"Don't look at me with those eyes, dear ..." Her mother sighed loudly.
"But pleeeease!" Lyanna begged her mother to tell more.
"With only one condition! Do you agree with that?"
"Yes!" Lyanna nodded quickly.
Then instead of sitting on the floor, they stood up and walked next to the table and Lyanna sat on her mother's lap, while she sat on a chair.
"Hey, get the fuck out of here, you little shit!"
A random shout woke up Lyanna from her daze. As she looked around, she was already near the center of the city.
On the right, where the shouting came from, a bartender look-like man dragged a man out of a pub, still throwing words to the man's head.
"If you won't pay the bill in one weak, you can say farewell to your arms!" The bartender told loudly and he dropped the man into the mud.
As Lyanna walked forward, some soldiers ran in the direction where she came from.
"Hurry up! They found two dead guards at the west gate!" Someone said as they passed by her.
'So this city was one of the culprits... I wonder how the city's lord doing.' She thought.
The city seemed to be a bandit camp or something like that. The guards that patrolled very often went inside of a building that was a restaurant, a bar, or a brothel, anything that has some business. Lyanna quickly realized these people lived in terror for a long time.
'And we didn't even find anything about the situation here ...' Lyanna sighed inwardly with sadness.
She heard the panicking voices of people who kowtowed for their horrible livelihood when the soldiers and other bandit-like groups threatened them if they not doing that they asked.
Lyanna hardly controlled her boiling anger, but after a few breaths, she relaxed her inner emotions and approached a soldier who embraced a woman.
Lyanna quickly recognized the woman. It was a sister back in the monastery, who 'escaped' there from a brothel. And she was one of the women who left the monastery before that event with the knights.
"Where can I find the city's lord place?" Lyanna asked straightforwardly with an emotionless voice.
"I am a knight, you little prick! Talk to me with respect, or scram!" The man didn't pay attention to turn his head.
"Respect is hardly achieved, but easily lost." Lyanna answered and slowly turned around to leave.
"What did you just say, huh?" The knight turned at Lyanna and grabbed her shoulder from behind. "Where do you think you go, little bitch?"
"Ah, so my instincts were correct. The knights here are nothing much but a bunch of bandits." She shook her head while stepping forward.
"You ...!" Veins popped out the knight's forehead and moved his hand to grab his knife.
A sword could be too eye-catching so he restrained himself to draw his sword. He pointed the knife to Lyanna's back.
"Be a smart girl and follow me, if you don't want to be humiliated in broad daylight!" The man threatened her. "You wanted to meet with the lord, right? Don't worry, I am more gentle than him!"
He whispered the last sentence to Lyanna, who still kept her aura suppressing.
"I would give you some advice, but based on your behavior, castrating you wouldn't be enough to change your mind." She sighed moderately and closed her eyes.
"What?!" The knight turned her and pointed his knife at her neck. "Say one more word and I will slaughter you after some fun!"
The other people around the street noticed both of them and all attention focused on the knight and Lyanna.
"Hey, what do you think, how many our will that girl live with Dave?" One knight whispered.
"Hours? Are you kidding me? I don't even give her 10 minutes!" Another knight laughed loudly.
The knight who threatened Lyanna called Dave was a well-known drunkard man who always made a ruckus wherever he went. They didn't pay much attention to his doings but when something happened, the knights stood behind him because he was one of them. But now instead of that, they felt some sorry for the red-haired girl before him.
Lyanna slowly opened her eyes, little sparks flickered in it.
"Did you want to have some fun?" She asked him as coldly as the ice.
Dave has been frightened at the moment when he saw the girl's look. The knife slid out of his hand, clanging on the stone of the footway.
"What is he doing?" All knights whispered at the same time with disbelief.
"I will show you some fun. Vampire Aura - Blood Spikes." Lyanna told as silently as only Dave heard her words.
Some silent seconds later, blood appeared under his nose, another few seconds later, from the edge of his mouth and eyes too.