"We need to get to the stables Aria. It's our only chance out!" Julian said.
They had laid low until it was twilight. Aria smiled at the child who stared at her like an alien. Her lips formed a smile but that only acted to scare the child who fled to her mother's embrace.
"I can't keep you here any longer!" Voiced the older woman. Her hair looked messy and her eyes sunken, defying the will to die. One could see her determination to live in her sunken orbs, and the love for her child, a scrawny little thing!
"We'll take our leave soon," Aria replied. The woman had done her best to keep them hidden but she was risking her life by doing it. Though they had saved her daughter, the search was still on!
Julian studied the area through the spaces in the wood that made up the walls of the house. "They've left this side. We need to move now!"
