She could no longer see the gentle smile of her father face. All she could see then was an empty spot where his father face used to be.
What was once his face, are now just a lump of meat. It was disgusting and revolting. Her mother tried to protect her father only to be smashed with a mace and her mother head turns into mashed meat.
Her kind father and her gentle mother is dead.
Everyone thought that the girl will also share the same fate as her father. But she remembers.
She remembers what her father said to her before when she went back into the house.
Run, her father said. Run, her mother said. So, she jumped out from the jar and with the will of wanting to live, of wanting to survive, she runs.
She told herself that she needs to survive. She needs to survive and avenge this hatred someday.
But she needs to survive first
So what did she do? She ran. And she ran like the wind. Ran like the horses on the steppes of the ancient tale of mounted barbarians in the past
Even when her feet felt like it will give out, she forces herself to run. She run and runs because her parents told her to run.
So she keeps running even as the vines wounds her so in the forest, she runs even when she felt like her knees is getting weaker. She pushes herself and ran never once stopping.
Run, she thought.
Run if you want to survive.
'Live. Run. Live. Run'
She muttered every time she wanted to stop running
And once again her father face flashed in her mind. And then her mother. Then her friends. Her neighbors, her cousins.
So she ran faster. Not caring about her cramp, not caring about the shortness of breath she felt.
'I do not want to be like that. I don't. I need to survive. I need to live' she thought to herself this, tormented with fear she never once learned before.
Until finally she reached her uncle residence in the Capital City of Vanheim, panting and dirty with mud and blood.
Her eyes bloodshot and her entire body is trembling. Her clothes are filled with leaves
Her Uncle was a wealthy merchant that sometimes visited her family when he passed by the area.
She did not pass out not until she reached the residence of her uncle. Her uncle bathed her, feeds her and nurse her back to safety.
Then she told her story.
Hearing her story her Uncle reported this matter to King's army. The Kingdom response was swift and decisive. The army of nobles moved out and vanquished the Orcs
In a week, those terrifying Orc were either driven out, killed or captured.
She returned to her village. She saw only ashes and dust. The aura of Death seems to pervades the entire village,
her beautiful and peaceful village was but ash. She could not help but feeling empty. There is sadness but there is also this emptiness she could never fully describe.
She tried to find her father remains among the ashes, among the rubbles of the broken village but nothing was left but more ash and more dust
She sobbed, she cried, she wailed and she cursed at the Three Fates and the Seven Gods. Her Uncle was beside her at the time
Seeing that she has no other place to go her Uncle offered her to stay with him.
Not having any place to go, she followed her Uncle.
Her Uncle was a nice and kind man. He taught her to read. Taught her swordsmanship, taught her about the herbs and animals and about life and doing good.
But misfortune struck her again. It was like the Fates is tormenting her with her life. Her uncle was accused of harboring treasonous thoughts towards the new King, George.
He was executed, his estates taken from him. He was a nice and kind man and nice and kind man usually is schemed against by unkind and evil men
And once again Tatiana run and once again she survives. She survives but she had no home. The other relatives did not want her, saying that she brought misfortune.
So, she was left to die alone.
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Part one of the chapter
Chapter end
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