Sky Mesa Ladrón

The male was after Machi. The mangy looking ugly one. They were atop them before she could blink. Safiya knew they could keep running. But they wouldn't make it. But maybe one of them could. 

She knew who they were after; she knew what they wanted. And much like Machi had told her once before. She would be something that could make her father heel. And it was a sickening, sickening realization. And for the first time in her young life she was absolutely revolted at the behavior of someone else. Not even her siblings had filled her with this much disgust and they were her siblings.

So Safiya chose to do something reckless with the fearlessness she carried. As Machi had said she always could. That someday it may happen. Well, today was the day. She turned with a snarl and aimed for the face of the bastard chasing her. She was smaller; she was quicker. She would dart around him and aim for the beast that went after her one friend in the world. Jury was still out on the man named, Soto.

Get away from him! Machi run to the palace. Tell them. They want me.

She used everything her father had taught her. She aimed, and she jumped. She would retreat and aim again. They had made a mistake when they thought she was nothing but a child. And that she would be afraid.

If it was fear, the big black ugly beast wanted. He wasn't getting it from her.