Please R&R This takes place after book 10
Chapter 1
Run I thought to myself just run, don't think about your sore muscles or your hurting feet, just run. Oh and don't forget there is a man with an ax behind you intent on killing you for burning the entire evening meal.
It was twilight, where it is just dark enough to hamper vision but too light for people to use there limited night vision. I ran until I reached the woods and found a suitable tree to climb. Scrambling up faster than was safe I reached a comfortable fork in the branches and waited, as still as an owl hoping against hope he wouldn't see me, a horrible hope because I was wearing a ruby red cloak, that would be extremely visible against the trees. I heard him running through the trees and I was praying now, don't look up please don't look up. But, luck wasn't on my side, an owl shrieked and flew off from the neighboring tree. He looked up and saw me, a red spot in a sea of green. And he said," come down here honey and I won't beat you over the burned dinner."
I replied, "You didn't bring a whip, but an ax to kill me right here, away from others eyes. To rid yourself of an assigned farmhand."
He replied," you got me" he said in mock surprise, "now come down or I will cut down that tree."
Then he started to chop, and I contemplated coming down but staying away from that ax seemed preferable. A sickening crack came from the tree and it started to tilt but the mans gaze and mine too was fixed on a figure who was coming down the trail. A man clad in green and grey with a drawn bow pointed right at my tormenter. But time wasn't on my side, nothing was today and the tree began to fall. I might have screamed but I don't think so, all I can remember is falling off the trunk and the sickening crunch of bones before blacking out.