All Chapters of The Tale of Daemonica: Chapter 11 - Chapter 15

----------   A gentle breeze blew on the top of the rock, and its

When she finally caught her breath, she rolled onto her side and coughed up what was left of the water. After a while her breathing settled. Her fingers touched the damp sand, the sun warm in her back. She looked up at the cloudless sky, then at her hands. They had been cut, and there were bloody wheels on her wrists left by the rope, but there were no handcuffs. Daemonica took another deep breath of damp air.

Daemonica reached the gate just in time. The sun was already setting, and that meant they were about to close it, and she knew from this morning that it would stay that way until dawn. This was also related to the traffic in the gate itself. No one entered the city