Rejection. It hurts doesn't it? All my life I've been rejected. Rejected by my father, by my family and by my people. I've been even locked up in a room for all my life. Only my dearest cousin Caspian and his father my uncle would visit me, once every two months. As I am branded as a destruction. They told the Telmarines, I was damned. I never knew my mother, only my father. He said I was out of wedlock, and I should be grateful they've been kind enough to let me in and stay with them, I only saw my father twice in my whole 16 years of existence. First when I escaped from my prison room and second when I almost died out of an illness.
If I'm given the option. I'd rather live out in the woods and find my mother. She must want me. Every mother wants their children. Uncle Caspian said, I look like her. He even jokes that I'm a replica of her. Uncle Caspian is more of a father to me than my biological father. He pitied me. Caspian is so lucky to have him as his father. Speaking of Cas, he and I got along well. He's my best friend. But his visits was cut short from one in every two months to two visits in every five after Uncle Caspian died.
I felt terrible when I heard the news. I felt Caspian's sorrow.
After a year after Uncle's death and Uncle Miraz became the ruler, Caspian would always sneak in the castle to visit me. We would play and talk the whole night. Caspian is the brother I never had. He would tell me about the places he had visited. The mountains, valleys and the beach. I love the beach the most. I can't really imagine what it looks like but I know I would like to swim in one.
'I'll take you to one when I'm crowned King' he would always say. 'And I'll set you free to do what you want. You won't be locked here anymore. Before Father died, he persuaded the council to lift the room arrest on you…'
The thought of Caspian made me happy. I was interrupted in my trail of thoughts when I heard a loud knock on my room.
"Alvira, quick we don't have much time." I quickly opened my door to find Caspian hastily dressed and scared. He was panting ans sweating. He was even gasping for air.
"What's wrong Cas?"
"We need to go." He said as he pulled my hand out of my room and I saw an old man with him.
"You know I'm not allowed to go out!" I cried horrified as I yanked my hand out of his. "You're going to get me killed."
'Next time you sneak out of your room.' My father started of he looked so scary. I was crying sorry to him. 'I won't have second thought in sparing your life. Do I make my self clear, you little brat?'
I nodded as I tried to stop my sobbing. And I felt him slap me right across my face as some Telmarine maids and guards escorted me back to my prison room.
"Either way, we are going to die." He caught my hand as he pulled me again with him. I don't know what's behind this all I know it's not going to be pretty. We were able to sneak outside and he went to this house like thing and came out with an animal. I'm sorry I can't call them by their general names, as I have no idea what they are.
"What's that Cas?" I asked curiously.
"It's a horse." He said as he 'saddled' it up. He lifted me by the waist and put me on top of the horse. He went up too, he's in a hurry I can tell. He said goodbye to the old man as the old man tried to make us leave faster.
"I'll come back for you." Cas said before he pulled the rope around the horse's neck and it immediately galloped away. I can't see where we re going, it's cold as I only have my old clothes with me. The last thing I remember was we hit a very big tree branch, I conclude it is big because we were knocked up unconscious.