Othello sat at her desk typing at her computer, she was so stressed that right now the slightest noise was making her want to snap, the sound of the keys clickety clacking under her fingers was soothing, almost cathartic. As a young child, she was betrothed to Silvius Hathaway, she didn't think he was a bad guy or anything, he was just not for her, as a friend yes she could do that, but her heart belonged to Egeus Rebeck. She didn't think she could do it but she was willing to give everything up for Egeus, to become a blight on her family. Not to mention that her former schoolyard crush Balthazar Page was threatening to have her arrested and institutionalized if he saw her in public again. He accused her of stalking her, without real proof or cause. After all she had no idea where he lived, and she was sure it was far away and she had no driver's license, and right now no car, she was planning to buy one and saving her money, but now she didn't know if she could ever get a license and not have the fear of being arrested. The crafty fairylike young woman was planning to tell her fiance Egeus, a butcher with questionable means. She closed her eyes and remembered how and when it all started. How the personal torture was slowly killing her the humming of her computers slowly faded away and she was transported back to the day all of this torture really started, almost 10 years ago, in the schoolyard/
