Astra (http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a248/Faith_knight/mage-3.jpg) was walking backfrom the marketplace after getting a few of the herbs that she had needed but were not ready in the herb garden for her studies. was dressed in her normal attire of a simple dark blue dress that had slits up the sides so that she could walk freely. Her silvery blond hair was pulled back into two ponytails on eather side of her head. She also had a cloak drapped around her figure to keep the sun from blistering her skin. As she walked back towards the palace gates she stumbled over someone's foot. She quickly recovered and apologies only to find herself facing several large men.<br/><br/>"Im sorry sir," she said as she looked up at the man she had tripped over. She didn't like the look in their eyes. "Well well well boys look what we have here," she heard him say. She held her breath uncontiously as she watched him come towards her. She hated it when people tried to bully her. She knew her master would be trying to work on one of his experiments and she wanted to be there to make sure everything went smoothly. She bit her lip as he came towards her.<br/><br/>"Sir im sorry but i really must be going please excuse me," she said as she turned to leave but someone grabbed her shoulder and threw her against the wall. "Well girl sorry just isn't going to get you out of this little situation you see, i already had an injury on the foot you seemed to have tripped over and you aggrivated it again, now your going to have to do something to make it feel better," he said smirking as his buddies crowded in around her and the leader.<br/><br/>Astra bit her lip and shook her head and said "Sir i really am sorry, please if you let me go ill get the healer to look at your foot," she was silenced as a hand was put on the wall beside her shoulder. She held her bag close to her as she looked at the man. She could smell the faint trace of alcohol on his breath and clothing. She mentally winced as she thought<em> Great just what i need a drunk man trying to hurt me</em>She looked at his budies and saw they all seemed to have a glassy eyed look. She thought about what her Master had taught her so far about magic and knew one little flar spell and they all would be stunned quite quickly and she could get away. She took a deep breath and started to say the words that would bring it about.<br/><br/>As Astra did this her skin soaked in all the light it could around her. She didn't let it show what she was doing or they would have been ready or stopped her by a simple slap to the face. She was no master of her magic yet so the simplest disturbance and she would have to start over. As the man above her moved in to touch her she released the Flar spell by expelling the light from all over her. Her hair intensified it since it was silvery. The men cried out and she slipped under his arm and ran holding her package close. She was grateful they had not noticed what she had done.<br/><br/>She ran until she was sure they had not followed her. When Astra was able to see the Mage tower that she and her master used she felt ice run through her veins as she saw smoke. She ran past the gates that had opened when she was close enough. She ran as fast as her feet would carry her. She didn't seem to leave a foot print and seemed to be flying over the surface of the ground. Some that saw her run would have sworn she didn't touch the ground the moment she saw the smoke. She bounded up the stairs to the lab that was now in a reck. She dropped her bag of herbs at the door and went to her Master.<br/><br/>"Master Raiga, are you alright?" she said as she looked over him and checked for any wound. She looked and soon found a cut across his right temple. She reached up to see how bad it was and winced slightly at the sight of the blood. She with her left hand pulled out a cloth and transfered it to her right and dabbed the wound. "Master Raiga, why didn't you wait for me?" she aske softly as she went about trying to stop the bleeding.<br/><br/>(modified to add picture link)