Chapter 1 : The Beginning

She struggled with the leash which contracted as much as she tried to put it away. There were screams and voices of people in her ears which reached her mind but not her heart, voices she now doesn’t recognize, Voices that were once the life of…home...her home. She screamed trying to shut those voices a zillionth time, but they didn’t stop, she knew they were not meant to be stopped, they were meant to throw her into oblivion…into darkness until she gained her immunity to fight with those voices again and again and again.

She did not know her name, did not know what this place was, and did not know where she came from, what she knows are the voices in her head, voices of a female, maybe her mother screaming at her to do the chores as she rolled on her bed dismissing her with a bang of the door. She misses that voice.

Raiya entered the place…whatever place this was, and she stiffened, trying to hide as much as possible in the darkness of the corner. The catacombs were filthy, they made Raiya cringe. Every time she had to free a prisoner, she burdened that task upon someone else. But Laitza, she was different. Raiya still can't figure out why she comes everyday and at the same time to question her about something she doesn’t know, about something she doesn’t care, about something she did care. Raiya sits on the table and settles her elbows on her knees and leans forward.

“It has been long enough and you are not even looking up at anyone how are we even going to work?” she shrank even further and continued to gaze at the dirt in her nails.

“Laitza?” a name? A name someone used to scream with love, hate and agony, a name she doesn’t remember.

“Stand up” Raiya took one of her hands, the first time after a long, long time someone touched her not to push her even further down but to make her stand.

She stood up, Raiya was a good half-feet taller than her and Laitza's body, which now hung loosely underneath the rags she called clothes was in no comparison with Raiya’s muscle-y but feminine built. A body which was trained, beautified and nourished under the sun. She still gazed at her toes.

“A message from the deccans has come, the time has come, we are ordered to move there. I cannot leave you here, but before I take you with me, you have to talk to me and tell me everything. Only then I will take you with me.”

How can she tell her anything? Something she herself doesn’t know. She wanted to go with her, anywhere she wanted to go, because if there was a person in the indland who didn’t want her dead, it was Raiya.

At last, she lifted her gaze and what she saw was beyond this land.

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