Outside of the bar not too far away. A young girl was heading towards the housing area while a drunken man kept shadowing her from a safe distance away.

The man had seen her in the bar when she stepped on the stage and had his eyes on her ever since. As she slipped away after her performance, so did he.

Walking amongst the houses and greeting the night shift guards she was happily humming her tune and genuinely happy over her performance today, she had finally gotten the courage to perform in front of a larger audience and her reception had been the best she could ask for.

The guards clanking armor grew more distant and as it disappeared she suddenly came to a halt as she was pulled in to a Alley way.

With her mouth covered from behind she tried to struggle free until a knife appeared in front of her eyes.

"Make a move or a noise and I'll cut you in ways you can't imagine."

She immediately stopped fighting and the man pulled her deeper in to the Alley.

"Such a smart girl. There's no need to make this hard when it can be so enjoyable for both of us."

Aleyn, still in the bar had just finished her drink. Slightly tipsy but still very much in control of herself she decided to call it a night and waved to the workers who were getting absolutely smashed and barely noticed her.

Walking to her inn she witnessed the drunken people staggering around while the passing guards occasionally took some time to make sure they had not hurt themselves. To her the bar trip had been quite nice as she relaxed with her drink and gossiped with the workers, but the best moment was definitely listening to the elf singer.

"Such a nice singer. Wonder if she used magic to enhance her voice for that effect or was it just her natural talent."

Strolling between the houses and greeting the passing guards who were quite surprised to see a dwarf so sober, she made her way towards her inn at a steady pace.

While doing so she came across one of the older houses. Completely made of stone just like the house she had cleaned, a lot smaller than it as well but what interested her was how it was decorated.

It had the common signs of dwarven architecture but instead of the usual shapes and carvings the house only had two ram heads next to the door, it stood out to her quite a lot.

Curious, she took a minute to have a closer look at the house and there literally were no other carvings visible on it.

Slightly confused but not bothered she decided to let it go and have a better look tomorrow but as she was about to leave she noticed something in the alley next to the house.

A silken sash with a pouch sewed on it. It looked odd and unusual compared to the common trash she had habit of noticing.

Aleyn walked over and picked it up to examine it. The pouch only had a key with a name tag on it.

"K.S.A.I. Thess."

Scratching her head Aleyn looked around herself to see if there was anything else and surely enough there was another cloth piece further in to the alley way.

Slightly dirty and stepped on it seemed to be a part of the sash but didn't really have anything attached to it.

While thinking she heard a small sound, she couldn't really place where it came from but she knew she heard something out of place. Aleyn closed her eyes and tried to find that sound, it took her a few moments but the sound became very clear. She followed the bread crumbs left by the sound and as she went deeper in to the alley way she found more scraps of cloth and the sound became more clearer, a person huffing and puffing.

As she turned a corner in the Alley way she saw the source of the sound and with a quick movement she went back behind the corner.

"Really? In a place like this."

A man in between a woman's legs, huffing and puffing intensely. What else could it be? Some frisky couple had decided to make love in an alley way.

"I should leave them alone."

But a nagging feeling in the back of her head said she shouldn't go. Was she actually a perv that liked to watch other people have sex? Slightly curious and tired she took another peak from behind the corner.

The man was still going quite intensely as the woman laid down motionless on the ground.

"Wait.."

The woman wasn't moving, she lied there motionless and quiet with her arms to her sides while the man held her legs up. Not to mention there were scraps of cloth everywhere with occasional red stain on them.

"...." she stayed quiet as her heartbeat started intensifying after putting the pieces together. The old picture of lovers having sex disappeared without any objections. The man was raping a girl or what was left of her.

How did she not notice it immediately. Did the alcohol hit her harder than she had realized?

She needed to do something and quick, but what were her options? She thought for a brief moment and started looking around the alley way for something to hold and as she did she spotted a shovel lying on the tiles close to her.

"That has to do."

Aleyn picked up the shovel gently with minimal sound and started making her way towards the man as silently as she could.

With every step she grew tenser and her heartbeat faster and faster. She was so close, so very close.

"haa...haaa, You feel so good girl, ah if only my wife had a body like yours." The man having her way spouted.

A disgusted feeling surged through Aleyn which made her gag slightly and almost drop her shovel but before it could, she took a firmer grip. She was going to do this.

She was now just half a meter behind the man. He was too busy having his way with the girl to pay any attention to his surroundings.

Aleyn raised the shovel above her head. She had to make absolutely sure this wouldn't backfire on her as it would danger her and the girl.

"Here it comes~!" the man claimed in excitement.

With her preparations interrupted Aleyn swung down hard. She even put some of her magic power in to the swing and felt how the mans head gave in under the force of her blow. The man was now motionless on his knees, still very in between the girls legs..

With little remorse Aleyn raised her shovel again and swung on the side of the mans face which made him tumble on the alley floor with a silence breaking thump.

With now a full view of the scene, she slightly regretted doing so.

She recognized the girl immediately and tears started gathering in her eyes as she looked at the husk of a girl in front of her. The singer girl, a great beauty with golden white skin colour and massive chest was now in complete shambles and vulnerable in every way possible as her clothes were torn off.

Not conscious, still breathing, but only barely.

Her once beautiful face covered in bruises and her cheeks bleeding from shallow cuts. Her neck had bruises in the shape of a strangle hold, the man probably knocked her out at some point by choking her.

Her body was completely covered in bruises and occasional cuts which bled, but the man had spent a lot more of his attention on her breasts and genital area. Her breasts were red and bruised as they leaned to her sides, the bruises looked like grasping fingers.

But the most disgusting thing to Aleyn was what he had spent the most time on.

From her private area a trickle of blood was escaping as it gaped massively compared to its size and you could clearly see that a lot of the area was torn with muscle showing. Aleyn turned her head in disgust and took a look at what the man was packing and to her horror the size difference was definitely not why this had happened.

He had used his strength and knife to do all of this. Brutally inflicting harm to her just for his own pleasure.

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She was furious enough to pick up his knife and end his life. But as she was about to, a door opened behind her in the alley way.

"Calm down dear, it's probably the cats and dogs again." A tired elderly woman's voice echoed .

"There's no damn cat or dog that makes such a loud noise. Get behind me woman." An elderly voice of a man ordered.

An old dwarf couple appeared from the backdoor, they had heard the loud banging noise from the shovel and the husband had gotten curious and gotten his sword. They walked down the alley way until they clearly saw Aleyn.

"Who goes there! I mean who are you." the man yelled while pointing his sword.

"There's an injured girl behind me...I need you to go back inside... and bring me something to cover her... " Aleyn said while taking in breaths to calm herself and clear her disgusted feeling.

The dwarf couple looked at her and eyed the ground as well as the man and the girl behind her.

"Right fucking now!" Aleyn yelled with all of her fury.

The woman jumped in fright and scurried back inside.

"Explain yourself girl." The dwarf granpa said loudly with his sword pointed towards her.

Aleyn calmed down and started explaining everything. From her finding the two in the alley way until she had almost picked up the mans knife the picture was clear. While explaining the dwarf woman came back with a large white sheet and started sobbing as she heard the story and noticed the girls wounds and bruises.

"Such a young girl." She said and cried as she placed the sheet on the alley way.

Aleyn didn't reply as she raised the girl on the sheet calmly and wrapped her up to cover her as that was the best she could do.

"Neither of you are a doctor or know healing magic I take it."

"Retired guardsman and a baker." the granpa stated.

"Shit.." Aleyn claimed.

At that moment she heard a familiar sound echoed through the alley ways. Clanking that moved at a steady pace away from the houses.

"Guards!" she yelled.

But her voice didn't reach them. She would have to chase after the patrol.

"You two stay here."

Aleyn ordered the couple to stay there while she ran after the guards like her life depended on it. She caught their attention with some yelling and brought them to the scene.

The guards talked to the couple and listened to her hectic story as she tried to hurry the guards along.

"Do you have any idea who she is?" One of the guards asked Aleyn.

"She's a singer that performed a while ago at Broken Horn. Other than that I have no idea." Aleyn answered

"Or this man?" The other guard asked.

"No clue who he is." Aleyn answered again.

"She needs to be brought to safety, but since we don't know where she lives we have to bring her to the headquarters but we cant treat her there." The first guard stated.

"Shit...." Aleyn muttered in a low voice.

At that point she remembered something and dug into her pocket.

"You two have any idea what this K.S.A.I might stand for?"

The first guard took a look at the key.

"No clue. Is this hers?"

"Yeh I picked it up at the start of the Alley and it matches the rest of her torn clothes." Aleyn confirmed.

"K.S.A.I ? Hmm aren't those the initials of that expensive inn a little bit from here? I've been there once, nice place." the other guard stated.

When she heard the name she had mental image of the luxury inns banner.

""K.S.A.I . Kharis's Spa and Inn.""

"That's it!" She yelled.

"We need to get her home, they should have some ways to treat her there since it's an inn." Aleyn hurriedly stated.

She picked up the rolled up girl and was about to start running when one of the guards stopped her.

"If you're taking her there then I'm coming with you, sure as hell not leaving her alone without protection."

He then turned to the old couple.

"You two go out there and wait for the next patrol and direct them here while my partner keeps this man in check."

Everyone nodded and started moving except the guard who stayed behind.

Aleyn held the injured girl in her arms and ran while the guard stayed behind her and as they got the the inn they noticed the huge banner in front of it which matched the nameplate on the key.

"Open the door and lets wake up people." the guard said.

Aleyn hurriedly stuck the key in the lock and it opened without any issues but that didn't stop her from kicking the door and rushing in. She made sure to make a lot of noise while entering.

Just inside the house there was a huge table with some chairs around it and a desk for reception with some doors behind the desk. Next to the reception there was a dark hallway which you could not see far in to.

Aleyn put the girl down on the huge table gently and as she did one of the doors from behind the desk opened.

"Thess for the love of god be more quiet, people are trying to sle... Who are you two?"

A short elven man appeared from the room. He had bed hair and closely resembled the singer girl in every other way than gender.

"Are you the owner of this place?" The guard asked him.

"Yes I'm Kharis, could you two explain yourself.. THESS!" Kharis yelled as he noticed the bundle on the table.

He rushed to the table and tried to get closer to the girl but the guard stood in his way.

"Do you know this girl?"

"That's my daughter! What have you done to her!" Kharis yelled and threw a punch at the guard in anger.

The guard ignored his punch which just hit his chest armor.

"You need to calm down sir and we can share the story."

At that point the door opened again and this time a woman entered the room.

The woman was quite tall and had a brown skin as well as short and slightly curly hair as well as huge chest.

Aleyn after seeing her enter the room immediately thought.

"That's her mother."

The mother after noticing the girl rushed to her side, the guard didn't stop her and started explaining the facts.

The girl had been assaulted in an alley and a citizen had stepped in to interfere. That was the gist of it, there was no need for details. After explaining he deemed the girl was safe in her parents hands and left. He had some paper work to do after all.

The mother turned to Aleyn who had just been watching and listening while trying to relax after the straining experience.

"You're the one that saved her?"

"I put a stop to what was happening. I can't say I saved her." Aleyn replied with emptiness in her eyes.

The mother burst in to tears while Kharis tried to not do the same but shortly after they were both weeping heavily.

"Thank you.." they both said one after the other.

Aleyn just nodded. She was tired, and needed to clean herself.

"I should probably leave now. She is safe here."

"Don't leave." The crying mother burst out.

She then wiped her tears and calmed herself as best as she could.

"You must be tired,stay in one of our rooms. Clean yourself and rest, we can talk more tomorrow."

As much as she would have rather gotten back to the safety of her own room. She was way too tired mentally and physically to turn down the offer.

The mother showed her an empty room where she wiped her hands from the blood that covered them and then immediately went to bed while ignoring everything else in the room.