Reim Empire

[Apollymi]

Nasira nodded her head swiftly, taking to the eastern wall of this palace in a manner which mimicked what she just saw Bakura doing. She wasn't really very sneaky herself, but the ease with which she could move her body, made her a fair bit better at transitioning into such positions than most people would be. Still as she watched him move along the wall apparently looking for a weak point, so that they could enter, she soon enough found herself tripping over a hidden string and almost bumping into the young lad before her. As she caught herself though she did a flip which brought her to the other side of the object and pointed down to it while remaining as close to the wall as possible. This would cause a large stone at the bottom of the wall to shift into an opening just big enough for a couple of small people to fit through and seemed to lead within the outer wall of the palace itself. She looked to Bakura and whispered. "You mean like this?"

While this happened their silent follower seemed to be walking in the crowd along the main street watching all. Soon enough though the lad jumped landing silently on top of a covered roof a ways out of sight of everyone. His unassuming nature and face drawing no attention with the action he saw the potential entry method and sighed. this was becoming a rather tedious job after all.

[Bloodedge]

Bakura's search yielded no results. He nearly resigned to suggesting a search for entry at one of the riskier walls, but before he could speak on the matter, Nasira pointed out an opening in the wall behind them. When he looked at said opening, Bakura thought that it had the appearance of a path made on purpose, but it was far too small for any proper adult. As long as this was the case, it was safe to enter. Bakura chose to lead the way, looking back as he crawled inside. "Shut it behind us. Don't want anybody thinkin' something's up. We gotta move fast."

[Apollymi]

Nasira was quite proud of herself in this moment, having stumbled upon an entry that would make sense for the pair of them to use. Since Bakura chose to lead she slipped into the path behind him, turning around backwards and pulling a string on the opposite end of the stone to force it back into place silently as they began to move within the walls of the palace. She had no idea where this path would lead to, but assumed somewhere within given its placement. "Who do you think made that?" she asked, knowing that it was far too small for what could be considered a normal size adult to move in and out of with any kind of comfort. Unbeknownst to them, the pathway from the wall would lead around and into a particular room behind a painting on the lower floor. This room, would appear abandoned and have the look of an old toy room.

While this happened their redheaded shadow waited a fair bit. Allowing the pair enough movement to clear his entry way, after all, he wouldn't want them turning around to notice that he'd slipped in behind them. After he was sure that they were far enough away to not see him enter, he followed the path they'd laid out, complete with entering the small hole and closing it up behind him all without being seen, by the general public or any guards along the wall.

[Bloodedge]

Though Nasira asked who he thought made the tunnel they traversed, Bakura remained silent. Soon, he was carefully stepping out into this strange room filled with old toys and the like. After inspecting his surroundings, he was able to draw a conclusion or two about the nature of this path. "... Yas," he said in a hushed tone as he picked a single doll off the floor. It looked to be in better condition than all the other items he'd noticed, yet its limbs were more easily moved than anything else he touched here. When he thought about it, a wicked grin crossed his face, and he pocketed the doll. "I didn't know she had this kinda side. She must've been as much of a hood rat as me."

[Apollymi]

Nasira hopped around this apparently abandoned playroom and heard what the male with her had to say about it. She found it odd that Yasmin would have created such a thing, but given she hadn't known the girl very long, perhaps it was simply her trying to imagine what the girl was like when she was much much younger which was the problem with this. "It's a bit shocking, but I suppose I could see her being a bit mischievous in the right circumstances." she mentioned as she moved forward, after all, she'd seen Yasmin's public bath choices, and as Yasmin had mentioned herself you could tell a lot about people by their bathing choices. She noted the item the boy had picked up, but like most simply assumed he was going to give it to Yasmin for whatever reason. Still the girl walked up to the closed door and pressed her ear against it, listening outside to try and figure out if they'd have the freedom to move about from here.

Meanwhile, the small redhead boy also made his way up this path stopping just shy of this apparent playroom and listening to the conversation of the pair inside. Of course, it would be necessary for him to remain until they cleared this room and then he'd be able to follow behind them. Of course, he peeked around the corner to keep an eye on the pair of them in the room. 'Hm... these are some strange people.'

[Bloodedge]

Bakura followed Nasira to the door she listened through, keeping an ear open for any outside noises as well. "We'll wanna keep going in this direction. The good info should be this way," he whispered. Afterwards, he fell silent, as there were passing footsteps in the hall. Voices accompanied these footsteps.

"King Sorio says the representative should be coming some time tomorrow. We have to make sure everything is in order for when he shows. I'm not really a fan of doing all that, but I guess I'll go with it. You take the bathrooms; I'll clear out this old shit hole for his stay." It seemed this male voice was encroaching upon the toy room Bakura and Nasira inhabited. "Shit! We gotta move!" Without a moment of hesitation, Bakura darted for the path they had entered through, but the moment he moved toward it, he saw the face of another individual. "Wha-... Who..."

[Apollymi]

"Alright." Nasira said, only to be stunned when apparently people began moving this way. She was also on the same train of thought as the boy and ran for the way they came in only to be confronted by the face of another individual. But rather than think too much about it the boy moved away and began what would have been a rather swift exit. "You'll get caught if you don't just get in here." he said rather calmly. It seemed that he wasn't at all pressed by this situation. But Nasira was somewhat stunned by this other boy's appearance. Still she'd be more than ready to slip into the space with the boy and hide along with Bakura if both of them were ready to do so. After all, she'd rather not get caught here, and there would be plenty of time to question their apparent follower.

[Bloodedge]

The door began to open, leaving very little time to react. However, this mysterious boy's words rang in his head. With this warning in mind, and with so little time to spare, he dashed behind Nasira and aimed to shove her into the opening. He would then stand directly in front of it, only to be seen by a very muscular blonde male in the garbs of a royal guard. 'Shit!' Bakura thought as the man became immediately alert, charging at the boy with a spear. Said weapon was held against his throat to keep him against the wall while the man spoke. "The hell is this!? How did a kid get in here?"

[Apollymi]

Nasira found herself being pushed and this led to her tumble into the corridor she'd so recently climbed out of. Still, the young boy within caught the girl and pressed a single finger to his mouth to keep her from making any unnecessary noise. While this happened, Bakura was apparently held up outside and this was something to Nasira. She moved... towards the opening but knew when she got there that, Bakura was standing in front of it. 'Damn... this is bad.' she thought, immediately moving as if she wanted to go back out. It seemed that the boy with her understood her feelings in this and slipped up behind her quietly speaking. "If you do what you're thinking, you'll get caught too, and his capture will be for nothing." he said directly into the girl's ear. Besides this he was still rather calm and calculating waiting to see how this would play out.

[Bloodedge]

"Don't give me that silence, kid! Where does an intruder like you come from?" the man persisted. Of course, Bakura had been caught numerous times in his younger years, so this exact moment gave him a fair bit of nostalgia. As such, he smiled at the large male. "How else? In tru-da window." For obvious reasons, the guard did not take kindly to this. He withdrew his spear, but used this moment to grab Bakura by the throat, pick him up, and slam him against the wall at eye level. "Didn't think you'd explain. Whatever. We'll get that out of you," he said while the white-haired boy grasped at the arm holding him. Wasting no more time, the guard decided to drag the boy along with him, likely to have him dealt with right away.

[Apollymi]

As the man slammed Bakura into the wall, Nasira grew visibly agitated. "I can't abandon him like this, and if I go back alone, what sort of friend am I?" she whispered. This lead the young man with her to know it wouldn't be long before she did something completely irrational. To stop her from doing anything to brash, he was willing to risk himself instead, but as he went to grab the girl's arm she'd already popped out. As soon as the man now carrying the young boy turned himself around so as to preserve the location of their secret entrance. "Wait." he whispered as the girl popped out and aimed to jump the guard where he stood. She too had on occasion been in tussles with guards and aimed to hit the man in his ankles to get him to release the young man he was now holding. Meanwhile the red haired boy remained where he was ever calm. He knew this man would turn, so he couldn't move from where he was. With these two being caught here, he would likely be forced into a situation which required him to defend them all, which he wouldn't be able to do. 'They are going to require rescue.' he thought calculating how this would end and figuring he had at least a small window to work with.

[Bloodedge]

As the man walked toward the room's exit, Nasira came his way with a strike aimed at his ankle. This resulted in him stopping his forward movement, but nothing more. "Another one?" he asked in rhetoric as he turned to see Nasira. He quickly swung outward with a sweeping movement of his spear. Whether it struck the girl's head or was avoided, he would release his hold of it and reach out to grab her as well. In the meantime, he would look toward where she came from. "So you entered through this room... Got another munchkin here?"

[Apollymi]

Nasira soon found herself ducking a spear, but in the action that did it, she found herself directly in this man's line of capture. Grabbed up she also seemed a bit closer to unphased, but she was also a sort of classically abused child, this wouldn't be the first time she had been captured in such a way either. "Munchkin?" she questioned this guards word but said nothing else. There was a blankness to this girl's eyes not normally present there she'd even stopped struggling against her capture as it wouldn't aid her.

The red headed boy waited, slowing descending down his sleeves were the end of a rope dart. If it was just this one, so long as it was only one, he could probably kill the man and get all of them out before it was a problem. He just needed to wait for the opportune moment, he hoped it would present itself soon, lest he have to do something he should find objectionable to complete his mission here.

[Bloodedge]

"That's right... Munchkin." As he spoke, the guard moved closer and closer to the entrance these two had used to breach the threshold of this room. When he was close, he crouched toward the hole, holding Bakura and Nasira out in front of him while inspecting it. In the meantime, the man he had been speaking to outside came into the room, along with another pairing of guards. "Dio, what's all the yelling abou-... huh? Kids? Who let kids in here?" one of the men said. "Nothing to worry about. I've got 'em. We'll take both down to interrogation, but first, close this thing up and seal it."

[Apollymi]

If this moment had been less serious Nasira would have protested. After all, she was an adult of 20 years old, to be called a child by this overgrown brute would normally cause her to fuss or at least pout, as her earlier realization that she'd never have a proper chest did. But this moment would be left as she gave a quick glance in Bakura's direction, at the very least they'd been captured together and this way she could help keep an eye on this young lad until such a time as they either figured out how to get out of this, or were rescued whichever happened first. She supposed it for the best they believed them to be children, after all, most people weren't so horrible as to do anything to grotesque to children who found themselves in compromising situations. Though considering where this country's princess had ended up she had little hope for a good ending to this moment.

As this man approached the kill was being prepared in the mind of this boy. It would be seamless... allowing him to penetrate this man's eye with the tip of his weapon straight into his brain, forcing him to let go of the two he'd captured and then they'd slip back out the way they came. But soon his killing intent and concentration were broken, by the entrance of yet another, and then a pairing. 'This room is too small, and there are too many of them.' thought this boy and he retracted his weapons and disappeared back down the tunnel. He was obviously about to go introduce himself to the pair of dungeon capturers who had arrived earlier, and their point of entry was going to be sealed up so they'd have to think of a better way to get inside. 'This conflict is only going to be worse.' the young man thought as he rather quickly made his way out and began moving effortlessly through the crowd to get back to the place they'd come from.