The accident.

Gaius.

For what felt like forever, I managed to merge myself into the crowd again. I ignored the stares of people at how tattered I was looking.

I had managed to escape from the cell I was trapped in and rushed into the forest. After running and running for hours in fear of having guards being set after me, I found myself in the city of the moon goddess knows where. I tried to find my way out of the place, but nearly everyone I stopped ran away from me like I was some sort of plague. It was either because they knew I was someone who tried to escape from someone or something and they didn’t want to involve themselves in my matter or because they thought I would harm them. Whichever one it was, it wasn’t helping my situation.

Now, all I could do was get to busy areas and merge myself with the people there so that it wouldn’t be so easy to notice me among them.

“Did any of you see a man who looks tattered and probably has a chain on him?” I heard someone yell from a distance.

I knew