Chapter 3- Strong Will and Love

Ravenna sat on the floor of the room she was put in. She looked around at the dull, dark; yet surprisingly wide open space she was in. She looked harder and saw a bed, made up nicely, with silk sheets and fur. From the looks of the room the family that had taken her was very rich and that was the only other thing she knew about them except the fact they were Roman.

Then she looked over to the far wall and saw a window. She walked over to it and felt the cold air wrap around her body, the green trees swayed in the wind, and she was suddenly reminded of home. She remembered when she was training and Tristan watched her from high up in a tree. She remembered the day she was married. She remembered when the Romans came for Tristan. All of those days the weather had been like this. Then she remembered something else, A Roman soldier, a river, and an attack. She heard shouting and turned around a saw the soldier there.

Flashback

Ravenna had been bathing in the nearest river to the camp. Tristan would not let her go far because everyone's eyes were on her. She went down the riverside and took of her wool dress and her leather riding pants and carefully stepped into the cold water. As she did her whole body got chills and she quickly stepped out. Okay she was an Amazon but she was still human.

Then the guard showed up and grabbed her. She screamed for Tristan but his hand muffled her screams. Next she kicked him and he let her go. She fought him until he got in one good hit and she fell to the ground. Tristan then ran up behind the guard and told him to back off. The guard ran away and Ravenna was left to lay unconscious on the ground.

end flashback

When the she finally came out of her flash back she remembered where she was. These were Romans and they do terrible things to the women they capture. She tried to find someway to escape but all there was, was the window and it was too far down and it was too small. Nothing was right at that moment, yesterday she had six weeks until she could go home, she and Tristan celebrated an anniversary, and now she was locked up in some rich Roman boys room awaiting an unknown fate.

"Tristan please come for me. I need you. I am so lost." She screamed at the top of her lungs.

Then there were foot steps coming down the hall and they were getting closer and louder. Then the door handle was lifted and a man walked in the room. He walked over to her and put his hands on her, greedily touching every part of her body. She fought with him and tried to run out the door but she was stopped by to guards. Then there was a voice in the background; the voice of the Roman boy, "You will serve me girl. You will bend to my every wish. I will have you." He said angrily.

"I will never serve you, you Roman filth. You can't have me. I will not betray my husband." She yelled back at him.

"Guards, take Miss…I'm sorry bitch but what is your name?" he asked her.

"Ravenna, but that is Princess Ravenna to you." She spat.

"Take Miss Ravenna down to the monks. Leave her there over night and then bring her to me tomorrow. See if a night of torture will change her mind." He looked at her, "Shame though something so pretty should have to go through that. I will give you one more chance."

"I will never serve you." She screamed and it echoed through the whole room and down the hall.

"So be it. Take her." He said.

"Tristan make me strong. You said our love would keep me safe and I will always believe that. So now make me strong. Give me the will to be strong and the will to keep my mind from changing." She whispered as she was taken out of the room, down the stairs, out of the house, and to where the monks were waiting. She knew that tonight she could stay strong but what might happen later?

Then she remembered what she had to tell Tristan when he come to the room that night, she had to tell him she was pregnant.