I am a peasant a peasant that knows too much. I live in a country obsessed with war and superiority among the kingdoms, our lord was once a kind hearted man whose main ambition was to perfect his spell casting to make our kingdom a paradise but when the neighbouring kingdoms wished for him to join them in war he was corrupted by a somewhat evil presence he became obsessed with war and domination he stopped putting the majority of our kingdoms funds into spell casting and totally focussed on making the largest army in the land 80% of our kingdoms population has been forced into joining the army. I am part of a small group of 20 men and women who escaped before we were caught and taken to a military training camp our group is currently hiding in the bushland to the south of the kingdoms borders that was three months ago now there's only 12 of us left alive 2 of the men were slain while gathering food to the south of the kingdom and 3 of the women were slain while washing at the stream all of the first five slain were slain by the kings archers obviously he had heard of our escape the other three were captured by the kings thieves and put into slavery which eventually killed them. Now we're constantly on the run from the king and his men we have turned to other kingdoms for help but we are constantly shunned from the kingdoms but today has given us new hope yesterday we had left the unified kingdoms borders and now we are reaching a kingdom which once had a truce with our kingdom but the 2 kingdoms became enemies when our king became corrupt so tonight we can finally sleep peacefully tonight we are finally free. Monday,11 August 2003