Achilles left quickly and the pair looked at each other. They each had a single hand bound. Tecmessa frowned.

"Does he expect you not to try and escape?" She asked.

Briseis shrugged.

"I've tried it before. It didn't work and I almost died so I'm thinking that this time won't be much different. Besides, how would we get out of this? I can't untie such a not with one hand. I couldn't even untie it with two!"

Tecmessa smiled.

"Briseis. This is easy. Use your brain. We can get out of this. Here."

Tecmessa handed Briseis a piece of wood from nearby.

"Snap it in half," she instructed. Briseis nodded and attempted to break the wood in two. She frowned when she couldn't. She moaned as she handed it back to Tecmessa who took it. She held the piece firmly and snapped. She smiled at Briseis.

"Don't worry. Its only practice." Slowly she began to rub the wood together faster and faster until a tiny spark appeared and the end of one splinter caught fire. Tecmessa smiled in triumph and she held the wood underneath the rope until she was free. She did the same to Briseis and blew out the fire.

"Run," she said to her. Briseis stopped.

"How did you know to do that?" She questioned. Tecmessa shrugged.

"It's how I always escaped from Ajax. He always caught me but it was worth it just to see how angry he was that he had been tricked. Come on."

The two began to run out of the tent. It was midday now and most of the soldiers had gone into battle. Few remained and some of them gave the two girls weird looks as they ran past. It was so obvious what they were doing as they both looked petrified and they were running away from a Greek's tent. Just off the city of troy was a forest. Tecmessa was leading Briseis to that forest and she planned to stay there until the fighting stopped for the night and they could creep into Troy. The held hands as they ran on the sand out of the Greek camps. However at the end of the beach, when they thought they had got away with it they were stopped by a tall soldier and his friends. He held out his hand.

"Where are you two from?" He said sounding interested of the two vulnerable girls in front of him. Briseis suddenly panicked and didn't know what to say and so she suddenly blurted out something.

"We're peace envoys." She said. Tecmessa screwed up her face in fury.

"Peace envoys!" She shouted at Briseis. "YOU stupid gir…."She turned her head and saw the faces of the soldiers. "Um…..yes that's right. We are peace envoys. We um….we weren't meant to tell anyone though."

The soldier laughed.

"Are you Trojan or Greek?" Tecmessa and Briseis answered at the same time.

"Greek" said Tecmessa.

"Trojan" said Briseis. Once again Tecmessa screwed up her face. Quickly she tried to work out a way that neither of them had lied.

"Um….." she began, "I am Greek but this is a Trojan. The Trojans sent her to um……to offer peace, and the Greeks sent me. So I suggest that you let us go because both sides of the battle want peace now. The soldiers are going to march back and leave. Uh huh."

Tecmessa nodded at her words but the soldier just laughed again.

"Peace? How about you come back with me and my friends and we'll show you a night of peace." Damn, thought Briseis. She looked at Tecmessa who was bound to come up with something. But her mouth dropped when she saw what Tecmessa did.

The little Trojan brunette nodded flirtatiously and let the big man put his arm around her. She smiled and looked up at him. She let him put his disgusting lips around hers and kiss her but as he did so she bit down really hard. The soldier suddenly groaned and Tecmessa screamed at Briseis.

"Run!" she cried. Briseis turned to run but realised she couldn't just leave poor Tecmessa to fight off three Greek men. Suddenly Tecmessa lifted her knee into the warriors groin and she too ran as he keeled over in pain.

She did a dainty little hop out of his arms and she ran over to Briseis. She grabbed the Queen's hand as she sped past and the two started to run again. Briseis was in total shock though. What an amazing girl she thought. Tecmessa could do anything. Briseis felt like such an idiot as she had almost screwed up the whole plan with her pathetic blurting out of words. They ran past another tent on the beach but as they did so someone stepped out. He was a big man and he had a scowl on his scarred face. Ajax.

"Oh no." Tecmessa moaned as he approached them. He lifted back his hand and Tecmessa flinched as he dropped it to smack her across the cheek. She cried in pain as she was struck but she tried to keep standing. Ajax obviously wasn't happy with this to he continued to hit her until she was on the floor. He began to hit her hander and when she was on the floor screaming he started to kick her with all his strength, grunting each time. Suddenly Tecmessa let out a huge cry of pain and she went limp.

Ajax spat on her unconscious body and he turned to Briseis who was frozen with fear.

He began to approach her and she began to shake so hard she feared she might fall over. Little gasps escaped her pretty lips ever step that Ajax took.

"You can't touch me." She whispered to him. "Achilles would kill you if you did." Briseis very much doubted this but it as worth a try.

Ajax approached shaking with anger.