That night Rev slept in that open field gazing up at the stars. When he awoke, he got right to work. Seeing the gigantic building in the distance, he started walking towards them. In time his stomach began to rumble, but the city was is clearer view. It's not like Rev wasn't used to going days without eating. He reached the city, but a wall stood in his way

"here we go again," Rev says

The wind blast himself over the wall falling on top of a building. He recomposes himself, lifting his head as he takes a look around. He suddenly notices that he's attracted the attention of people below.

"what is that thing" one of the people yells from below

Rev runs off, jumping from roof top to roof top. He finds a way down as he lowers himself into an ally way and realises his cloak is torn up from his prevues landing in the tree, none the less he puts the hood on. He can't help but notice the terrible smell. He covers his nose and walks along the ally way peering out into an open crowd. The people don't seem to pay him any attention, as they're all on the move. He sneaks into the crowd, stumbling over himself as he tries not to get trampled. He then smells a much more pleasant smell, one he was unfamiliar with, but he couldn't help be but attracted towards it. He made his way to what he thought the source of the smell was. He came face to face with a bakery.

"what do you want kid" the man at the counter asks

Rev expands his hand toward the bread, the man notices the color of his skin and the scares on his hands

"here kid," the man says as he hand him the bread with a look of pity on his face.

"Now get out of here, you're making my customer uncomfortable," he says

Rev is too entranced with the bread to notice everyone is staring at him. He calming walks out of the bakery the bread with a smile on his face. He spends the day walking around the city going deeper and deeper. He looks up as the building around him gets taller and taller. He ends up sleeping in an ally way that night. In his sleep, he tosses and turns as that night plays back in his head, like many nights before. It feels as if he has returned to that exact moment, sensing the freezing cold wind and tasting his mother's blood in his mouth. Rev awakes is a cold sweet to a faint voice.

"hey you alive," the voice says

Rev's eyes shoot open, their crimson color lighting up. Rev is face to face with an elf officer he see his hand extend and the light in the body begins to gather.

"what the hell are you" the elf officer say as he back up"hey get over here," he yells to the other officers

Rev runs out of there into an open crowd. The officers chase him. He weaves between the people, his instincts now fully taken over. Humans in the crowd get in the way and trip the elf officers as they try to chase rev.

"get your dirty human hand off of me"one of the officer yells

.One of the office catches up to Rev extending to grab Rev's cloak, but he slips out of it and disappears into the crowd. He makes his way into another ally way and climbs up the building. He reaches the top. Seeing that the officers have lost him, he lies on his back, staring into the sky. He releases if he wants to go unnoticed, he's going to need to cover up better. He pears down at the people blow taking note of what they're wearing. Then looking at how messed up his cloth looked.

"where can i get cloths" he thinks. "Maybe i can ask someone"

He runs that thought through his head, but seeing how most of the people that have seen him have frighten reaction he doesn't think asking someone will work. He decided to follow people around instead to see where they get the clothes. He is much more used to navigating through crowds now, so this shouldn't be a problem. He makes his way down, making sure that the elf that chased him where gone first. He then merges into the crowd looking building that has cloths in display like how he saw bread on display in the bakery. Rev legs begin to get tired as he's spent hours of the day walking around. The crowd begins to die out as the sun comes down, But Rev notices that other hooded figures coming out and walking towards an ally way. He decided to follow them. As he makes his way into a dimly lit underground room, he begins to question if going down here was a good idea. He's in too deep now. He can't turn around as there's still more people coming in, he is forced to move forward. The room comes to a dead silent as a man standing in the middle of a circle trench begins to talk.

"place your bets now...we have four fights lined up tonight" his voice is so loud as it echoes through the room.

Rev makes his way to the front now on the edge of the pit

"bets are closed," the man says as he makes his way out of the pit

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Then Rev sees to human men enter the pit.

"Fight" the man from before yells out and the crowd of people start to cheer and yell.

Rev watches as the two men begin to throw punches at each other. Then one of the men disapears and reappears behind the other man, sweeping his legs from under him.

"what was that? " Rev thinks

Mean wild, half the crowd yells in angry while the other half cheers. Rev is still baffled at what had just happened. Then again, it happened both the men begin to disappear and reappear in different places. It's all happening so fast, but the more Rev looks at them, the better he can see their movements as his eyes begin to follow them.

"maybe it is some kind of other power," he thinks to himself

He tries to focus in on one of them but he can't see any light on his body like his seen before.

"why can't I see it" he mutters to himself

to his surprise, the man next to him response "there using the skill dash"

"oh ok" rev says

He thinks to himself, "skill?" he thinks back to the farm as he believes he heard some of the humans mention that word before, but he never asked what it meant. He has heard the word dash, as that is commonly what the guard would say to Rev as he tried to escape.

He remembers it clearly "don't dash away from me" he would say.

As Rev was lost in thought, he hears a bell which snapped him back into reality.

"winner, winner" the loud man from before says

Rev looks down into the pit, seeing that one of the men has been knocked out

"dam i had my bet on that guy," the man beside him said

he looks down at Rev still cloak on "what about you, you win anything"

Rev looks up at him, his white hair drooping over his eyes. "What do you mean win?"

The man sees his white hair. "Is he an old man" he thinks to himself then answers his question

"well if you bet a fighter and they win, then you get your money back and then some"

Now money was a word Rev had heard many times before he learned it was the reason most of the humans were working at the farm because they failed to pay back money that owed.

"oh no, i don't have any money," Rev says

The man beside him laughs. "Ain't that the truth man I wish I could fight those guys and make some real money"

"the guys fighting make money?" Rev asks

The man explains, "well of course, the more people bet the more money the winner makes. Hey by the way, my name is Cron. I know this isn't exactly the type of place you give your name out, but you don't seem like the type to snitch"

Snitch Rev had heard the word be didn't know what it fully meant, but he did know it was something bad

"no i don't snitch," Rev says as he recalls human saying this as a way to reassure each other

Cron laughs and thinks to himself, "I can't tell if this guy is older than me or younger"

The night goes on Rev watching the fighter trying their hardest. Rev watches closely, and the closer he looks he starts to see light in people far fainter than any elf he has seen, but it was still there. As he looked around at the cloaked people, he could see the faint light in them all. Eventually, the fights were over and people scattered.

the man from before yells out "Next fight in 2 days"

Rev spends his night and in an ally way once again. When he wakes up, his stomach feels like a void.

"I need some food" he says in a sluggish tone.

He gets up and begins to climb up the building. When he reaches to top, he looks at the crowd below, trying to scout out to see if there are any elf officers around. The coast is clear as he leaps from roof top, to roof top when he catches the whiff of something meaty. Rev can't decide if it's a good smell or a bad smell. None the less, he tries to find the source of the smell. He sees a bit of smoke rising from an ally way; he gets close to the edge and takes a look over. He sees a bunch of kids huddles around some light as what seems to be a rat on a stick over the light. Rev back at the farm had seen many rats and he can't say the thought of eating one didn't cross his mine but he had never actually fallowed through with it. He's more curious by what that light is, it different from the light he sees in people. He decided to climb down at a slow pace and talk to the kids.

"Hey what's that light"

The kids freeze for a moment, then move back there, hands shaking and eyes looking for an escape path. The path behind them is blocked off, so they look at each other.

one of the kids says "we have no choice. We have to fight" he charges Rev with his fist clenched.

Rev dodges the punch and trips the kid, having him fall flat on his face.

Rev tries to clear his throat "am not here to hurt you or take your rat, I just want to know what that light is where's it coming from"

The kids relax, but don't let the guard down. The smallest of them digs through what seems to be trash and pulls out a can of juice.

"here mister" his voice is sickly

Rev is hesitant but takes it preceding to drink the whole thing. It had been a while sense he had anything to drink. The young kid looks at rev seeing his skin and hair, Rev notices the stares.

"did your mommy and daddy die to" the young on days

Rev freezes, thinking back to that night. One of the last things he heard was his mother's voice yelling his name

"Rev!"

He snapped out of it, lowering his gaze. "They were killed by someone" Rev says

the kids get closer and all at once say "same"

Rev looks up to the kids, dirt covered faced. Then he smells something disturbing. The kids turn back

"The rat is burning," one of the kids yells

Rev walks over to pick it up, but he reaches too far.

"This light its...so warm"

The kids stand back with a look of horror on their faces as they yell "YOUR HAND ON FIRE! "

"On fire?" Rev says in a confused tone.

The kids scumble together and try to find things in the trash to put the fire out. Rev Looks at the burning rat in his hand, his eyes lighting up as they mimic the light coming from the flame. Rev looks closer at the flame and drops the rat as he rases his hand to the sky. He steadies his breath, feeling his own light pour out of his as it runs up his arm into the flame. In a flash, the flame leaves his hand propelled into the air, glowing brightly in the dark ally way. The kids stopped what they were there doing, feeling the warmth of the flame in the air.

"How did you...do that?" one of the kids asks as admires the flame.

Then, as quick as it had reached such brightness and warmth, it fades away.

"WHAT WAS THAT" all the kids yells