Sorry took a bit to write this part, had a bit of a writers block. I would like more insperation to continue my writing.
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Ann shivered as she sat in the church that morning. Whether it was from the cold, or from her frightened thoughts she couldn't decide. It was getting cold in the mountain area; even if it was only fall in some places, but she knew that it wasn't so much the cold making her shiver.
That night, the night when the two men who tried to kill her, were murdered in front of her. How their eyes grew as they saw their leaders eyes and hands darken into a pitch black. The image remained in her thoughts, that night when she truly saw Capricorn for what he was.
A cruel heartless killer.
The rest of the men had a lecture that morning, while they all ate. They knew of what their comrades' fate had been, but never had they seen their leaders so enraged.
"My black jackets. You who serve me with honor, without hesitation, you who look up to me often, as if I am your very god! Last night, two of your brothers died by my hands."
Capricorns words cut across the tables where the men sat with their breakfast. When the fair haired man spoke of how he killed his own men, the others seemed to shift away from him.
Ann chuckled to herself. When the men were face to face with Capricorn, they were nothing but cowards. And yet some of them, when Dustfinger was taken to the church, called the match-stick eater a coward. But Dustfinger was braver than any man in that church.
Men noticed that the younger match-stick eater sat at the throne of their leader. How she looked paler than she usually did. Maybe it was because she witnessed her first close death experience the other night. Or maybe…it was because she was giving up hope of ever leaving.
"Yes, I killed two of our own men. But do you know why?" Capricorn asked. "It was because they tried to foil what I have worked so hard to achieve! They tried to kill the only thing that will make me powerful in our world! Thinking, that they were doing something better than our own interest.
"Well, let me explain this to you all now while you stuff your faces with food."
His cold colorless eyes shone with rage. Pointing a finger at the girl who sat at his feet. "If ANY on you, so much as lay a finger on her without my permission, I will give you the most slow and painful death that is possible. She is our only hope to gain power in the Inkworld, and without her, Dustfinger will not come to us. Without her, my plans will FAIL!
"Now, do I make myself understood!?" His voice rang out.
Cheers of the men echoed through the church.
The girl, not caring about anything that Capricorn said, merely amused herself by playing with a match.
"Is that all I am to you Capricorn? Bait? Bait to lure all that your hearts desire to your door?" The fire bit at Ann's fingers, tame like a kitten. Her emerald eyes looked up only to see his silver like eyes. Ann's voice sounded broken, empty and hollow.
Capricorn looked down at the girl.
No, she wasn't just bait. She was HIS.
HIS to keep, HIS to command, and HIS alone.
She would never go back to Dustfinger, or see her family again. She was with her family now. A family that was as black as crows.
"Of course!" The man chuckled, kneeling down to snatch the girls chin in his hand. "Without you how would we ever be able to have Dustfinger come to us? Or, have the reader that he is seeking out, read us back to Ombrea where my rule will begin?
His expression seemed to change. No longer amused, nor did it have the arrogance it once held.
Now his expression only held confusion and pity. His voiced also lowered.
"However, what happened last night was never supposed to happen. Nor did I want you to witness such brutality. But, when people threaten to take what is mine…then I sometimes get a bit violent."
Ann wretched her chin from the mans grasp.
"And whoever said that I belonged to you! I will NEVER, EVER belong to you! You cold hold me against my will for as long as you want. Torture me, strike me, threaten me, do whatever you want. I belong to no one." Ann stood up and walked through the doors of the church, leaving a raging Capricorn in her wake along with the smell of blood.
Hours later Ann sat on a hill near an old cottage that Dustfinger once told her about. A story of an old woman who refused to give up her home to the black jackets, and ended up burning to the ground with her home.
The story was hard for her to listen too, but when Dustfinger told her about it; it was the moral of the story that always made Ann smile.
Never give up, never give in.
Footsteps were coming closer to the cottage, but Ann made no notice of it.
Ever since the other night, Capricorn ordered that Flatnose, a horrible man with a squished like face, be her bodyguard.
"Whatcha doin over here little girl." The man spat, obviously not enjoying the fact that he was left to watch over a girl.
"Nothing much, Ugly." Ann murmured.
'Ugly' hearing what the girl said suddenly grabbed Ann by her hair and yanked her close to his horrible face.
"Now you listen here Ann! Just cause I have 'ta watch you all day, doesn't mean I have to listen to you mock me. Now either behave, or I'll switch spots with Cockerell. And I can assure you," he said with a grin, "That he will enjoy watching a girl much more than me." With a smirk, he let go of Ann's hair and started walking to the other side of the cottage, seeing a cat and intending to shoot it with his gun.
Ann wasn't going to let Flatnose get away with what he did to her. And when she noticed a rock lying next to her foot, about the size of one of a (ping dong...ping wong…ping PONG!) ping pong ball.
With an evil grin, she slowly reached down a grasped the rock in the palm of her hand.
Flatnose was just about to shoot the poor tabby cat, when a 'THUNK' hit his head.
Turing around, enraged, Flatnose saw Ann acting innocent as if she had no idea what was going on.
"DID YOU JUST THROW A ROCK AT ME!?" The man yelled.
Ann, no longer able to contain her smirk, merely smiled at Flatnose.
"Maybe I did, maybe I didn't. But, by the way, you have a lump on the side of your head." She pointed to the left side of her head to indicate the lumps position. "Might want to fix that up."
The man was no longer able to contain his rage and started chasing the girl.
Ann, merely laughing evilly, took off to the other side of the cottage with a big lugging man chasing her.
"Come on slow poke! Wouldn't want me to tell Capricorn that you can't keep up with a little girl now would you?" Ann teased.
Flatnose, only becoming angrier with the girl, didn't notice her hiding behind the other corner, stick out her foot and trip him up.
The next thing Flatnose knew, he was eating dirt below the girl's foot. Leaning next to the mans ear, Ann said, "Next time you grab my hair, it will be much worse. Trust me!"
The church doors opened slowly as Ann walked up to the front of the church, a smile on her face.
Capricorn was being questioned by some men when she arrived. Capricorn looked bored, leaning on one of his hands. But when he noticed her, her merely asked,
"Where is Flatnose? He was supposed to stay with you!"
"Oh don't worry about him, he got a little…tripped up with some things."
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