"Hey Missy! Come here!" Pug called from his horse.
Sheena was instantly suspicious. She scowled. Maybe he wanted to know where her sisters were... well, she wasn't going to tell them anything.
"No!" She called back. She gently nudged Shasta and they began to walk torward their home after gathering up the water they had already pumped.
"Hey! Little boy! Have you ever seen a puppy? I've got one here, in this bag!" Pug called. Shasta turned around. Sheena grabbed his wrist and shook her head. She didn't trust Pug one bit and wasn't about to let her little brother walk over to him.
But Shasta had never seen a puppy and twisted out of Sheena's grasp. He made a face at her and ran over to a jeering Pug. Sheena reached out and missed him. She sure didn't like the look on Pug's face. First of all, he had several teeth missing. He was also HUGE. Not only tall either. His shoulders were broader than you'd believe, and his height was about two heads taller than the average full-grown man. Sheena remembered more stories about Pug... Stories about Pug having giant blood in him...
"Shasta! Come back here at this moment!" Sheena called.
But, as I said, Shasta had never seen a puppy, and he wanted to very badly. Pug was holding a large and quite dirty brown bag up and Shasta ran over to it eagerly.
Then Pug lowered the bag at eye level to Shasta (as if about to show him something) and in one swift and fluid moment Pug slipped the bag over Shasta's head and scooped him up, then flipped him over and held the bag shut at the top. Shasta was screaming and crying. Sheena was shocked at screaming at Pug; not getting too close.
Two of Pug's comrades rode their horses over to Sheena and made to grab her, but she ran away. She was terrified. The horses were faster.
"Stop! All of you!" Pug shouted. He hit Shasta through the bag. Sheena was horrified, and both she and the horsemen stopped. She turned around slowly. Tears ran down her cheeks and dripped off her chin. Her eyes were red.
"Now girl! If you want to ever see your brother again alive, you had best cooperate and quickly." Pug explained. He still had the same horrible smirk on his face.
Sheena considering screaming so loud a member of her family would hear, only she knew that Pug would do something dreadful to her and Shasta.
Now Sheena wasn't perfect, as none of us are, and she very much considered running and saving herself. Then she was sickened with herself.
"Will you let him go then?" Sheena called over to Pug. Pug's horrible, tooth-missing grin only grew.
"Ah, yes! Of course!" He said soothingly.
Sheena really didn't want to walk over to Pug. She knew now that for some horrible reason he wanted some member of her family. And it happened to be her.
She felt the adrenalin rage in her... she suddenly felt as if she could run over to Pug and punch him so hard he'd fall right off of his white war-horse and she'd be able to rescue Shasta and herself... So she tried.
In reality, Sheena wasn't nearly as strong as she thought she was. She ran over to Pug and gave him a mighty shove, but he barely moved an inch, and now her wrists were stinging.
Nothing seemed to be able to break that horrible grin of his, yet now it looked a little forced. He grabbed Sheena and twisted her arms around behind her back forcefully and cruelly. He had twisted arms in a way they were not meant to be twisted. Both of Sheena's shoulders popped out of socket.
Sheena's face was contorted with pain, for Pug had not yet let go of her arms and let them out of that less-than-comfortable position.
"Let go!!" she half-screamed, half-cried.
But Pug only continued to grin.
He forced her wrists together and his big hand was able to hold them both. Sheena tried to twist and pull out of his grasp, but his hand held hers strongly. He had dropped the bundle with Shasta in it when Sheena had charged him, and now he used his free hand to grab a rope that had been looped around the reigns. He wrapped the rope around her wrists several times and pulled them tightly. They dug into her wrists and cut into her skin.
Pug let go of her. The rope hurt her arms badly so that she had to hold her forearms together to ease the pain. Pug took the other end of the rope, looped around the reins, and tied it securely around one of his own beefy wrists. Then he reached and grabbed up the bundle that held a wildly squirming Shasta and tossed it to one of his comrades. Now, Shasta was light, but not that light. Sheena daren't struggle with her wrists tied like that and her brother being tossed into the air by a man who held the other end of her rope.
Shasta let out a might cry, but the man who caught him caught him. The man grabbed the top of the bag then, and tied it shut with his own rope.
Sheena saw no more of Shasta right then, for Pug picked her up and set her on the back of his horse.
Sheena gripped tightly to horse with her knees, but she really was not the best horseman (horse-woman I suppose) in Narnia. Pug smelt of burnt hair... it was quite nausiating. You'd expect, him making so much money and all, that he'd wear better clothes right?
So the three horses and men with their three prisoners started off on a gallop. Sheena looked back for one last look at her home and instantly regretted it.
She felt more tears sting her eyes, and she almost fell off the horse. She had to lean on Pug, and that was a nasty experience.
Then she looked forward; into the oncoming night. It seemed never-ending and hopeless. She felt all her despairs rise in her and still the horses caried her farther from her beloved home.
Author's Note: Please review!!