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The slim female of the bandits turned hearing Jack and frowned. She stepped back then leaped back into the shadows, closing one portal of shadows and opened another, spying her companion as she went into it and vanished, opening another to come out behind Jack, landing a hard kick into his lower back before leaping back into the shadows appearing elsewhere in the barn, planning her next move.

Watching she opened a portal of shadows for her companion and if he would enter would open a second behind the Prince to allow him to strike, smirking behind her mask, seeing this would be not too hard and wondered where their third member was.

The woman saw this and frowned. She opened a portal from under her ally and sent them outside to fall down from above Tala to attack him for her. She stayed in the shadows still, the shadows her ally and power source. She warped herself to the top of the barn, watching silently before vanishing and appearing in a tree watching this while forming a whip so she could attack from a distance to keep to her shadows.

The woman bandit frowned seeing the man held down then sighed softly, shaking her head at how pitiful he was. Opening her eyes she eyed the Prince. Better to get one annoying rat than none. she thought before lifting the whip she had formed.

Listening she smirked before attacking, swinging the whip out quickly with a loud sharp crack as she took aim at Tala, smirking, aiming to knock him back before she would try and snap the whip around to snag his leg or arm. She wanted to restrict his movements and get him to be useless, wanting to have a better advantage.

"Don't worry, I'll leave once we've finished." She cooed in a soft firm voice, eyes set on the Prince as she swung her whip a third time at him, trying to grab him so to get the better advantage and to use him as a bargaining tool to get her comrade back, not realizing Tala was the Prince, thinking he was just some soldier since Jack was there she assumed it just commander and underling.

When the tug came the woman lost her foot a little but made the whip longer, allowing Tala to gain more whip. Carefully she had an extra whip split from the first, aiming at Tala again, aiming to grab his wrist, hoping to pull him down.

Yet when she heard the word 'sire' from Jack she blinked, watching the man then looked to Tala blinking. "Sire? Oh I see~ so we don't have a underling...." she muttered and grinned, grunting as she shot one free hand out forwards. "Go!" she snapped.

The ground started to shake as below Tala she began to open one of her dark portals, grinning wider. "We're about to make ourselves very very rich!" she laughed finding her idea very brilliant, grab and capture his royalness and use him to gain themselves a Kings Ransom.

She frowned seeing Jack interfering and glared coldly. She did not enjoy this at all. Quickly she jerked her whip back making it one before lashing it out at the pair, swiping it down hard as it split into two again, aiming both at Tala and Jack this time, frowning.

She hoped to separate Jack far enough from Tala so she could capture him. "Back off, old soldier. You are out of your league here. You cannot handle magic." She snapped coldly, reopening another dark portal under Tala to try and capture him, this time having strips of shadow come out as well to try and grab him.

"I will not be given the slip or to lose any of the wealth to come my way. I will not be denied my coming fortune!" she snapped as she watched to see if her portal would be successful, lashing her whip out again at Jack to try and keep him away from Tala.

The bandit woman frowned seeing this and tightened her jaw at his attempt to turn her attack against her. Frowning she quickly and easily ducked down into it, reopening a portal behind Tala and shot out, using her fist to his head before having four trindills to come out of the dark portal so to grab Tala for her.

"Finally, this will cost you, hold man." she hissed glaring at Jack then grinned. "Thank you so much for bringing royalty here. I have been so short on money these days." She said cooing and laughed having her dark shadows pull Tala into the portal before letting herself fall into the portal and closed it behind herself, not wanting Jack to follow them.

Her head popped out of shadow from one of the tree trunks, smirking behind her mask. "Let the King and Queen known I shall be sending word to them of my ransom I would like for their precious son." She said smirking and waved. "Tah tah, old fool." She cooed before vanishing back into the dark portal and it closed behind her quickly, leaving only silence as the wind blew softly.

It appeared she had forgotten about her two comrades that were now would or could be prisoners taken back by Jack and used if successful in some form to get Tala back.

Elsewhere in a very shadowed area the bandit woman would have the shadows move Tala over to a tree and make the shadows branch out and wrap around him and the tree, to pin his arms to his sides, not wanting him to get away before she got her money. A yawn escaped her lips so she stretched and stepped over and laid down in a spot where long leaves hung, forming a curtain on a rope, blocking off where she had her bed set up, preferring to sleep outdoors in her secure little hideaway than indoors.

As she slept she dreamed of all she would do with all the money she planned to collect from the King and Queen.

(nice very nice)

As the woman bandit slept she began to twist and turn in her sleep, wincing and muttering the word 'no' and 'help' as she struggled in her dream turned nightmare. She would then shoot awake gasping for air, panting and sweating. This was after Tala had left her dreams. Looking around and touching her neck she swallowed panting. A nightmare, was all it was, a nightmare. Looking out she checked making sure Tala was still there before retreating back behind her curtain.

Laying back down she began to drift back to sleep, getting under her warm blankets, hiding away from what she hoped would not be another nightmare. She had not heard anything only he had.

Outside the whisper of his name came softly on the wind in the shadows, whispering his name softly, a soft female voice coming to his side, whispering from out of sight in the darkness. "Oh.....Tala~" it sang softly to his ears almost like a lure to see what could happen, slowly doing as commanded, to draw slowly his mind under control.

"oh Tala~ If you truly want the woman dead....simply say. It shows it to me so~" the soft female voice cooed like a small dance as no form could be seen anywhere. "All desires can become true. You must only say the word~" the voice cooed softly like a hushed tone of a mother to a sleeping child.

The voice did not speak again to him, leaving him alone to his thoughts, feeling his hesitance towards altering the bandit woman's dreams again. The female voice giggled softly, letting a soft wind brush along his cheek and chin bone, like a soft touch.

The wind then began to play with his hair, the smell on the wind like that of roses, familiar roses from a time before. It was then a few small black rose petals fell that swirled, seeming to form a ghost like image of Rosa touching a tree, looking tired seemed to form for a few moments then was gone as the petals exploded into nothingness.

The wind slowly returned to normal as the petals had fallen into tiny pieces after showing the ghost like image to him, Rosin retreating from the area, having her fun and was afraid to go too far, not wanting the Demon King to punish her for going too far too fast with Tala, knowing he wanted to go little by little, to slowly ease his way into Tala to then have control over him and it not be noticeable till it was too late.

Rosin though was pouting, wanting her fun with Tala but knew that the Demon King's wrath was much worse than she would have fun playing with Tala so headed back through the shadows to return to her post and the Ice Lands to the Demon King.