Asrig's gaze was searching, seeking out an answer in Neveah's eyes which she did not have. His stare was unnerving and Neveah held his gaze with difficulty, unwilling to bend to even her mind's disturbing conjuring of him. The stench of decay was getting difficult to ignore, and Neveah still could not tell where it originated from.
"Do you believe in fate, girl?" Asrig asked when Neveah remained silent. "In a script from the heavens dictating your life?"
Neveah hesitated. "I..." The answer to the question was not easily decided. Neveah had long given up on fate, or the belief that anything else held responsibility for her life except her own self. She had realised in the hundreds of times she pleaded the creator for mercy, that no one, and nothing was coming to save her.
That was until they came...