I closed my eyes, waiting for the strength to cool the hot summertime air. I knew my Magick would be seen,
but I couldn't care, I was almost at the gate of Death anyway.
Carefully I picked myself up and kept going, forgetting about cooling the air, just wanting to get to a new civilization.
I promised myself that eventually when or if I got out of this forest, I was never coming back. And I really didn't want to die
here, in the middle of nowhere, who would?
Finding a bit of strength from knowing there had to be civilization up there soon, I trudged on relentlessly. Blisters on
my back swelled in the sunlight, and suddenly I found myself on the ground, screaming, because I remembered...
Escape has come, I realized immediately. No one could hurt me anymore if I just gave into this boy's wishes..
I slinked sexily up to a young man clad in brown and green, an Earth Mage. He looked at me, stared at me as I opened
the front of my dress, and quickly pulled me around so that no one could see.
"What do you want in return?" he said at last, panting, his rough voice volumed down low so that I was the only one
that could hear him.
"I want Freedom." I said, shivering in my cool dress.
"Freedom?" He looked at me hesitantly, and I knew that he wanted to call the other guards on me. But I wasn't done, yet.
"Yes, Freedom and a week's headstart to escape."
I knew this was a bit much, and I had to control my voice totally so that my shivering in cold and something else would
not be heard.
"You've got it, lady." he said, and I blinked, surprised.
"Really???" I asked, and the shakes really did sound bad now.
"Really. I promise, with all that's in me. I've seen what everyone's done to you." he said the last nonchalantly, because
he had just been doing those things to me too. But I didn't care about that now.
"Thank you!" I cried in a harsh whisper, and I hugged him tight, kissing his forehead.
"Here." He handed me his water cantine. I smiled gratefully, and I saw a bit of pride flash up in his eyes in the firelight
before running off.
Suddenly I heard screams and curses. They had found him with his clothes off... I turned halfway around and out of the
corner of my eye I saw him, staring at me, his dead eyes rolled into the back of his head as another Officer pulled a bloody knife out
of his back. I kept running...
Shivering, I drew a small knife hidden in the back of my shoe and chafed away at the skin until I saw a tiny stream of blood.
I licked it up immediately, needing some sort of fluid to sustain me for another day. The metallic taste shot through my tongue and
head and I almost wretched, but I knew I couldn't because I didn't have anything left in me.
And so I got up again, chasing a dream of Freedom that was falling to pieces, hoping that maybe, even in the forest, I would like death better than this..
Sapphierra ran as fast as she could in the direction of the other maiden. Pain lanced through her body, slicing off her energy,
and she cried out softly as she hit the ground, feeling the pain of the maiden Leandra through her own bones, not 50 yards away.
Biting her lip until it bled, she met the girl, walking unintentionally back in the direction she had come. Sapphierra pulled Leandra
into her arms instinctively and slowly pulled the girl's feet up, carrying her cradle-style in her arms, knowing that she was the younger of the
two and could last longer.
I awakened to find a girl about 4 years younger pulling me up into her arms and carrying me through the forest. My side ached and
I pressed my head against her breast, closing my eyes, comforted and free with someone I had rarely met, but always loved.
Sapphierra looked down at this girl, and kissed her forehead. Somehow this friendship had gotten to love too quickly to tell. But she
had wanted to be loved, and here she had found it, and she accepted it in its form.
She pulled Leandra up a bit more so that she wouldn't drop her and Felt and Healed the blisters formed on Leandra's back. This was
going to be a long day...
but I couldn't care, I was almost at the gate of Death anyway.
Carefully I picked myself up and kept going, forgetting about cooling the air, just wanting to get to a new civilization.
I promised myself that eventually when or if I got out of this forest, I was never coming back. And I really didn't want to die
here, in the middle of nowhere, who would?
Finding a bit of strength from knowing there had to be civilization up there soon, I trudged on relentlessly. Blisters on
my back swelled in the sunlight, and suddenly I found myself on the ground, screaming, because I remembered...
Escape has come, I realized immediately. No one could hurt me anymore if I just gave into this boy's wishes..
I slinked sexily up to a young man clad in brown and green, an Earth Mage. He looked at me, stared at me as I opened
the front of my dress, and quickly pulled me around so that no one could see.
"What do you want in return?" he said at last, panting, his rough voice volumed down low so that I was the only one
that could hear him.
"I want Freedom." I said, shivering in my cool dress.
"Freedom?" He looked at me hesitantly, and I knew that he wanted to call the other guards on me. But I wasn't done, yet.
"Yes, Freedom and a week's headstart to escape."
I knew this was a bit much, and I had to control my voice totally so that my shivering in cold and something else would
not be heard.
"You've got it, lady." he said, and I blinked, surprised.
"Really???" I asked, and the shakes really did sound bad now.
"Really. I promise, with all that's in me. I've seen what everyone's done to you." he said the last nonchalantly, because
he had just been doing those things to me too. But I didn't care about that now.
"Thank you!" I cried in a harsh whisper, and I hugged him tight, kissing his forehead.
"Here." He handed me his water cantine. I smiled gratefully, and I saw a bit of pride flash up in his eyes in the firelight
before running off.
Suddenly I heard screams and curses. They had found him with his clothes off... I turned halfway around and out of the
corner of my eye I saw him, staring at me, his dead eyes rolled into the back of his head as another Officer pulled a bloody knife out
of his back. I kept running...
Shivering, I drew a small knife hidden in the back of my shoe and chafed away at the skin until I saw a tiny stream of blood.
I licked it up immediately, needing some sort of fluid to sustain me for another day. The metallic taste shot through my tongue and
head and I almost wretched, but I knew I couldn't because I didn't have anything left in me.
And so I got up again, chasing a dream of Freedom that was falling to pieces, hoping that maybe, even in the forest, I would like death better than this..
Sapphierra ran as fast as she could in the direction of the other maiden. Pain lanced through her body, slicing off her energy,
and she cried out softly as she hit the ground, feeling the pain of the maiden Leandra through her own bones, not 50 yards away.
Biting her lip until it bled, she met the girl, walking unintentionally back in the direction she had come. Sapphierra pulled Leandra
into her arms instinctively and slowly pulled the girl's feet up, carrying her cradle-style in her arms, knowing that she was the younger of the
two and could last longer.
I awakened to find a girl about 4 years younger pulling me up into her arms and carrying me through the forest. My side ached and
I pressed my head against her breast, closing my eyes, comforted and free with someone I had rarely met, but always loved.
Sapphierra looked down at this girl, and kissed her forehead. Somehow this friendship had gotten to love too quickly to tell. But she
had wanted to be loved, and here she had found it, and she accepted it in its form.
She pulled Leandra up a bit more so that she wouldn't drop her and Felt and Healed the blisters formed on Leandra's back. This was
going to be a long day...