You, a princess, are currently being kidnapped...

The Peace Treaty of the Four Kingdoms was broken when the West Union, Berata Kolk, invaded the Southern kingdom of the ice, Salilahn. We were threatened by the Western people that if we did not send out armies to the North Kingdom, Cherlo Vi, we would be next after the Southerners were conquered.

However, your father, a Saltan of the East Empire, Albernayia, was kidnapped for leverage of cooperation a fortnight ago and your mother was just now assassinated by Southern militias against the destruction of the West and East armies' plans. You were to be kidnapped as well to aid the Southern kingdom in causing the Westerners to retreat from their land. Though you could not exactly see how it all added up...

The guards led you through the palace, but one by one were killed off as you ran for your steed. But the horse whinies that were cut short made you change your plans... You would take a jon boat down the nearest river and go from there, but you first had to cross at least a two-mile hike over scorching dunes, and in a hurry of cheating out an early death or cruel kidnapping.

Though, your plan was compromised almost immediately as you stepped foot on those dunes and began to run. A man in dark robes rode after you on his slender black Arabian horse, much faster than you, it caught up and the man snatched you up to sit in front of him. He slapped you across the face and began to gag you and bind your hands. But out from some slithering sands a tall form rose and hissed a fanged cacophony of ear-splitting shrieks. The man, terrified and with bleeding ears, pushes you off his horse and darts for it.