Predators

Even now she can still remember, the time when the elder of her tribe had given her a task to go to the outside world – to search about his vision of a certain element, an element that might become a foundation for the next calamity he prophesized. Just as her role in the tribe as one of the priestesses, she paid heed on his request and made her travels to the human world.

Her parents were so proud back then, they have seen her not a girl but a capable woman who bears a mighty fate, but they don’t know how deeply unwilling she is to this request. She only accepted it for her parents to not lose face in front of the council, especially to her father. He’s proud as a lion, never once he had thought her to show any kind of remorse, only a heart of steel could protect her from her enemies. Even now, she could still remember the hard whip from his wooden sword hitting on her back – to her jaw – and her frail arms during the day time.