for long, in his condition. There was a small unnamed town right on the boarder to the northern lands, and the group stayed in a small inn for the night. After asking around if anyone wanted to buy the Angel (or rather, someone who had enough money and looked like they would take care of him), the bar-keep told them about the town of Ravenholm, just northeast of their position.
She mentioned that she had heard that the owner of an inn there, The Seven Roses Bar, was an Angel. Demons from the northern lands came back bearing stories of the inn, about how they felt a holy presense constantly in the owner and his brother.
"Een iffen you can't sell the Angel boy, ya'll get a good night's rest, an' some fine food an' drink right 'afore your trip to them damn'd mountains," she had said. Samael had thanked her and related this information back to Edeline, who agreed to try selling the Angel to the owner of the inn, but only if he could pay for it.
And so, there they were, heading to Ravenholm, on the dirt road that they hoped wouldn't lead them elsewhere.
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