#sunandash

“Why you repeat we?? Big bossy and meanie bunny lady!”

 The sun was still high on the sky when Neraya arrived at her destination. The palace’s walls stretched far up towards the small clouds, topping every other building near it, in all the city as if it was trying to reach for the sun. A warm shudder went down the edenians spine when she approached the front, where she saw two guards. Beyond them there was another door, where four more were stationed. She knew, she would have to get past them to get into the palace and meet Shao Kahn head on. He would finally have to  answer for his actions in Edenia before her.  Slowly, with her cape tugged around herself, the woman trailed along the walls, hiding in the shadows, that hid her well from curious and guarding eyes lingering upon her very surrounding. Time for action. For the next few moments, the edenian did not move, eyes closed and pressed against the wall. The silence allowed her to dive deeper into the sounds coming to her ears. Wind, water, voices. The main three sounds she heard. Wind from the right, Water from within the courtyard, voice from...besides her? Quickly, Neraya opened her eyes, peeking around the curve of the stone walls, that were still warm from the sun shining at it all day. A patrol was on the way, from behind the castle. She’d have but a moment to act now. A faint, blue glow emerged from her skin, more precisely, from the markings on it, throwing a little shine against the stones. Within a few moments, the royal castle was wrapped into thick layers of fog, making it look like it was up in the sky from the inside. Surely, that didn’t stay unnoticed by the guards, that, as soon, as the fog reached the inside of the courtyard, barely saw each other anymore. Soon, one after the other fell unconscious, each one with a thud against the pavement. She had done it! She was in the courtyard! Now, all that counted was to get inside the palace. Confidently, Neraya stepped towards the door, but in her eagerness, she had forgotten to secure the area behind her. As soon as her hand touched the handle, she could feel something sharp piercing into her back from behind. Neraya did not dare to turn around or make any movement at all, so she only remained in her position. “State your bussssinessss, intruder.” a sharp voice hissed behind her and she could feel something wrapping around her arm from behind. “I- uhm...” she swallowed, then shook her head.  “I mean no harm. I request to talk with the Kahn.”  There was mumbling behind her back, alas, she did not dare to even move her head still. Finally, the guards, as she assumed, seemed to have come to a conclusion and now, a dull object pressed against her back. It was most likely made of wood, so the edenian assumed it to be the other side of a speer of some sort. “Move! Open the door!” the voice demanded and she followed the command.  “The emperor will decide on your fate himssself.” this was the only explanation, that she was given, when she was driven through the halls. One of the guards behind her yelled something in a strange language to another, who hurried away, towards a big door at the end of a hallway. The palace was fascinating from the inside, even more than it was from the outside already and she wanted to stop and look around some times, had she not been driven with a stick in her back. At some point, in a hall, they stopped and her hands were tied up with a rope. Neraya let it happen, since had she not, they would have attacked and someone getting hurt was not the goal of this mission. It took some time, that the edenian spent with looking around the room, examining the plants and admiring the structure of it, until the hissing voice from before said:  “My emperor...this woman claimsss she meanss no harm to usss...we thought you might want to take judgement yourssself.”