<span style="color: #BFBFBF">Levi sighs, she might as well do <span style="font-style: italic">something</span> before the final moments of being here are gone. Not that she cared much, she just didn't like using up precious time by being a sitting duck. She gets up and decides to look for the guards who're supposed to round up the youth. She goes through some alleys, streets, stores, a church - of which has always been empty - and winds up at some neighborhoods. The guards were banging on the doors of people's houses, demanding the parent's children to be forked over. Some guards were left in charge of making sure the gathered participants don't run off. As she watches the scenario of what seems to be another annoying drama with a parent arguing loudly with the guard at the door, the parent was then warned to follow the commands or else they'd barge in the house. <span style="font-style: italic">Ugh, too noisy.</span> Levi thought quietly to herself. If anyone were to know just how senseless she is, they'd reprimand her for being so heartless, except for the guards. Not that Levi cared, and nor will Levi ever understand the stress that comes with the separation between family members, friends, and relatives. The main things that depresses her with separation is the separation of the prime things she needed for life; food, space, shelter, and her flexible and intelligent mind - the things that are running out in <span style="font-style: italic">this</span> town, along with her mind that is getting dull and impatient with the waiting.<br/><br/>A guard walks over to her. He spoke in an assertive tone, not rude, nor filled with care. "You, get back in the group." Levi just shrugged and went over to the other people. She crosses her arms and shifts her weight to her right leg as she attempts to figure out a ground to work on once her group is sent out <span style="font-style: italic">I wonder if there's a limited amount of Energie meant for each town. And if it's so limited, with the lands dying, there's really no hope of trying to survive without stealing another's Energie, we might have to do that if we can't find out our own and if we're about to die from the possible lack of resources in this desert.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">So, Energie is what makes the grass grow. Surely there still must be rain, cactuses, snakes, trees and mud out there to cool off? But yes, they'd be extremely hard to find ... And to find out where our own have gone to, there were five groups of bandits known in the further areas just outside the other town borders from Arenae. The Midnight Horde, the Crusaders, the Crimson Rats, the Iron Sigils, and the Gilded Edicts.</span> Within the long years before today, Levi remembers being in a different town and reading a newspaper left on the street. It had mentioned those five names, and as childish as the names were, she had encountered at least five individuals who had tried sneaking in Arenae. They were well clothed and had knives and other weapons. Levi would follow them within the nights, but was extremely lucky to not get caught when there were more than just one bandit prowling through the streets. One night, she failed to get herself the access to the town's hidden area of where they'd place the energy in it's hold. One bandit was in to something, perhaps relating to the location of such an area, but there were just too many bandits at the time, and it was quite risky. She was hiding in an alley, having only the darkness and shadows to hide in. She had been surrounded and almost spotted until she had finally decided to give up and escape behind their backs when they had turned away from the alley. She had headed back home before the sun had risen and exposed her in daylight to the thieves.</span>