(Credit to the Author – Sarah J. Maas)
The Glass Sword
Chapter 1 – 25/8/1254
Beside me I hear a scream, then another one. What's happening? I think.
Then I hear it. The cack of the whip, slashing against an innocent person's bare back.
The guards are doing rounds again, like they do every few hours. It takes them forever to get around to everyone in the time that they have. A lot of the time, because im stuck in the corner away from everyone the guard normally miss me, hidden away in the shadows.
Then I do something I never expected to eve do in my entire life here. I ran. Well, I actually bolted to the door. In spite of what was happening around me, I kept my eyes on the nearing gap in between two wooden poles.
I feel something sharp stab into my foot, I yelp. Then everything went dark.
I awake to a sharp prod in my side. 'Ouch' I think. That's sharp.
I get poked again, and again, and again. Then, when I can't take it anymore I jump up. "Stop!" I yell to no one in particular. I feel someone's fist collide with my head. And once again I'm eaten up by the darkness.
I'm taken back to the day they took me. I'm coming home late from the market on the other side of town. And I here sirens. 'That's weird' I think. We're not fortunate enough to have healers, this side of the state. We're poor, and nothing we can ever do is going to change that.
That's when I turn the corner and see that the sirens stoped at my house. That's not a healer van, it's the army force one! Confused, I keep walking up to my house.
I hear a familiar voice calling to me from the second floor.
"Daisy!" They call.
It must be Kate. She's using one of her silly nicknames that she's made up for me. Since my real name is Rose, Kate insists that she calls me whatever type of flower she can think of. So it looks like today it's Daisy.
From where I am it looks like she's trying to get me to turn around and go back to the market.
'Maybe Mum and her have done surprise for me?' I think.
Suddenly a soldier walks up to and says in his gruff voice.
"Ya name Rose?" He asks
In the window I see Kate quickly shaking her head.
When I don't reply the soldier automatically knows that my name is Rose, and that I didn't want him to know that.
He then grabs my hands behind my back, and yells to his companions.
"I've got the girl, I've got the girl!" He repeats over and over to the other soldiers.
The then shove me into a dark cell on the back of a cart.
Now I finally know what Kate was warning me about. They had come, they had found me. And they weren't going to stop until they broke me.
Thank you all for reading this.
I know I don't post much as it is and all. But im going to be posting even less now because I've realised that I just don't have enough time to be writing a Fanfic.
But thank you for staying with me.
-Tilly
