A heated encounter

"Wait up!" I gasp trying to keep up with Quinara as she charges into danger, alas she does not and by the time I reach the city gates Quinara has already charged into the burning town. I couldn't say the idea of running into a burning town exactly thrilled me but knowing Quinara is in there forces my hand. Although if Quinara did need pulling out of a fire I don't really know how I would be able to do that alone, but regardless I couldn't let her do this alone.

I taste ash on my tongue as the town burns around me, the heat near unbearable as the buildings that encompass me radiate with orange flames. The lights from the fire illuminate the path ahead and it's a good thing as the black smoke covers the sky, it could be midday or midnight and I wouldn't know the difference. "Quinara!!" I call out into the raging inferno and then and only then does it hit me, I stop moving and look around at the burning town. "This is just like my dream" I say shuddering, how was this possible? I begin looking for the shadow figures from the dream but I couldn't see any which was reassuring but didn't fully alleviate how unsettling this was.

I follow the path from my dreams that led me to the town square, on the way I stop to look through the building where I first saw the shadow figures and this time I do see figures but they were not shadows, they were orcs. I see through the burning wreckage a large orc toss a lifeless corpse into the blaze, despite the overbearing heat a chill runs down my spine, my old fears of orcs resurfacing. I needed to get out of here, but I wasn't leaving without Quinara. I begin sprinting down the cobbled streets, if the dream was to be believed she would be in the town square in front of the banner... The banner that left her shaking... "OH FUCK NO!" I say hoping desperately that what my gut was telling me was wrong.

I rush into the town square to find Quinara like my dream she's in front of the banner, however unlike my dream she's not alone. Two orcs hold her back by the arms while the third talks to her, "Quinara fancy seeing you here" the orc says mockingly basically confirming my fears. That banner wasn't just any orc clans banner, it was Quinaras clans banner, Quinara tries to wrestle free but with two orcs similar in size to her holding her back she is unable to. "LET ME GO!" She protests, desperately trying to wrench herself free, I unsheathe my sword drawing the attention of the group. "Runt run!" Quinara commands, and as much as it pained me to go against her wishes I wasn't about to let them take her. I charge forward only to get sucker punched in the jaw, I had been focused on Quinara so much that I hadn't paid attention to my surroundings, "NO!!" Quinara screams in anguish as I collapse to the floor holding my face, the fourth orc towers over me, he leans down and delivers another punch to my head and with it the world fades to black.