[Rosekitten]

Among the three that were ordered to destroy the village was Alton, the only reason he had come to this damned village was to see if rumors of a girl with the natural gift were true. From the energy he could read from her it was very true, though hardly refined in any way. For the moment he allowed the leader of this little group to escape with the girl, he thought for certain was the same from the raid over two years ago, though she hardly acted like the princess. There was probably reasons for that but it could be dealt with later. A few villagers were slain on the spot, it couldn't be helped in the least.

Even as the buildings burned and cries for help rang out he was debating on his course of actions, it came down to now or never... Letting at least a half a hour go by he finally started to walk, his first target was the younger of the two guards they had with them. He was mere seconds from bringing his blade down upon another villagers head when he seemed to freeze in his tracks. Dropping the weapon he grabbed his neck before he spun to see what was even going on. He tried to gurgle out his words but it was useless as he started choking on his own blood, his eyes and ears even leaking the very same red liquid that kept one alive.

The villager wasn't sure what was happening even the few others who were cowering at the fact there were two in the same area wasn't sure what to make of this. The whole time he kept the hood of his robes up covering his face, only a few strands of silvery hair escaped from it's shadows. He had to hurry though before Maven had too much of a lead, though he knew the leader of this band would hardly be in a hurry... probably planning some sort of act with the young girl before turning her over.

The second of the guards was just as easy to get rid of with a unexpected attack, though he wasn't as nice to this one as a sudden sound of bones snapping could be heard as the guard fell to his knees in pain. "WHY! Your on our side... " He gasped out before another scream escaped his mouth as another bone seemed to crumble and snap. Alton grinned a little his eyes fixed upon his target. "I've never been on you side..." He hissed out sounding more then annoyed that he would think such a thing.

After these acts were done and both men were dead he mounted the horse he had rode here on and took to the road to catch up to Maven and the girl. It took at least a hour to catch up to the two of them, though he never strayed from the path so it was easy to find them as well. Though Maven seemed to question the rider when he approached alone.

"Were are the others?" He said with a glare towards Alton, though the hood made it impossible to see that Alton was all but smiling at his tone. "They'll catch up, they wanted to prolong their little game back there with the remaining females." He shrugged a little as Maven turned his head facing forward. "fair enough, you didn't want to stay?" He seemed to change his tone to hint at something. Alton sighed a little. "Alas I break most of my toys too quickly to enjoy such pleasures." He laughed slightly once he was done speaking. This was almost too easy, though he'd have to wait till they stopped to set camp up to try anything further of getting this girl away from Maven, he was't as much of a pushover as the other two.