<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=9845.msg488191#msg488191">Quote from: Swedish Steel on 14-12-2007, 08:34:40</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">She sensed their presence at the mouth of the alley even before she heard their crunching footsteps in the snow. There were no way out except the same way she had come, a path now blocked by two monsters. As much as she trusted her adoptive father, she wondered if this wasn't to much for him to handle. Two against one...unless...<br/>"Come here, little mouse. Let's have a look at you." She could hear the cruel joy in their laughter, they had her cornered.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/><em>Two of them...</em>She thought and as her mind worked she looked at them her eyes going from one to the other.<br/><br/>"Wh-what do you want?" Mia said, forcing her voice into a tremble hiding behind the image of a frightened victim they had cornered. She already saw a few possibilities but no-one of them were to her liking. For this to work she had to be closer to them... get them out of balance.<br/><br/>"I-I can give y-you money.... p-please j-just don't hurt me..." Her hand went to her inner pocket where her knife was and her hand gripped its hilt ready in case they was to jump her right there.<br/>