Chapter 2

Athanasia ran as fast as she could. Her little feet carried her down the long hall without knowing where exactly to go. She was thinking of hiding in one of the rooms in the palace, but that went out of the window once she heard footsteps echoing behind her.

“Hey, you come back here!” one of the men yells at her.

‘I would be dumb to do that.” she thought sarcastically to herself, as she kept on running.

The hall was wide and dark with barely any candle to light the way, but she found that it was a good thing for her. She ran over to one of the curtains hanging by the wall and hid behind it. She waited shakingly as the guard ran past her hiding spot, before peeking her head out.

“There she is!” one of the guards cried out when he spotted her behind the curtain.

As if on cue, she made a run for it down the opposite direction. Her legs were getting tired from the immense exercise it was receiving, and it was greatly slowing her down. Even if she possesses the body of a child, it doesn't mean she can run like one.

As her running was slowing down, one of the guards was able to grab her by pinching her back.

“Ha, finally got you.” the man said with an almost satisfied smirk forming on his face.

His grip on her back was almost crushing, and she was sure there’ll be bruises left behind after this.

“Let Athy go, you’re hurting Athy!” she cried out, as she started struggling in his grip.

The man lifted her to his eye level and she was able to see the man glaring at her in irritation.

“Look here, this is what's going to happen blondie, ” he said, trying to sound nice, “You’ll nicely let me bring you back to the boss, and we’ll go our separate ways.”

“And what’ll happen to Athy?” she asks.

At her question, the man's expression changes to almost a menacing look. “Since you’re the daughter of that bastard, the boss will probably kill you just like what he’s doing to that bastard right this second,” he said, “And since I was the one who brought you back, I’ll probably receive a noble title as a reward, and best of all I’ll ask the boss to let me keep your eyes as a souvenir on my shelf.”

While the man was explaining in full detail what would happen to her once he handed her over to his (Boss), she was trembling in his grip like a trapped prey.

“Athy doesn't want to die.” she was able to mumble out.

The man looks at her with an amused expression as he leaned his face to her eyes level. “Oh, and what are you going to do about that?” he said mockingly.

“This.”

Before he even knew it, she kicked him right in the face. The pain made him lose his grip on her, and she landed on the floor.

He fell to his knees and was covering his face with both his hands in pain. He then turns to her with rage clearly showing in his expression.

“How dare you!” he said, in both rage and pain.

“Sorry evil man, Athy got to go now,” she said, innocently standing up, before flipping him off. The man kneels there stunned, mouth gasping in shock. Before he could say any more things to her, she ran away past him with a pleased expression.

As she made her way down the hall, she suddenly paused on her step. The once straight hallway that she was following was now split in two.

‘That’s weird.’ she thought in confusion.

Before, Lily would lead her down this same hall to the palace's secret back exit. Usually, Lily and she would only use that way whenever the main door to the garden was being cleaned. But if her memory was correct then the hall used to only be a straight path down to the back exit.

Glancing at both of the halls intensely, she narrowed her eyes in concentration.

“Left or right…”

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