Chapter 10

'They will never kill you, Rose.' She continued in a whispering tone as her tears choke her voice. 'They will let you live to see what is worse than death.' Macy stared into those deep blue eyes. 'How can you work among these murders?' She asked.

'I am already dead. Who else could do it?'

Stella wiped her tear away and gazed at Macy again, 'everything is lost, and if it is not, then it will be. You can choose to die or you can choose to survive, but never try to find the third space, the principle because it does not exist.'

'I can't give up without trying.'

'Your own father sold you to these men. What is worth fighting for, Rose?'

Macy fell in to silence as tear escaped her eyes and united with Stella in her thoughts. 'There is nothing left. You can die or you can survive, you can't live. Not here, not anymore.'

'They are only men. They can be fought against.' Macy said but her broken spirit was found in her voice.

'They are men that have found the passage to chaos. They walking paths that we didn't even know existed. We can't find them so how will we fight them?'

'What am I suppose to do?'

'Choose your path and remain on it. If you choose to survive, then you must pay the price. You are no longer a princess, you are their property. You can find some moments where you will live but only for a moment. Everything is lost.'

Stella stared at her only discipline with watery eyes and repeated, 'you must choose your path.' She turned around and walked out of the door, leaving behind a girl forced to face her reality, forced to face her new life. She was not ready to die. She knew that but was she ready for a life she knew as worse than death. Was she ready to live for only moments of joy? or more importantly was she ready to miss those moments. She stared toward the window again, knowing that it would be the last time. Another tear escaped her eyes as she remembered her last encounter with her father

'You are my most precious property.' Her father said proudly as if it was a compliment. 'Is that all I am? A property? Am I not a human?' Macy asked in a tone of disbelief and hurt. 'Of course, you are a woman.' Her father said as if it answered the question.

'They are asking for property, father. Not for my life.'

Her father turned around, 'I cannot give them anything else. It is not mine to give. It belongs to the kingdom. We are already poorer than we should be, how can I give them the last of us?'

'But you can give them my life! That is not you to give!'

'You are my daughter, and you will obey!'

'I will never obey the killer of my mother! Why do you not just admit the truth? You want me dead like you killed my mother.'

'I saved her from a destiny worse than death!'

'You killed her with your proud! It was never about her but it was about you! You would never be with a woman that been seen by any other man! So you would rather let her die by the disease than to let a man save her life! You never loved her, you wanted her dead so you could marry that whore!'

With a great furry he turned around and slapped her with a great force. She fell down and looked op with watery eyes, 'that woman is your mother. Respect her!'

'She is nothing but toy for sickness.' Macy replied.

'You will go to the kingdom. You go there, and then when you are alone, you will kill yourself before they make you to something a princess should not be.' The king was whispering but he was angry and determined. Macy stared at him with disbelief, 'you are sending me to a place worse than dead and still demanding me to die for you.'

'Yes, you will not become the object of their pleasure.'

'I guess it will impossible as I am already the object of your sickness.'

Macy returned from memories stared at the sea as she whispered, 'they are strangers, and yet their punishments are kisses while you punished me with dead.' She cried but continued despite her chose voice, 'I will not die for you. You threw away my life but I will never throw away my death. I choose to survive to the day where I can choose to die for someone.' The tears fell down slowly from her eyes but landed in the mighty and hungry sea. There was nothing else to gain from here then.