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Chapter 42 - Panic

Meanwhile...

Valura was in the office with the others before the rush of panic. Arnwall and Zao were made to guild the guards to see what happened at the tower and Sicily chose to go with them. The nobles were suddenly bickering back and forth about what to do about the commotion with questions being answered with more questions. Valura stayed quiet in her seat nervous and worried for Arnwall and his friends. One of the windows suddenly crack and force the room to fall to a heavy silence. It cracks again and the room gasps in fear everyone starts to inch toward the doors. Finally the windows shatter as a large group of members from the black market mafia rush in with their weapons and harsh grins. The room instantly scatters and stampede out the room in panic screaming.

Valura tries to run with them out of the room but is knock out of the way. She stumbles and fall over the edge of the sky way and grabs hold of the railing for dear life. She was hanging four stories off the ground. The mafia group rushes past and don't notice her at the edge. Once it was silent again, she tries to climb back up. As she gets over the railing she sees the ambassador slip out the door and look around then see her hanging on. The look he gave her suddenly gave her chills she struggles to get over and run run but he catches her by her hair and a large cloud of black blocks her path. The ambassador was now in front of her with red eyes and a hellish smile. She backs away and he jumps at her. She screams and falls to the ground but nothing happens.

She looks back to find Arnwall and Zao plunge their swords through him. Zao's sword held him in a solid state with its light magic at the leg while Arnwall's pierced through his heart from the back. Sicily makes it to them and finds the two had killed the shadow Ambassador and watches him dissipate into black particles and disappear. Zao and Arnwall help Valura to her feet. She staggers to Arnwall and holds him from fear. He pats her back to calm her down. Sicily sighs and rests her hands on her knees exhausted from running back and forth. She looks to the documents and remembers why she was all over the place. She wondered what should be at her top priority.

Sicily finally makes up her mind and heads back to find the nobles.