Authors note: Hello everyone, hope your all of to a great start to 2022, I'm personally having a few medical issues this month so that's a thing. Hopefully, that won't interfere with the schedule but if it dose sorry in advance but I need to be well to write. That's enough out of me…
Lost in unfamiliar worlds
Chapter 5 The Sins of a Sasha
Bound and gagged, Sasha was placed inside a wooden cage in the center of the tent, all eyes were on her as members of the community began to fill the room. Confused whispers and mummers echoed through the crowded area as they exchanged confused glances at Sasha and each other. General Yunnan instructed her underlings to guide the citizens to there seats. A few moments passed and everyone was in place, Newtopian citizens sat on the floor crossed legged, looking up at Lady Olivia who sat in front of them, General Yunnan by her side. All the while an uneasy feeling of familiarity began to wash over Sasha as she sat there in the cage.
"Loyal people of Newtopia, I thank you for joining us today, I know many of you are confused as to why you are here and why I have imprisoned the very human that just the other day fought by are side" Lady Olivia paused, as she stepped down from her throne and moved in front of Sasha. "Sasha Way Bright is not who you believe she is, she is a liar and a deceiver. I do not say these things to be mean but merrily to inform you of her true character for you see the truth is Sasha Way Bright played a key role in bringing about the destruction of Newtopia"
With that unbelievable revelation, the calm and confused crowd suddenly transformed into a group of outraged, blood thirsty monsters who only sought one thing, payback.
"You destroyed our homes!"
"My child died in that chaos!"
"Kill her!"
The crowds anger grew out of control as they pushed against the guards who had come swarming in to stop them. General Yunnan yelled out orders to restrain them, while lady Olivia glanced at Sasha who had her head to the bars. She couldn't believe what she was seeing, all this anger and rage directed at her, all because of her own stupid selfish actions. She never meant to hurt all these people, all she wanted was to save Anne and Marcy.
"Even now you're still lying to yourself" Lady Olivia said.
While the guards struggled to calm the citizens down, they failed to notice an intruder sneak in during the chaos. Lady Olivia reached her arm through the cage and pulled out the bundled fabric in her mouth. "You can stop this chaos, your basically their queen" Sasha said.
"I can but I won't"
"Why?" Sasha panicked
"Because this is your responsibility"
"What?" Sasha asked, bewildered by her words.
"What dose that even mean, if you don't do something soon someone is going to get hurt"
"Have you always been one to doge responsibility?"
"What's that meant to mean?" Sasha asked, growing irritated.
"You push your burdens on to those closest to you so that you don't have to deal with them yourself, first there was Anne and Marcy, then it was Grime and the toads, and now me and my people. I don't know you Sasha but I have seen your kind before, you use people to avoid taking responsibility and then abandon them when they need you. You did it to Anne, your did it to Marcy and sooner or later your do it to Grime to"
Suddenly, Lady Olivia felt a small cold blade pressed against her neck, Sasha had concealed a small blade inside the sole of her boot. With it she'd cut through he binds and was planning to use her highness here as leverage to escape but for some reason Sasha couldn't stop her hand from shaking.
"Whats wrong?"
"Shut up and let me out" Sasha ordered, steadying her hand with her other arm.
"No"
"What?"
"I said I won't let you out"
Sasha grabbed lady Olivia and yanked her towards the cage her head ramming into the wooden bars, blood poured from her nose and General Yunnan was quick to react, but. "Do not interfere, my orders were crystal clear were they not. Now stop wasting time and get my people under control."
The General grit her teeth conflicted on what to do, in the end she turned back to her men "Alright everyone listen up, Lady Olivia invited you all here to witness what happens when you mess with Newtopia. Now you can all seat there and watch the show like good boys and girls or you can take part in a different kind of experience, the one in a lifetime ass kicking by the great General Yunnan!"
The crowd simmered down a little after that, out of fear or admiration it was hard to tell.
"They stopped" Sasha said, letting out an exhausted breath.
"The General has her uses even if her methods are a bit unorthodox" Lady Olivia said then swatted Sasha's hand away. "Each and everyone of them down there are my responsibility, I love and protect them equally and though it may be hard, I would never abandon them. Can you say the same about the people you love?"
Sasha thought about Anne and how she treated her back on earth, using her for favors but never dishing any out in return. Pressuring her into lending money or attending events she didn't feel comfortable with. Then of course there was Marcy, she'd tried to drag her away from all that geeky stuff many times just because it wasn't considered cool it didn't matter to her that it was something she was passionate about. Marcy was like a human calculator to Sasha one she took for granted, often cheating of her work in exams and one time Marcy refused to give her the answers Sasha changed there names on the exams. Leaving her with straight A's and Marcy with C's and possibly running any shot she had of getting into a decent university, not that it matters anyway because the worst thing she did to Marcy… Was when she took her life away.
"The people I love are gone!" Sasha yelled, standing up. "One abandoned me on this god forsaken rock! The other is dead and its all my fault! Now I'm all alone!"
"Now Lieutenant you know that's not true" purple goo dropped onto the roof of the cage as it slowly began to break away.
"Grime" Sasha said, looking over at the toad as she climbed out of the cage.
"Sasha wait!" Lady Olivia said, grabbing her hand.
"Let go! I don't want to hurt you" Sasha warned.
"I invited you here to give you a chance to earn up to your mistakes, to realize your sins and find a way to come to turn with them, but if you go now, you will only be repeating the past"
"Stop speaking like you know me, its pissing me of!" Sasha yelled.
But Lady Olivia was determined and ignored the killer glares directed at her "Every time something in your life goes wrong you run away! When Anne chose the Plantars over you, you ran to Grime. When King Andria's took over Newtopia you fled to me, and now that we have turned on you, once again you have made the choice to run rather than fight, but how long will you run Sasha? How long can you possibly keep running until you hit a wall?" Lady Olivia's words struck an unexpected chord with Sasha as she stood there unable to answer or move. A look of sadness and fear crossed her face as past events started to reply in her mind, days of a time she had been trying to forget.
Authors Note: Hate to end it there but when I said chapters were going to get shorter, I meant it, good news is shorter chapters means more frequent updates so you won't have long to wait for the next one. Anyway, like I said earlier I hope you all had a great Christmas, mine was not so good, I've been feeling rough lately so if chapter updates do slow down that's probably why. Thanks for reading, the next chapter will be coming out very soon, look forward to it.
Still to come:
A look into the past
Anne catches a break staying at a new friend's place
And a powerful witch begins to have strange dreams
All this and more in the upcoming chapters of: Lost in Unfamilar worlds.
