The horizon was only starting to brighten up, but in the ruined city there was already movement. A girl, barely into womanhood was flying around with her brilliantly white wings. They really brought out the contrast between them, and her dirty body. She seemed to be looking for something in the destroyed buildings. The girl was of course Seraphine. She was preparing for the road to Castleburg.


    "C''mon where is it? I just only need one and I''m good to go." She was mumbling under her breath.


    After digging through the rubble a bit more, she finally found what she was looking for. In her hand was a banged up metal flask.


    "Ha-ha, I finally found one."


    Then she flew back to the campsite. There were a lot of new things all around the place. More meat was missing from the Hellhound, some of it roasting, most of it packed away. She even found some seasoning and salt to use.


    "Okay so let''s see if I found everything I wanted: lighter check, talon-knife check, backpack check, as much food as I can carry check, a large part of a car covering ''thingy'' against rain check, pot for boiling stuff check, some extra shirts and pants check and check and finally a flask full of disgusting blood check."


    Sera packed everything together, had breakfast, drank a mouthful of blood, nearly vomited and flew into the air. She was finally leaving behind the remains of Newber the only home she ever knew. In the air she looked down on the destruction one last time, then she turned her back toward the dawn and never looked back. It was time to move on.


    While flying she thought back on her preparations throughout the night. After the Sun went down she lay on the ground for a couple hours, but she didn''t feel safe enough to sleep, so instead went to prepare for today.


    She looked around the ruins trying to find useful things. She gathered a lot, that could be very helpful throughout the journey, sadly her carrying capacity wasn''t infinite.


    ''Carrying capacity...It reminds me of those games I used to play before enlisting in the Academy. The characters in those games could carry an abnormal amount of items, multiple big weapons which only an Evolved could lift, or 100s of wheels of cheese. I wouldn''t mind an inventory like that.''


    She had to leave a lot of stuff behind. For example she couldn''t bring anything for her cycle.


    Sera looked at the direction of the attack but what she saw didn''t make sense. There was nothing on the wall there, or was there?


    ''Its like the wall has eyes, that''s kind of weird.''


    Then she remembered something about the animals that lived in the wild before the apocalypse, there were a type of lizard and some water creature that could change their color so they could hide from their preys as well as their predators.


    The eyes moved on the wall and seemed to focus on her. She didn''t thought about it much and attacked the wall with eyes on it. There was a weird scream like sound, then she heard her Watch in her head.


    ''You have killed a Venomous Chameleon, a Tainted of the 2nd Tier! Your Soul is Nourished!''


    She looked at the dead 1 meter long lizard monster and was thinking: ''Venomous eh? Thankfully I didn''t chance it. That could''ve been bad.''


    Then Sera looked around the broken down home and a realization hit her.


    ''If I didn''t notice this first one, then how do I know there was only one?''


    Suddenly venomous tongues started to rain down on her, they had spikey tips and moved with the speed of a whip.


    She fell on one knee and covered herself with her wings.


    ''I couldn''t just be wrong once. No, there needs to be dozens of them.''