Hopelessness
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Head hangs wearily on bent knees. The mind contemplates how long it has been here, days, weeks, years? There is no light to mark the passing of time, only the slow drip of the water as it taps out a pattern on the stony floor. Tired hands fiddle slowly with the tattered edge of a worn tunic, imaging what colour it would be, probably black the mind mused.
Why hasn't he come for me?
The body stands slowly, feeling wounds re-open and spill more blood down the already bloodied skin. A sigh is emitted into the darkness.
I promised I wouldn't give up hope, I promised
Shuffling towards the wall, the body started again its search for a way out, something that had already been done countless many times with the same result, nothing. Round and round the stone walls until the demand of the body overcomes the determination of the mind and it collapses to the ground. Strained muscles protest and broken bones object to moving as the body lies helplessly on the ground.
He would not leave me, would he?
The mind begins to doubt, and from that doubt springs fear that seeps into the heart and curls its black tendrils round the soul. Tears begin to spill furiously from desperate eyes, sobs penetrate the darkness, interupting the slow drip of the water, as the body convulses and shakes.
Mayhap he thinks me dead, what would then be the point of living.
Sorrowful eyes weep and weep until there are no more tears left to shed, the loss of blood starts to take its toll on the exhausted body and blissful darkness surrounds the mind.
Slowly, gently, an almost unoticable door begins to open and another occupant enters the stone chamber. Cruel laughter rings through the chamber at the sight of the maid lying unconscious on the hard ground.
Once the mind breaks, the soul shall follow.
Studing the pitiful body on the floor, hair matted around her frame, bloodied clothes, bleeding wounds, eyes closed in sleep and pain, the figured smiled before slipping out and closing the stone door.