[img=http://i.imgur.com/eeX4Zmf.png] [I]Must I relive this moment yet again...[/I] The stairwell seemed like it would never end, but it did -- strong hands yanked Selan up, and dragged her to her room. She kicked and screamed, hoping she would wake everyone inside the castle, and everyone in the kingdom across the forest. She spotted a pair of icy blue eyes watching them from the end of the dark corridor, glinting in the moonlight. A scuffle ensued the moment he threw her into the bedroom. He saw the way his prize looked at him now, her fears fully realized as she now knew what he truly was. It made him furious. But her blood boiled stronger. She knew where his knife was, she knew what to do with it. She would do to him what he and his men had done to countless numbers of her sisters. She made a grab for his belt, but he swatted her away with the back of his hand, sending her sprawling to the floor. She scooted backward and bumped into the mirror along the wall, and it fell with a deafening crash. Her violently trembling hand searched along the floor until it found the sharp edge of a large shard, cutting her skin. She ignored the pain. He approached her with his knife drawn and kneeled before her. He leaned forward, bringing his face close, too close. With a terrible, feral scream, Selan drove the shard into his body as far as it would go. The knife fell with a clatter to the floor, and he slumped his body against the wall. "My beautiful songbird, why don't you sing for me?" he whispered, smiling sadly as his blood stained the floor red. "[I]Till death do us part... Selah.[/I]" ... Everything was gone. Or at least, everything that mattered. She found her people's settlement in ruins, burned to the ground and riddled with the corpses of the elders. All of the women and children were gone, just as the girl in the basement said. Selan's face was several shades of blue as she limped towards the docks. Her bare feet were covered in cuts from glass shards and the rough terrain, and she was weak from dehydration, but she dared not stop. Men were loading crates onto a large ship, and the captain barked something to make the crew move faster. The skies looked angry, and the wind rocked the waters. She approached the captain, who first looked at the young girl with anger, then shock, then pity at the sight of her bruises. Selan found herself being escorted onto the ship. Thunder began to rumble, and the first flash of lightning illuminated the cramped cabin. Selan hugged her knees, terrified and shaking as the ship headed straight for [url=http://oyster.ignimgs.com/mediawiki/apis.ign.com/assassins-creed-4/thumb/4/45/AC_4.PS4.HD_SCREENCAPS.131.jpg/468px-AC_4.PS4.HD_SCREENCAPS.131.jpg]an enormous water spout.[/url] [I]Wake up, wake up, wake up, [b]please[/b][/i]! --- [img=http://i.imgur.com/aBIXoi8.png] It continued on and on. Lisette would open her eyes, and one of her friends would torment her before inflicting enough pain to send her back into unconsciousness. Rinse and repeat. "I'm done with you, love. If you didn't spend so much fucking time whining about what you didn't want to do or mean to do, you wouldn't be in this mess." "You're just a knock-off of Estelle. She was tired of being your friend a long time ago." "Poor Lissa, all alone! No stinkin' bugbread or vechtabuls either!" "A stupid, pathetic girl like you shouldn't be a Guilder. You'll mess up again and again. Which one of us you think is gonna be the next Marcus?" [I]"Stop!"[/I] Lisette sobbed, covering her eyes with her hands. "I can't take it anymore! I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" One by one, they all faded away, leaving her alone in the Woods of Weir with nothing but the buzzing voices in her head. She tried to escape, but no matter which direction she chose or how long she ran, she always returned to the same clearing. --- [img=http://i.imgur.com/9AVqdzv.png] The time finally came when the man with the knife dragged Kapi out of the pen. Kapi had lost the will to struggle, finding solace in the thought that he would soon join his family. The man sat Kapi on a large grey table, lit up by nothing but a small lamp hanging overhead. The rest of the room was hidden in darkness. Kapi shivered from the coldness of the surface almost as much as he shivered from the fear of death. He didn't know what a knife felt like. Would it be fast? Or slow and painful? The man grinned wickedly, sharpening his knife with a rod-shaped object. The door burst open, and Kapi saw a silhouette of what seemed like a giant rabbit. But she stepped into the light, and Kapi could see her golden hair, her freckles, and her large aqua eyes that sparkled. She aimed a bow and arrow at him, and looked confident. The man turned his back to Kapi to face her, and Kapi hopped off the table to the floor. [I]My hero![/I] But the baby capybara could only watch as the man easily overpowered his heroine, throwing her onto the table, and using his sharpened knife to... to...