It was crowded around the Pit, as it was called. The Earth Kingdom's very own fighting center. It was time for the annual Autumn Festival contests. This was exactly what Audrey was looking forward to. For once she wanted to be picked to fight. Fighting would mean that she would have enough money to finally leave the Earth Kingdom.

Once the lottery winners were picked to be the fighters in today's fight, she was happy. It was her against one of the best hand-to-hand fighters, Jarrod. She approached him and they shook hands in the traditional Earth Kingdom way. She leaned towards him and whispered, "I'll let you win easily for the usual price and five flasks of apple wine." This wasn't the first time that they had fought and each time he had paid her for his win. He remembered the first time when he refused and almost lost to her. "A'ite," he said, grinning. He got more points for how easily he won the fight; and during the festival, the more points you got, the better.


Audrey was cut and bruised after the fight, but it was worth it. She had prepared the right herbs and medicines that she needed to feel better the night before and was soon ready to leave. She had an extremely large bag packed with everything that she might need, as well as some stuff that she knew she could sell or barter away. She set her small trap to the one and only in the Earth Kingdom that she cared about her garden and made her way towards the gates of the kingdom. Running across the treetops she approached the gate. She jumped down from the trees with a dancer's grace. As one of the guards tried to stop her, shouts rose from the distance, "What the..." he said.

"You might want to check that out, after all this is a forest," she said as they ran back towards the city. Her final 'gift' to the Kingdom was to burn her garden. After all it held some of the rarest plants and herbs in it. She knew that she had the best garden in the kingdom. Smiling and unopposed, she left the kingdom that had mistreated her for her whole life and now she was finally free of it.