2. Feint
As Lily arrived at home she put on her pink and golden shining dress. She tried to hide her hair but the length of it didn´t allow that. So she let it hang down. The necklace that the woman gave her fit perfect to her dress.
Lily left her room and then her house. The long dress reminded her of the man her father wanted to be engaged with her. But it was impossible for Lily to let a man she didn´t love or even like come near her. So she sent him away. She didn´t want to feel something like love for a man because no man would fit to her and accept her character. Of course she didn´t want her father to angry but it was good that he accepted the view of his daughter.
She arrived at the church. Now she was really afraid. Not of the singing but of those people who would look at her and whisper the word witch. She hadn´t told her father about the inquisition she had met.
But Lily wasn´t allowed to think about that. It would make it even worse. She grabbed the lower part of her dress and climbed the stairs into the church.
It was dark outside as it was her turn. She took one deep breath and walked into the chapel where she had to sing. Lily looked at the piano on wich a man sat who was ready to play.
She took another deep breath and showed the piano player to start. A slow melody came out of the piano and echoed through the church. Lily began to sing Feint
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The piano played the last notes. Then a big silence got in the situation. Lily loved this song and hoped that the other people would so, too. The song was about her mother. While singing she didn´t realize the man of the inquisition who had entered the church. One of them walked over to Lily and grabbed her by her arm.
She tried to pull away but he was stronger. Silent as a grave she let herself take away. The other men followed them out of the church and through the market.
Far away from Lily´s home stood a dark house that seemed left alone. They opened a door behind the house and pushed her into the room.
Everything around her went dark as the men closed the door again. Lily had fallen to the ground as they threw her in the chamber. She rose and looked around. Every eye from every woman who was caught there, too were locked on her. They had to be witches like her. Or at least the inquisition had to think that they are ones. Another door that lead to the room was opened and another woman was thrown into it. This one started to weep. One of the older women took her in her arms to give her comfort.
"What is going to happen to her?", asked Lily a woman in her age. "They will take her to Hungary. And there they will burn her", she answered nearly whispering.
"And ...will they burn us, too?", Lily asked scared. She shook her head: "I can´t tell you. The men who brought us here take one girl after another out of here and decide if weare going to become servents of the Count or if we´ll be burned."
"What Count...", Lily wanted to ask but the door opened again and one of the men pointed at her. Her eyes were widened in shock. Slowly she walked to door until they pulled her violently through it.
In this room stood even more men of the inquisition. And in the middle stood a man completely dressed in black. His black hair he wore back in a ponytail and his golden earring made him seem more mysterious. Slowly he began to circle her...
