Ghada looked over at Amaryills with a feeling that felt like she had just been punched in the stomach. Amaryllis looked at Ghada with a look of horror on her face, she hadn't expected this at all.

Wycliff stepped forward to discuss the change in plans of Slade.

"The girls merely thirteen...Surely you could come back for her in a few years time."

Slade looked mistrustfully at Wycliff.

"By then you will probably have married off all your daughters to other men who are wealthy as myself to prevent that from happening. I'm no fool, and I say we want her now."

Ghada sensed the dangerous tone in his voice as did Wycliff. Wycliff looked up at Amaryllis who was trying very hard to keep a straight face and not to burst into tears.

"Very well," said Wycliff, " But first you must show me the fortune you promised me. Delora, Leonora, Amory, Ghada, go help your sister pack."

With that, the five men and the page boy walked outside to discuss the matter.

All the girls rushed upstairs to Amaryllis' room, and each girl was planning some means of escape for their unfortunate sister. Amaryllis stood in the middle of her room stunned.

"But I don't want to go," she said looking confused and miserable.

"Then run away," said Ghada, " You still have time," said Amory.

"But then he'll take one of you, and he will be most displeased with father."

All the girls looked out the window at the ground below, hearing a loud conversation which was also drawing the servants attention. Leonora gasped when she saw one of the men distinctly hit Wycliff with a powerful blow which knocked him to the ground.

"Father!" yelled Leonora, racing out of the room and down the steps, followed by Delora, who surprisingly was well aware of what was going on. Amory after a moment raced after the girls, but not before picking up a metal candle stick holder.

"For something to throw,"smirked Amory, leaving the room.

It was in that instant of seeing her father get hurt that Amaryllis made up her mind.

"Ghada, help me pack my things."

Both girls ran around the room throwing everything they could find into a large cloth bag. Amaryllis growing more anxious and impatient with each minute passing by kept glancing out the window as the heated argument carried on. Both girls heard a shout from a man who had evidently been hit in the head with something hard.

"WHAT THE DEVIL WAS THAT?" yelled Knox so loud that it echoed the court-yard.

"Well I'm glad to see that Amory made use of that candle stick holder," said Ghada, smiling with Amaryllis for what could be the last time.

"Ghada, I don't want to leave," said Amaryllis embracing her sister.

"And I don't want you to go, but things aren't looking to good," replied Ghada.

Amaryllis was helped carrying her bags downstairs by Ghada and both girls stood at the main door looking at one another.

"Write me if you can," said Ghada, "I want to know if you are alright and if you aren't I will find you."

Slade approached the two girls and roughly took Amaryllis by the arm and looked disgusted by the amount of material items she had to take with her.

"Alright girly, you get one of those bags, The rest remain here."

Ghada stood glaring at the man hating him. Slade caught the look on Ghadas' face and roughly pushed her away from Amaryllis' side. Wycliff saw the motion and marched over to where Slade stood.

" I've changed my mind, Amaryllis is not going with someone like you, and never lay a hand on any of my daughters again," said an outraged Wycliff.

Slade merely smirked, "I had a feeling you would say that, so I hereby withdraw my offer of great wealth and will take this girl as my slave. Although if you have a problem with me doing so, the rest of your family dies right now."

Wycliff stood defiant, and Slade looked irritated.

"Very well by means of example..."

Slade walked over to Delora and pulled her close to him, all the time Delora looked off into the distance as if in a whole other world not knowing what danger she was being put in. Slade withdrew a silver dagger with a carved snake coiled around an emerald at the hault. He then slid it across the throat of Delora.

Everyone watched in horror as the dark red liquid cascaded down the skin of Delora, while in the meantime she was making funny noises trying to breathe.

Ghada looked around her at the expressions on the men that were with Slade. Knox and Orrin showed no emotion whatsoever while Hayward grimaced and turned to face away from the scene. Calix, the page, however, looked quite distraught and joined Hayward in looking the opposite way.

Minutes later she slid to the ground while a pool of red formed around her now saintly looking figure.

Wycliff stood in his place horrified looking at his daughter who was murdered before his own eyes then he looked at Amaryllis and then at the rest of his daughters.

" I am so sorry—

He was cut off by the withdrawal of Amaryllis from the touch of his hand to her cheek. She looked at Deloras body, all the colour now drained from her face.

"Good, that's settled then," said Slade

Slade turned around and saw Hayward and Calix looking the other way.

"Hayward!Calix! Look in the general direction of your leader when he makes a statement, one would think you're no supporting him by looking somewhere else. Especially you Calix, you're going to be seeing this a lot when you're older, this will be your job."

Ghada looked at Calix disgusted that he would be doing that in the near future.

"After all knights kill all the time."

Calix looked at the ground trying to not look at the body. Then all the men but Slade left to go to the carriage.

Amaryllis looked tearfully away from the manor to the carriage, which stood to take her away from everything she knew. Something in her mind told her she would never see the manor again, nor anyone of whom she loved in it again.

Amaryllis walked over to each of her remaining sisters and said goodbye to each of them with a hug, lastly she walked over to Ghada, whom she would find the most hard to leave.

" Goodbye."

Ghada looked up painfully from Delora, and was about to hug her sister for the last time when she was snatched away by Slade. He began to drag her forcefully towards the carriage, and seeing her sister looking back at her the whole time a sudden rage grew within Ghada.

" I WILL FIND YOU!" Yelled Ghada from the top of the stairs.

Amaryllis was shoved into the carriage and she immediately withdrew to the window to see her youngest sister running down the stairs.

" I WILL KILL YOU AS YOU KILLED DELORA!"

Slade merely glanced at the child and commanded the driver to go. The carriage rolled away with the screams of Amaryllis inside. Ghada ran after it until it was out of sight and collapsed out of anguish for she had lost two of her sisters that day.