Disclaimer: I'll never own Escaflowne.
I shut my eyes as the swish of his katana as it hit my mother's chest. I heard her blood fall down like raindrops on to the floor as she breathed her last. He turned briskly to me.
"Come." he commanded me. But I didn't want to go with him. That man...what was his name again? He had long blonde hair that was loosely tied up. I didn't want to go with him. He killed my mother. He might've been the same man who killed father two years ago. I don't remember. All I knew was that I didn't want to go with him.
"Come," he said again. Only this time, he took my hand and pulled me. I stubbornly shook my head, indicating my answer. He raised his eyebrows at me. I fingered my pendant which hung around my neck. My mother had given it to me only this morning, on my birthday. Another man came. He stared at the surroundings of the room.
"Allen. What have you done?" he asked the blonde man. Ah, I thought, so his name was Allen. Allen shook his head.
"I've only done what I was told to do, Gaddess: Kill Mariemeia Kanzaki and leave. But I didn't know she had a daughter. So I'm taking the girl with me."
"You killed Mariemeia Kanzaki in front of her daughter?" the man called Gaddess asked in awe. Allen shrugged.
"But that's brutal!" Gaddess insisted. Had been older at the time, I would've run away. But being only six, I decided to stay. The next thing I knew, I was sitting at the backseat of a Toyota on my way a life that would be emotionless...