the runaway

*reading while listening to some celtic medieval song*

*imagine your own character in this story*

Imagine being a peasant running away from your lords land and seeing yourself inside the neighboring kingdom's popular inn. You got no money but a old lad sit in front of you, offering you a cup of ale. You were terrified at first and refused his offer, but he later on introduced himself as a commander of a platoon of the army. He recruited you by giving you some bread and 10 pieces of gold. He told you to come see him next morning exactly at this same table, promising to give you gold if you join his platoon. Next morning you came and met up with him. You agreed to his offers and joined his command. While training under his command for almost a week now, he made an announcement that you guys will attack the nearest fortress of the neighboring kingdom. At the day of the attack, the army you are in is marching toward the said fortress. The fortress is connected to the a small village, consisting mostly of peasants and farmers. During the mid of the noon, when the sun is at the middle of the sky, your group started to charge furiously to the gates of the fortress. The guards inside the gates are unaware because the scout towers are disable and the scouts are killed by your precise archers. The raid is successful, soldiers slaughtering every guards and peasants in sight. The village is set on fire, houses, stores, stables are burning. Blood and dead bodies scattered around the streets. You, however happened to get in to your own block. You remember the place deep inside your mind. You remembered your children and your wife living in to these block. You went searching for them, you look for them in from your own house, they are nowhere to be found. You became wary, then suddenly something crossed your mind, it was the lord. Maybe he took your family because you ran away from your service. You've gone mad, your mind only focused to the tallest building on the top of the hill, it was the lord's house. Quickly without getting your commander's attention, you sneaked away and went to the hill. There you saw four guards running downhill to respond to the call of back up from the village, you hide under the grass and let them pass through. After that, you proceeded to the gates and it was totally unguarded, you were surprised and let a weird grin in your face. Immediately, you search for the lord, in storage, kitchen, bathhouse and to the stable. You went upstairs and explore every room until you run into an isolated room. The door was locked with three old padlock barely closed enough to lock. You opened the room, and there you found blood on the floor and bodies hanging around, children and women. You looked farther in to the room where you saw a torture machine, and then not so far from the machine, you saw two bodies barely recognizable because of their severed form. You searched the bodies and you found a charm-like amulet. It was an amulet you gave to your son, your youngest child. You burst into tears and your grief turned into madness and revenge. But before you were fully consumed by angers, you realized that the other body was of a boy, a glimpse of hope shined into you. You thought that your daughter was alive and managed to escape. After that you took the amulet and carried your son's body to the outside of the building. You lit the stable's forages and put your son to burn, you mourn for a second and went back for searching for your wife. Not a very long time until you found the lord's room. It has double doors, making it the biggest and distinguishable because of it's rare form. You opened it since it was unlocked, you barely pushed the door until you suddenly heard loud moans from the bed far to the left of the room. You became suspicious and entered the room unnoticeable; there you saw a woman working her hips above a man's bosom. You recognized the woman's body and voice, you told yourself that it can't be your wife and continue to do so, until the woman speak compliments to the man, praising his body and saying things that make any other man excited. There you started to doubt yourself, then you approached the side of the bed slowly, until you see the woman's face. Your eyes couldn't believe what you just saw, the thoughts and doubts you had began rushing to your mind throughout your body. It was indeed your wife, aimlessly shaking her hips above the lord. You once again had been consumed by madness, you raised your body and pulled out the sword you had and immediately slashed the woman into half. The lord was surprised with terror and threw the body aside. He descended from the bed, *****, and run towards the corner of the room. He was so terrified and barely utter any words, he just screamed, without full words coming from his mouth. Not before long until you approached him, walking with your sword on your side, dripping with the blood of your wife. There's nothing really coming into your mind during that time besides revenge and anguish. You confront him for everything he had done to you, but he doesn't understand a thing because he could not recognize you due to your helmet on. He once more screamed, this time for help, a second before a single word utter from his mouth, you immediately stabbed him in his throat. Blood gushing out like a fountain he had in his front yard. Then you slide your sword downward, ripping his chest open, and you took his heart. You crushed it in your anger-fueled hand. After that you turned around and went to your wife's upper body which you cleaved into two. You look at her beauty that made your eyes teary, then you closed her eyes which are open while looking into nowhere. Unlike your son, you left her body at the mansion and decided to burn the mansion down. You made a torch and lit it in the stables. You lit the stables and the mansion afterwards. It was already an hour before sunset, the raid finally ended and you see band of allied soldiers shouting glorious chants around the streets of the blood-soaked village below the hill. You thought of coming back to your group but you saw them in the distance packing the goods the plundered and started to camp outside the fortress while letting the whole village burnt into crisp. There, you thought of not coming back anymore and thought of finding your daughter instead. You knew that your daughter was a very brave girl that would survive out there. Even of thinking of that, you still decided to search after her. Before the sun finally kiss the horizon, you sneak into your commander's camp and leave a letter containing your apologies and the ring finger of the lord as a sign that you already killed the highest individual in the village. You also included in the letter that you will search for your lost daughter and ask that do not expect for you coming back to the army. And that you walked away towards the forest, carrying your smuggled goods from the commander's tent and your weapons. You looked back at the camp once more before disappearing to the forest's darkness.

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