For as long as I could remember, I had been trapped in this place without means of escape. I still remembered the times when I wasn't here. When I lived in my own house, in a world free from boundaries and where people lived, but…it was where I lost everything.
A child was hiding in a wardrobe with both her hands over her mouth. She stayed as silent as she could while watching through the cracks. She stayed there, obediently following what her mother had told her, "Stay in here and don't come out. Mamma will come for you when it's time. Just stay in here and don't make a single sound."
She shivered against the cold wood. She was just having dinner with her mother when someone banged loudly on the door. They had entered the house and all she could hear were the sounds of struggle. The child watched in despair as she saw her mother getting beaten up. She wanted to scream for them to stop, but she wasn't allowed to.
One of the men pulled out a knife. Without hesitation, the knife was embedded into the back of her mother. The man continued to stab the child's mother mercilessly, killing her. The child couldn't stay in the wardrobe. Her own mother would never come for her. Letting out a shuddering cry, one of the men snapped their heads to where she was.
"Check the wardrobe! I heard something in there."
The wardrobe's door was forced open as it was locked. A man looked down on the child, eyes crazily staring down. She let out a whimper before she was grabbed by the man.
"She saw everything. Knock her out. We'll deal with her where her corpse will never be found."
She was outside of her home town in the hands of killers. The ones who killed her mother surrounded her like a murder of crows. She couldn't see anything as a blindfold was draped around her head. Forced to kneel down on the dirt ground with her hands bound, she couldn't put up a struggle at all. She felt content. Fine with dying. After all, what would be the meaning of living in a world without her mother?
She didn't know the answer. Heaven knows she tried.
She bit down on her lips, bracing for whatever was going to kill her. To snuff out her tiny body for good.
But, nothing came. Just the sound of a gun shooting.
"Let go of the girl!" she heard. She felt something whiz pass her face, cutting her blindfold and arm ropes. The child stood up and started running, uncaring of her surroundings. She heard the men shout and chasing after her, but her little legs were speedy. She dashed across the grounds and into a forest. Not looking back, she ran and ran hard. She didn't know why she was running. Her mind was in complete shambles, but her body still moved anyway.
"You're not getting away!"
She let out a terrified cry as she heard them coming closer still. She gave one glance behind her and they were right behind her, but they had stopped abruptly. Confused, she looked forward but it was too late. Her tiny feet slipped down the edges of a hole and she plunged down into the black depths.
A/N: Hello~and sorry if this chapter is short. The chapter sizes may be a little irregular from here, but that will be fixed soon enough =w=
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