"Haah…Haah…Haaah…"
He was panting as he ran as fast as the legs of an eight year old boy can go, it was not his plan to reveal the plan he had thought of to increase the earnings of the kingdom of beggars at all, but hearing the other beggars talking about Asu and how Red was about to punish her in the basement forced him to make that decision.
"Wait, you…You just wait…I'll…I…I'll save you,"
Asu was the youngest beggar to ever be admitted to Red's kingdom, and if that was not enough for her to tug on the strings of the kind boy's heart, she had green eyes that had nothing to do with the shade of his mother's eyes or his sister's eyes. However, little Asu reminded John terribly of Treasure.
The idea that she was about to get flogged was enough to make him want to scream.