The market

[Maero]

The assassin growled and nodded and the deal was done. Sarah watched as Alex reappeared before her. She held Neko close, and stayed leaning against the pillar. "Did...is everything OK?" She asked as he fell to his knees. "Did he kill her?" She asked in a hushed voice. If he told Sarah that he didnt know or that he hadnt the last time he had seen her then she would smirk. "Well thats OK then...you know I have a trick or two up my sleeve two." She said. She laid Neko down on the floor for a moment and began to go through an assortment of clumsy hand signs.

"I panicked when your slave grabbed me..." She said as she did. "And I tagged her with a porting spell...but I have only read enough to port things to me...so it was kinda useless. But right now I can port her back...and then some..." She bit her tongue as she tried to concentrate, this was the first time she was trying this. "OK...alpha, delta, omega..." She said as she made the last three symbols.

Suddenly the room was full of wind and space time warped into a clumsily put together porting spell. Teleporting and porting were different since teleporting involved moving objects from place to place and could be done by simply looking at the object. Porting involved shifting time and space to drop a magically tagged object into a desired position, but porting was much more dangerous then teleporting, though technically it was easier to preform.

Suddenly Lillia emerged from the space time tear and dropped to the floor. She grasped her cut neck and gasped as she tried to figure out what had happened. At the same time, there was a splash as the assassin also dropped in, bit at the deep end of the pool. He had been running backwards, facing Lillia with his crossbow, but since he had just ported and fallen, the bolt that he shot collided harmlessly with the wall. He also began to sink and had to take off most of his gear in order to float back up, where a very angry wizard would await him.

Sarah gasped, covered in sweat and naked, since she hadnt had the time to recover her towel from the floor. Still she picked Neko back up and slumped down against the pillar, completely worn out from the controlled porting. "I...I hope this...makes...us...us even..." She groaned as she closed her eyes and passed out.