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Chapter 4: The Burning Village

Days passed since her arrival at Tanacid and Lena would still get stares while shopping for groceries at the market. Did she have something in her face? Was she odd looking? She honestly felt quite uncomfortable, especially at the fact that they made it so obvious. Lena would simply smile, while the man were smiling back at her; the woman in the other hand would simply make a disgusting face to her. She barely would go into populated areas and would only go when she had to buy supplies for the inn.

She had finished her shopping and walked as fast as possible while not making it obvious back to the inn. When she arrived, she saw Balfhe on the counter examining a jug.

"Morning Balfhe, I arrived with the list of supplies that you needed." Without looking at her, he then said some simple thanks. Balfhe had been so kind and generous to her, something she never received from other people. Compare to the Finning's family, she felt likeable and felt like she was in a place where she was accepted by someone. She smiled to herself and jumped a little when Balfhe spoke out of the blue.

"Lena, take the rest of the day off. There isn't a lot of people today, besides you haven't gotten a day off since you first started working here"

"Oh no its okay Balfhe, I'll stay and help with whatever needs to be done."

"No, go outside and enjoy the breeze. Get to know some of the townsfolk here. Make friends and start living. Life is not meant to be locked up behind bars, you have a future. As of myself I have none. Now go before I scatter you off with a broom." He was being dead serious, you can see it in his eyes. He even had the broom in his hands, at what time did he even went to grab the broom?

"You have my thanks Balfhe." There was no point in disagreeing with him at this moment. Not with a broom in his hands.

"Good, glad we settled that down. Be back before dark and don't venture too far from the woods either."

"You got it sir!" she gave him a wide smile before exiting the inn.

She inhaled the air, though it wasn't the most satisfying it felt great. Balfhe was right, she needed to make friends so she went to pick up Onyx and decided to take a stroll through town. Lena didn't know how hard it was going to be to make friends, girls at her age seemed to ignore her or make her faces. One of them even pushed her, glad her back hit a barrel for if it wasn't there she would have fallen.

Sighing she sat next to a well while Onyx drank water from there. Why was it that no one liked her? She was sure she talked to them all nicely. She thought and thought until her mind went to the story Balfhe had told her two days ago. He had a daughter, a family who lost their life from a bear attack while on their way to this town. How difficult. Difficult to start a life where a new chapter would be their concluding chapter.

Deep in thought she didn't notice a little boy was tugging at her dress, it was until the boy touched her hand. She gasped when she felt the hand and was surprise to know it was a little boy. Not wanting to scare him she greeted him with a smile, he was adorable and looked around the age of 7.

"Pretty horse" he stared at Onyx with awe.

"You want to ride him?"

"Can I? Can I?" jumping up and down with so much enthusiasm that it made her laugh.

"Well of course, I'm Lena by the way and this is Onyx" pointing at the horse.

"My name is Abner" Abner couldn't stop smiling and that made her happy. Getting up she then picked him up and put him on top of the horse. Grabbing the rein, she guided Onyx through a little path of flowers.

"Yay! Giddy up horse"

"What do you think you are doing missy? Put my boy down before he gets hurt" Lena turned towards the voice and her face wasn't exactly friendly. She was beyond mad, looked like she was going to explode any time. "Are you trying to kidnap my son?" People turned to her direction, this lady had made a scene, she was making her look like the bad guy here.

"Oh no ma'am, I jus-"

"No, get him off now!" Not wanting to argue she got Abner off the horse.

He ran towards the lady "But momma I want to ride the horse, Lena is my new friend."

"No young sir, you will NOT ride the horse and YOU WILL NOT TALK TO HER EVER AGAIN. You are forbidden to do so; do I make myself clear?"

"Yes momma" he looked at the ground not saying a word after and you could see tears forming in his eyes. He looked miserable and it made Lena's heart hurt. She took hold of Onyx and walked to the opposite of them till she could no longer hear the sniffs and cries of Abner.

Lena sat on a log staring at the distance, tears rolled down her face. What was she doing wrong? She thought of the days where she wanted to know what was the beyond out there, but now she wasn't quite so sure. She had finally made a friend and he was denied having any conversations with her. Onyx softly shoved her shoulder with his head as to give her comfort.

"I'm okay buddy" petting and leaning on his forehead she stared back at the far mountains. It was getting dark and she knew she should be heading back but didn't want to stop looking at the view. Maybe there is more out there. Her thoughts were interrupted when she heard screams and saw a house on fire.

Gasping she jumped off the log and mounted Onyx, making her way to Balfhe. Lena hoped and prayed he was okay, she made him run faster when she saw more houses were caught on fire. Who was causing this? Everyone was screaming and running everywhere, it was chaotic and it brought memories about the Finning's farm. She halted him when she saw this strange looking creature, it looked like some time of elf but ugly. It was this creature who was causing the fire and was laughing like some maniac.

Hearing a loud scream, she turned and saw a whole bunch of them killing innocent man and raping some of the woman. It made her want to pass out and throw up, the scene was just horrific. Onyx reared and it brought her back to reality, the fire was starting to spread and she needed to hurry up if she wanted to make it to Balfhe. Lena feared for his life, avoiding the creatures she made it to the inn but was horrified that she was too late. Hopping off she went looking around for his body, maybe he was hurt. She was going in denial, dropping to her knees she cried like she has never cried before.

Onyx was neighing and stomping trying to get her attention but Lena couldn't stop staring at the burning inn. Shoving her roughly she shook her head, wiped the tears away and straddled him. Lena heard one of the guards telling another guard that they were surrounded by orcs. Orcs. So that's what they are.

"Come on Onyx, let's go" she whispered to him while putting her hood in her head, she made sprint through the attack. Hoping that they could escape.

She made a complete stop when she heard a familiar voice, that voice was Abner and he was crying and covering his ears. Lena couldn't leave him so she went for him and when she hoped off to get to him, she saw an orc who was running towards her direction. Quickly getting both on, she sprinted through the fire and rejoiced when she got to the entrance of the town.

Unknown to her that another orc had seen her escape, he too got on his warg and followed the hooded figure with the child. No one, not one can escape until the attack is over.

She thought it was all over until she heard growling from behind and when she turned it was an orc. He was behind her and was getting closer. Lena had to divert him so when she made a quick turn she told Onyx to take the boy to another town and protect him. Jumping off she landed roughly on the grass and when she saw the orc approaching she began running down the hill.

The orc was now following her, glad her diversion worked out, but now had no clue on how to lose him. Running down a hill wasn't exactly the best idea, she tumbled down and grunted when her back hit a tree. Quickly getting up she made a run and ceased all movements when she came to the edge of the cliff.

Lena slowly turned around to face the orc and to her astonishment he was still on the wolf looking creature. Everything went slow motion for her when he dismounted the wolf, she started looking around for any type of object that she can use as a weapon to defend herself. Finding a branch, she picked it up, ready to attack. But holy shit was this guy huge and terrifying.

Bolg P.O.V

The male looked pathetic when he tried to defend himself with a branch. What did he exactly think that piece of stick was going to do to him, squash him? Humans were unworthy and no match to them, they can't defend themselves or their woman. Bolg was going to first play around with his prey and slowly give him a painful death.

When the male swung at him he caught the tip of the branch and pushed him back with it. The male landed on his back and to his dismay, it was a female. No wonder it was so small and pathetic. Now it being a female has changed his whole plan. The female got up, ready to swing if he got too close. Bolg positioned himself in a fighting stance and he waited patiently for the perfect time to pounce at her. She was deathly afraid of him; her smell of fear was thick in the air and it gave him pleasure.

He growled at her and it made her back up, almost causing her to trip from a tree root. That's all he needed and he ran toward her, pushing her to the tree making her drop the branch from her hands. With him in front of her he took notice on how small and fragile she was; he could practically killed her with his weight. Bolg grabbed her from the throat and flung her to the floor. He was losing patience and getting annoyed when the female started screaming and throwing punches at him, which did no harm to him.

With his hands still on her throat he started to apply more pressure and roared when the female hit him on the side of his head with the branch. The bitch hit him. No one, not one has ever done that to him; hell not even his own men had ever done that to him. Filled with anger, he bit her on the collarbone, causing her to squirm and scream beneath him. Though that didn't stop him from letting go, he bit harder when he felt her hands trying to pry him off of her. Bolg finally let her go when her screams went silent. The female had passed out from pain or blood loss he did not know.

He simply looked at her, he did not want to admit it but she was quite beautiful for the human she was. Bolg couldn't just have her then and there, then leave her. He first wanted her to be conscious when he did have sex with her, he wanted to hear her screams and pleas. Begging for him to stop, which will only make him ram into her roughly. Deciding to keep her was the best option right now and he would be the only one to mate with her.

Bolg carried her and put her on top of the warg with him on the back; making his way back to the village to inform his man to pack up and head back to camp. He had just won a trophy.

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