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Primrose Everdeen (seeinghope) wrote in thereincarnates,

Maybe it had been easier to underestimate Lana when she was only threatening him with a single arrow, Lily thought, but whatever she did with the second arrow that she pulled free from her quiver prodded him into moving. It probably wasn't the way that Lana had expected, though. He reached into the pocket where he'd tucked the key to the manacles that held Lily to the table, gnarled fingers closing around the metal of it. Lily knew it wasn't going to be that easy... she was optimistic, but she understood people much better than she understood almost anything else. He wasn't giving up, not when he had guards on the way, and they were only two girls. Men underestimated girls, and what they could do. Lily had warned him, but he still underestimated Lana.

He drew the key out of his pocket, and then tossed it behind him, past Lana. Her hands were busy with the arrows; Lily knew she wouldn't be able to catch it, not unless she dropped them immediately. She wouldn't be able to get the key, either, unless she let go of him, risked letting him out of her sight so that she could turn around and fetch the key. He underestimated them, but he wasn't stupid. It would have been easier, if he'd been stupid, instead of smart, for Lana to trick him and get Lily out of there without anyone coming to any real harm, aside from Lily being hungry and thirsty.

"Unchain her yourself," he spat at Lana. He wasn't going to be intimidated by her, even when she had him at arrowpoint. Not when he still had guards, and magic, at his disposal, and they were just two girls. What he could do in the time that it took Lana to get the key and get back to Lily... he could be gone, Lily thought. He could go and kidnap some other girl, from some other place, one who wouldn't have a Lana. Who wouldn't have anyone to come after her and save her so that they could go home again, after. Lily didn't like killing. She couldn't do it, not even with an animal. That didn't mean that she didn't understand that, sometimes, it was what had to be done.

She shook her head, even though she wasn't sure Lana could see it. "Lana, no! Don't let him get away." Lana would do anything for her. Lily knew that. She just hoped that, this time, what she'd do for Lily would be listen, and not save her first. It was more important that Lana save all the other girls that he might hurt, in the future, if he got away. Even if it meant that Lily didn't get away at all, that didn't matter... except to Lana, of course. Lily wasn't nearly as important to anyone else.