Chapter 06: Nightmare
Darkness. All around her.
Screams.
Then silence.
Pain, blood ... one face.
Sam woke up sweating. 'No! Not again. I hate this nightmare.' Cursing she got up.
'What time is it?' She looked out of the window. 'Dawn.'
'I don't want to fall asleep again.' She looked at the mirror. Her face was pale, her eyes red. But she didn't cry. She wasn't able to cry anymore. She had no more tears left.
'Well. If I can't sleep I might do something useful.' She looked at her room. Her clothes were already in the wardrobe. The bookcase was nearly full and some plants decorated the window. 'That's the problem of unpacking everything immediately. Nothing left to do.'
She looked at her bed. At the end of it there was a big chest, made of oak- wood with carvings on it. She touched it lovingly.
She knew it wasn't normal for pages to take such things with them. Normally they took the furniture which was already there. But this chest was something special. It was hers. It was the only thing left from her family. 'I will never forget.'
She opened it slowly. The chest had no key- hole. It was closed by magic and only Sam was able to open it. She looked sadly at the things in it.
After a while she took something out of it. A sword. The hilt and the sheath were decorated with moss green stones and strange engravings. The engravings seemed to be words, words of a forgotten language. Words of the same kind were also engraved at the blade. The metal shimmered green. This sword was very unusual.
'Someday I will be worth wielding this sword.' She took a box also kept in the chest.
'He won't get them. I will protect these things with my life. They are too powerful to fall into his hands.'
She put the sword and the box back in the chest and closed it with a slam. 'I will kill him.'
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I know, I know, it's short. I've already started with the next chapter, but actually I am to bored of it, to go on. When I get a better idea I will continue writing.