-Father! - Skhana yelped, sprinting at full speed toward the seven newcomers and launching herself directly onto the massive blond man at the head of the crowd.
The warrior reflexively caught her slender frame as she wrapped her arms and legs tightly around him while weeping bittersweet tears on his shoulder– Oh! Thank our Gods you are finally here!
She had barely unlatched her limbs from her progenitor, and she was lovingly staring up at him through her wet eyelashes when her coy smile was wiped off her face by the force of a stinging slap.
-How dare you do this to us? – Souna roared and Skhana blinked repeatedly in deep bafflement. Yet her mother’s initial and apparent outraged fit would instantly dissolve into a pool of her own affected sobs as the girl was immediately pulled into t
