Prompt: Forced to kneel/bow
Alma shrieked as they killed her husband in front of her. It didn't take him long at all to die. When they realized the soldiers were getting too close, Alma; handed her newborn triplets to her sister, Maria. Alma and Pedro hoped they could hold off the soldiers long enough for the others to run.
Alma was too traumatized to move. Her eyes couldn't move off Pedro's dismembered body. She didn't realize one of the soldiers had gotten behind her. He held his knife to Alma's throat. "Look what I have here," he whispered.
"You got yourself a pretty woman," another one of the soldiers said.
"You, Bastardo," Alma screeched. The previous speaker raised his hand and slapped her. The man holding her forced her to her knees. The knife was still dangerously close to her throat. Pedro's blood stained the young woman's dress.
"Should we kill her?" the man holding her asked.
"No," the man who seemed to be the leader decided. "We'll take her back to the camp. She's too pretty to let her die. We'll decide what to do with her later. Maybe she can give us information about where the others went."
The leader grabbed Alma's face. He forced her to make eye contact with him. "You're going to do what I say if you want your babies to be okay," he threatened. "You got it? You're ours now."
The one holding her bound her hands behind her back. They pulled her to one of the horses. The horse's hooves had stepped into the pile of blood Pedro left. Alma had to hold back the vomit rising in her throat. They rode off into the night, and Alma couldn't hold back the tears.
A/N: Someone pointed out an error, so I fixed it. I apologize for my historical inaccuracies. I thought the characters were called 'Conquerors.' This was strictly based on the film.
