Chapter 7

I have to find a way to escape from here!

Now I have been here for a month or maybe more .. I don't know anymore, all my powers, my strength here, in this cold and dark prison is useless.

I thought Victoria would leave us alone, or at least she would leave my mate, Sain'ja .

Every time I go back to the past about how we met, approaching each other, how we celebrated our marriage ceremony ... all these memories I have imprinted there and live in my mind and this makes me scream in pain to find myself here alone and useless now.

I remember that I had started studying alchemy like never before, day and night, thinking of becoming stronger with infinite knowledge.

Done so it was, all my efforts were rewarded once, the hunter I most wanted to have as a companion, noticed me and we begin to have a very close relationship until it was love itself.

Now after 2 years of being together we find ourselves prisoners of our own enemy, I had begged her not to take him away, but to take only me.

Instead nothing, I am chained to the feet and to the neck with some engraved hieroglyphs so that I cannot use my powers.

I don't know where Sain'ja is, he is not here with me, but there are many other women in prison who are alone or with children.

I don't even want to think about what they could do to such innocent little creatures.

Other days or perhaps weeks pass without knowing anything about my partner or my destiny, until one of the 3 guards at the head of this prison arrived with two little girls by his side.

Opening the prison door, she pushed the two girls inside, with such force that they knocked them to the ground, I couldn't move much because of the chains.

They stood aside, shivering and crying with their heads in their arms and staying close to each other.

"It's okay! Don't be afraid of me, I would never hurt you ... please", I addressed them in a voice as quiet as possible, but they were so afraid and their bodies didn't stop shaking, their clothes were wet, dirty with mud and maybe blood too.

"My name is Argentea, and you? I kept talking, but this time I saw their faces, their eyes were so bright, one was blue with the sky and the other seemed to have an eclipse in her eyes.

Magnificent!

"If you want, talk to me, come closer and I will help you sleep a little", I tried to be comforting and to establish security in their eyes, but nothing, they remained there in a corner crying and returning close to each other.

More days pass and the two girls now have a name, Eleyra and Mayra, they are not sisters, they told me that both were taken by an evil and devious woman, who had deceived them, making them believe that she would help them to find their family and a new home, instead ... now they are in this mess forgotten by everyone and I sincerely hope that someone will come to take them back, that someone will come to save us, please.

The two girls are now hugging me and I can not but comfort them with a lullaby hoping that this nightmare will remain a distant memory that never happened.

" Wastelands of Light in the Dark

Children of Time torn apart

So lost and incomplete

Our missing plans for peace

My father, broken heart

An abstract piece of art

Oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh

And they know

Through the blight

They all know "

Finishing to sing, I notice that the little ones have fallen asleep and so slowly I too feel my eyes closing.

When I wake up, opening my eyes, I see that the little ones are no longer there, only me is left in the cell, the panic and the fear that someone might harm them was assaulting me, but while I was looking around someone opened the door of the cell and she was one of the guards, she walked in with a wicked smile and her eyes were black as darkness ... what kind of place is this for heaven's sake!

"You're having a good time here huh ?! Your witch powers aren't working here plus your stupid alien companion is ready to hunt you down! And are you ready to be the prey? .. hahaha! See you tomorrow for the big day , I recommend not to die in a hurry and let us have fun! "

"Where are the girls? What have you done to them?"  I in turn asked them about the little ones and another of the guards turned to me, she too with a treacherous smile, she answered in turn.

"You do not have to worry about them. We will take care of those brats, they will become strong and skilled killers ... the mistress has big plans for them. You instead see not to die on your first hunt", what does that mean?

As they left, standing alone I noticed one thing, my belly was ... I was expecting a baby, oh god no, oh paya what am I to do?  Who do I have to call for someone to help us?

And so I started crying again in my solitude waiting for the day to come.

The next morning three of them will come to take me, all three prison guards, I didn't resist when they pulled me up by force, I didn't have the fighting spirit, I felt dead inside, destroyed.

Arriving in another section of the prison I noticed that there was only a long tunnel, dark, damp and with a sickening smell.

They pushed me inside and while I was trying to figure out what I had to do, I turned towards them one last time before walking down the long corridor, hoping perhaps to find a leak and be able to escape.

I don't know how long I've been walking, but in the total silence I felt a shadow that was about to loom, I began to worry that might be one of the guards who wanted to make a bad joke on me.

Instead, from a distance I hear very low and dangerous clicks, fiery red eyes were burning in the dark and I saw him, those eyes were his, his posture was ready to run to kill his prey, now I understand.

While this assumption came to me with a clear mind, I began to run, the long corridor now divided into two roads, I chose the first on the left, and I almost fell into a ravine, managed to jump it and continued my run.

In time, on the other hand, I heard powerful footsteps and a roar that made my whole body vibrate, even the walls were shaking.

I felt Sain'ja approaching and I was trying more and more to find a road that indicated that it was safe, but I found only ravines, traps and closed roads, in fact the road I have now taken, choosing the right for once, the corridor ends with very high walls and bars.

Damn ... in the silence there was only my labored breathing until Sain'ja's footsteps stopped right behind me.

I was turning around with tears in my eyes and once in front of him, I notice that he has a chain around his neck, there too are hieroglyphs that are now lit, as if the spell is in action.

I knew that the monster of this place enjoyed torturing, but not to this point, corrupting his partner, his beloved, until he has chased and killed his family without being aware of it.

"Sain'ja! It's me Argentea! Please listen to me!"  , I was approaching him, but what he did was snap in a flash and grab me by the neck until he pulled me up and squeezed me until he almost broke my bones.

My heart was about to burst and I screamed to call him back, I tried to touch him and one of his tube-shaped "hair" managed to grab him and so he stopped for a moment, brought his face and jaws close to my face, until we were face to face.

For a second he seemed to be my hunter ever, my beloved warrior and now I notice that his body has scars it did not have before, his mark of his Chiva has been burned, and with it his honor and his spirit ... I wish I could save him ...

"Sain'ja listen to me! I'm Argentea and I'm waiting our child ...did you hear me?"  , I resume talking to him still hoping to be able to call him back to the present and it seems to work.

His furious eyes are now back to the ones I knew, emerald green, so beautiful and bright, now in addition to that color I see eyes with a veil of sadness and tiredness at the same time.

For a moment he let go of his grip on my neck and brought me even closer to him, we looked at each other like never before and we lean on each other, for a moment it seemed that everything stopped, that everything was just a memory, but this moment lasted a second because a shock came to my neck and gave me such strong shocks that I was knocked unconscious.

When I wake up I find myself back in the same cell as before, alone and with a slight pain in my neck, but I know for sure that the next day the game continues.