Yu-Mai Ashawa flees Bashur

Life, Relocation

Yu-Mai Ashawa flees Bashur along with her children, her husband, 75 royal guards a few treasures (among them is the crown, the royal scepter and her father's sword), some horses and mules and some meager supplies.

As arquado's army breaches the inner walls and storms the upper city, Yu-Mai Ashawa organizes a small and daring retreat from the city so that she won't be captured and will be able to take back her city another day. The queens party sneaks out of the palace and into the upper docks where the take a medium size cargo vessel out through the harbor. The task isn't easy considering that they are traveling as a large party and they need to move quickly and quietly. The animals are likely to make noise and the queen's 4 children (the eldest is 9 years old and the youngest is 2 years old) don't make they job easier at all. They successfuly leave the city and a few warships and transport ships of fleeng soldiers join them as they set sail towards Shi, a vassal of Labia that has a small trading harbor on the coast some several dozen kilometers away from itself. They successfully make it to their destination where the king of Shi permits them to dock and resupply. He sends skirmishers to attempt to steal the warships and transport ships but only a single warship is successfully taken. One of the Bashurian soldiers uncovers the plot and notifies the queen who decides to hire some local mercenaries to distract the Shiis troops while the Bashurians take as much loot from the local trading town as they can before fleeing the harbor and setting sail to Shuban. The Shiis king is unable to retaliate because he legally can't declare war on Bashur because he is a vassal without the Labiani king's approval (and the Labiani king will not approve because he wouldn't see it worth the trouble and because he thought that if he got into good terms with the Bashurian queen she wiil agree to receive his help if she signs a treaty that will make Bashur a Labiani vassal-state once she retakes the city) and because he needed to defend and liberate Bashur just like all the Tri-River city-states because of the .