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"Hey Kyli, where are we going?"

"Don't worry about it, Roache. Just follow me, and you'll be fine."

Kyli and Roache strolled around the city in a nonchalant manner. The people, the guards, the shop keepers, no one had any expectations of what the events that were to follow.

"Alright Roache, remember last week when we got the meat from the keeper down the road from here? Well when I start running, we're going to split up. You're going to take that alley. Follow it to the end and make a right. I'll meet you there, and we should be able to shake the guards if you follow my lead."

"No. Kyli no! You know that I'm no good at stealing. I thought we were just going to relax today!"

"Nope. I hope you're ready, because I'm gone."

At that moment, Kyli picked up sausage links from a vendor's stand and gave them to Roache. "Kyli, no. We're not going to do this today." Kyli grabbed another chain of links and took off.

"Kyli! What..?!"

"You! Thief!" the vendor yelled. Guards patrolling the streets snapped to alert and began running towards Kyli and Roache.

Roache threw the links and began running up the street. He was ducking and dodging through the crowd when he finally reached the alley that Kyli mentioned earlier. Since last week, it had been blocked off by crates. The vendor near that alley was currently restocking.

Roache continued running up the street. He ducked down an alley that ran parallel to the blocked one. He took a right, thinking that it would lead him to the same area. As he ran down the alley that was shadowed by the buildings, he came to a dead end. Roache was trapped between the walls and guards.

"Scum. You want to steal, you'll lose a hand!" shouted a guard.

Roache was terrified. He knew this whole plot was a horrible idea. The guards began charging and Roache cowered in the corner. He grabbed a nearby stick off of the ground and pointed it at the guards. "Stop!" he shouted adamantly. A light frost began creeping along the ground. The guards ran across the frozen ground when the frost snared their legs. Roache looked up at the guards and was amazed at what he saw.

"It can't be," one of the guards revered. "His eyes...they're...they're..."

Roache's eyes had the tell-tale sign of the snowflake.

"Up here," a familiar voice called. Roache saw that Kyli was inside of house, hanging out of a window. He jumped up and some garbage cans, took a few steps up the opposite wall and jumped to Kyli. She pulled him up through the window and they took off together.