Kion got distracted.
"Lila?" he muttered, lowering his sword for a split second.
"Now!" Mouse barked, and Kion felt his weapon twisted out of his grip as burly arms wrapped around his throat.
Kai was overpowered as well—the blood-mancer assassin took advantage of the distraction, closing the distance between them, landing a swift blow to the side of his neck and instantly knocking him down.
And in mere seconds, the tables had turned.
Mouse dusted herself as she was set free, standing right in front of the now-captured princes.
She brushed off her robes, taking them off to reveal a slender figure clad in long boots and leather breastplates.
Pink strands of hair hung loosely over her rose-tinted, beady eyes. In her right hand was a dagger concealed within leather cuffs.
