Father and I travelled through the forest, it was dark and rather cold but we didn't stop. Our home had been sacked by ruthless outlaws, and we were on our way to Cailion, distant family members lived there and we hoped they would welcome us. I stayed close to my father, after the recent drama I was nervous to be travelling so unprotected but we didn't have any choice. As we were walking we noticed an old man and a young woman walking towards us, they were finely dressed and they each held a staff with an emerald jewel encrusted into the top of it. I clung to my father, they didn't look too pleasant.

"Stop where you are." The old man hissed.

They both pointed their staff's at us and we stopped, my father was a caring and kind man and he didn't raise his voice too often, so he gently asked, "Is there a matter?"

"Tell us your names, and your purpose." The man said fiercely.

"I am Ulphric and this is my daughter Sophia, we are travelling to meet family in Cailion as our home has been destroyed by savages." My father explained.

"That's all we need." The young woman smirked horribly.

She pointed her staff at my father and whispered terrible words, a powerful light came from the staff and struck my father on the chest, he dropped to the floor.

"No!" I screamed and fell beside him but there was nothing I could do, he was dead.

Then the old man pointed his staff at me.

"No! No!" I cried. "Please don't!"

Suddenly we heard movement from the bushes. And before I knew it, the pair had not only conjured a spell to tie me with a rope that had now formed, but they conjured men from thin air. The men then carried me and my dead father and dumped us behind a tree. The pair uttered another spell and the men began to attack them, they pretended to stand there helplessly and the girl screamed for help. I then blacked out.

-Two days later-

I heard the sound of feet pounding on the forest floor, I had given up hope that anyone would ever find me. But as soon as I heard the footsteps and the two male voices I began struggling. I tried to shout as loudly as I could but I was gagged so only mumbles came from my voice.

Suddenly the footsteps stopped.

"What is it Arthur?" One voice asked.

"Shut up Merlin, I hear something." The other who was obviously Arthur said.

I knew they were talking about me, so I began yelling as loud as I could.

"A mumbling, I hear it too." Merlin replied.

The two men made their way over to me. Then I saw them, as they climbed down the little ridge and as soon as they saw me they ran towards me. I struggled as much as I could to get out of the ropes.

"That's alright, we're here to save you." Arthur tried to reassure me.

They helped me out of the ropes.

"Ergh, it stinks down here." Merlin said. "What's that?" he asked pointing towards the body next to me.

"What's left of my father." I whispered.

"How long have you been down here?" Arthur asked.

"Two days I think, or it could be longer I blacked out for the first part." I replied solemnly.

"Two days next to a corpse." Merlin added grimly.

I stared at him, I felt so angry and then suddenly I didn't. As if all the shock was finally catching up with me.

I began to cry. I couldn't help it.

The two men looked at each other, unsure of what to do.

"Come on, let's get you back to Camelot, you'll be safe there." Arthur said.

He took my hand and I clung tightly to him, as I was afraid something else was going to happen to me. I was hungry and weary and I wasn't sure what to do anymore.

"Who did this to you and your father?" Arthur asked.

"This man, and this woman. She was a young woman, very pretty, you wouldn't have thought either of them would do such a thing, but they had these staff's with a green stone on each, and they… they said things. It sounded like magic." I whispered the last part.

Merlin suddenly looked at Arthur, they had just had a rather large issue with two people who fitted that description entirely.

"What were their names?" Merlin asked.

I shook my head slightly, "They never said, they just demanded ours, and they wanted to know where we were going."

"What is your name?" Arthur asked.

"Sophia." I replied.

"Well, this explains a lot." Merlin said and Arthur gave a huff in agreement. I was far to tired to bother to ask what they meant by that.

But I soon found out. Once back at the castle I realised that Arthur was the Prince and his father Uther was the King of Camelot. I was immediately brought before the king and Arthur explained my story. Apparently the man and woman had later come to Camelot using mine and my father's names. They had bewitched the prince almost to his death and they had finally been destroyed. I was devastated that my poor father had died because of their selfish desires.

After the story King Uther stood up.

"I am sorry for the enormous troubles that you have experienced. Rest, eat and we shall talk later about your situation, I hope you feel welcome here at Camelot." Uther said.

"Thank you my lord. I am very grateful." I said sincerely.

"You are most welcome, I must insist how gravely sorry I am that you should have come to such harm in my kingdom." Uther said before signally to some servants to help me clear up a bit and look presentable for dinner.

I wanted to say to him 'oh charming, so you wouldn't mind if I came to trouble outside your kingdom' but I restrained myself. Instead I made myself ready for a dinner I was desperately waiting for.