Going to keep this short, and say, thank you all for reading, and going through the story with me. Also, my dog is evil. Just wanted to throw that out.

I wake up with a start, my mouth dry. The sky, barely lighter than black, with only the noise of small birds in the world to wake me up. I look around, sure I heard a voice, before laying back down. Before I lay my head down I hear it again.

"Wake up…" Softly is said, heard from somewhere. The gag cutting into my mouth now, I shoot up, my eyes wide. I begin looking around more, my eyes adjusting to the dark. Slowly, right in front of me, I see a figure. From what I can see, it is a figure. It is too dark, too late, and I am too tired to process it. "Be strong…" It just says, before I think it… vanishes? I can't be sure, but when I put my hand where I think it stood, there is nothing there.

My mind, I hope, was just playing tricks on me. Before I hear anything else, I lay down, falling asleep once more. Less than two hours later, something hard and heavy lands on my stomach. Two things, I think.

"Get up slave. You have work to do." I hear Emily say, hearing her sit down on the edge of her tent. I wake up again, still tired. I nod as she takes off one of her boots from my stomach, looking down at me. "You can take that gag out." She says looking away, as I pretty much rip it out. I begin rubbing the corners of my mouth, working my jaw back to normal.

"Thank you, Mistress Emily." I say, my voice audibly dry, looking down. She pulls on her other boot, quickly tying it.

"Sit up, we are going by a creek for you to do some chores." She says, as I stand up, my joints a little stiff. I quickly nod, looking down. She grabs leash, it still hanging from the collar, and begins pulling me. I continue to look down, my knees stiff as she pulls me out of the camp. She pulls me through the center of camp, and to my left I hear a large group of snickers. I continue looking down at the ground, hoping it stops before we exit camp.

"Hey look! A weak little shit, following Emily!" A voice yells, laughing at her jokes. I resist the urge to look to see who yelled that, Emily pulling on the leash harder. We exit the camp, and walk a bit more to a small creek. Emily pulls the leash, tying it to a branch hanging over the water. Next to the branch is a small fishing pole and bait.

"Artemis wants you to gather food so the girls can rest today. Get to it." She says, sitting on a tree stump. I sit on the ground, grabbing the pole, hooking the bait onto the hook. I cast the line into the creek, shoving the handle of the rod into the ground. As I do, I remember the figure from last night. The face looked… familiar, I think, like someone I know. I shake my head, stupidly thinking I could know them. I sit on the ground for a good twenty minutes, before the rod begins pulling from the ground. I grab the rod, pulling and reeling it in.

"Son of a bitch…" I mutter under my breath, as I struggle to pull the fish in, with the fish putting up a hell of a fight. I let it out for a few seconds, before pulling it in quickly and hard, getting it within reach of the ground. I grab the line, pulling in the line the rest of the way with my hand. On the hook is a salmon, with the hook caught perfectly in its mouth.

This continues for roughly three hour, without fail. I catch a salmon every couple minutes, with it fighting as I pull it out. I have caught about 36 salmons, a good haul, when I see that figure again. This time on the other side of the creek, holding a stone, I think. I don't get a good look at the figure or what they have before something strikes me directly in the right eye. Right away my eyelid tries to close from the pain, and can't, with this stone lodged in my eye.

"FUCK!" I scream, my hand reaching up to my head.

"Slave, why did you ta-" Emily starts, before looking at me. "What the hell happened?!" She screams, bending down.

"I don't know Mistress, I just saw what looks like a figure and then I felt something in my eye!" I shout, unable to feel anything but pain. I hear a stick crunch somewhere behind me, and with one see unable to see I turn around. With my one good eye, I see a shape, that I cannot see what it is, but just hear a voice.

"Be strong…" The same voice from this morning, the one who just threw a stone at my eye. I let out a primal growl, as the figure disappears, with Emily shocked.

"What are you looking at?!" She screams, looking where I was.

"That son of a bitch was right there, Mistress." I growl, my eye killing me. My left eye, looking around, looking for any trace of the figure again, with my right eye unable to close and in shooting pain. Emily unties to leash from the branch, letting it drop.

"Go back to where you slept, I will come with some basic medical supplies." She orders, running to camp I stand up, a little woozy, and begin walking back to the camp, the salmon left by the creek. I walk into the camp a couple minutes later, my left eye straining to see where everything is. I see Emily's tent, with the fur I use right in front of it. I begin walking over, before falling to my knees in the middle of the camp. I close my left eye, and begin to crawl to the tent, the pain unbearable.

"Hey, look at the slave. Crawling like a dog all by himself!" Someone, I think it may have been Catelynn yelled, laughing. I try and ignore it as I crawl to my spot, before laying at the entrance to her tent. Emily runs over, in her hands an eyepatch, a roll of bandages, and a small chisel.

"This is the best you are going to get. So hold still." She orders, as she places the chisel right next to the rock, and begins to tap it in. I hold my body as still as I can, before she chops off the part of the rock still sticking out above most of the eye. She places the bandage and eyepatch on my chest, looking down. "Bandage up, and then get the eyepatch on." She orders. I begin wrapping the bandage around my head, angled so it covers only that eye and part of my head. After I use the roll, I slip the eyepatch over the eye, now half blind.

"You can rest for a second, but after that you will go collect the fish." She orders, leaving me on the ground, in pain. I slowly close my god ee, wincing.

Hey everyone, I hope you like the chapter. Took me a bit to write, mainly the last part. And do know, everything I do as meaning later on. So be warned. As always, see you all next time.