The curse

"What am I going to do?" Starry paced the floors of her room.

Things have got out of hand ever since someone stole into her private space, and took her poison.

Now, a guard has been killed with the same poison.

"Justin, what's happening?" She tried to reason on things.

Everything that's happening is so strange, for it to be considered normal.

There is no way all this can be a coincidence.

Probably, the person who did this knows about her.

"I'm not safe, any more." She knows staying in this secret place, isn't safe any more.

That's why she has been tirelessly seeking the hiding places she used when she was just a child, living in the palace.

*******

Osy gasped for breath.

His entire body aches, and it felt as if the bones in his body have been ground to mush.

He tried to sit up, but couldn't do so.

The guards who were taking care of the prison brought the third food of the day for him.