NATALIA
I am Natalia, daughter to the family of Daniel and Mary Ransbottom. I am the only happiness of their existence given to the family. I am upheld in the society as one of the most luxurious and respected maiden of Sandroville but my integrity was forever gone when I found love.
Edward was the only man I could ever love. He was the heartbeat of my heart. Whenever he blows his trumpet, i will willingly dance and follow his tune. I was living on a bed of roses, never knew that sweet things never meant to last.
His long term sercet which I never knew caught us in a nutsack ,distracted us. Dor his sake of his fear, he fled away, leaving me to face drumbeat of my sole jugdement by the ferocious audience of Sandroville...
Days earlier…
I didn't know what date was today. Even my mood felt funny. My eyes were extremely weak. It was like a drained out battery. I took a peep at the environment. This wasn't home. It was weird, really weird. Even though my eyesight was blurry, I could still see that I was in a wrong house.
It felt like this place was buiit for crazy people, criminals i guess. I felt like my body system had shut down. With less energy, i sat up, leaning my back to the wall. Then, i tried to stand up but unknowingly, something prevented me from applying my action. I tried the second time and it pushed me fiercely to the ground. I felt a tension on my hands. i looked at my hands and lo and behold, CHAINS!.
I was in Chains.
Unbelievable! What could I have done to get this treatment?, I thought.
I shaked my legs and I felt the same ragged chains bounded on my feet. Was I a criminal now? What is going on? Did I do anything wrong or has I been sold to the Trabumas? That would be the worst thing to ever happen to me. I was so scared. How was i in shackles in an unknown place when i should be in my family home? I screamed out on the top of my voice for help.
I shouted and shouted until I was finally saved. A woman with a gentle and innocent looking face came to my rescue.
She made a smile and due to her medical clothes, I guess she was a doctor but that was not my true answer I expected. She looked strange also. She looked different. This wasn't a townsfolk at all. With all my thoughts rolling through my memory, the strange lady came up to me:
"You are awake, good morning miss Natalia. This is magnificent. I thought you were already lost", said the strange lady in white.
"I'm sorry but am kind of confused. Do I know you?", I asked as the youn woman in white came to my rescue as she began to lay her hands on the chains tied on my legs. She made a smile to me to prove to me that she was quite friendly.
"Well, apparently, you don't. You don't even know my name", replied the stranger.
"So how would you explain to me why the fuck i am in an unknown house with chains all around me and even, an autonomous house occupant name! Please, get me the freaking hell outta me!", I revolted out in fury swinging the chains in pandemoinum. In tears, I struggled to get to my feet amidst my pain.
"You need to be calm. You just woke up after your over due ordeal. You and your baby needs rest", said the woman in white as she removes the chains entirely from my feet and hands. You should have seen my wrist and ankles, all wrinkled and bruised up but still, the answer needs to be precise, "How did you know I was pregnant?", I asked.
"Because I am a doctor, dear. I should have told you this from the beginning. let me re-introduce myself. I am Specialist. My name is Dinna", the woman in white replied with a smirk on her face.
"Specialist? Like a doctor? Dinna, You don't look like a doctor at all. You look... way different. was the woman who got you treated?", I asked due to my curious agenda. Dinna replied to my comment with a calm tone: "Oh you mean this? (points at her robe) that's nothing to be scared of. That's the law here. Work ethics. Nothing more, nothing less". Still, this mystery woman in question still gave me intense fear. I still couldn't decipher where or how I got here. All I knew for now was just the lady's name whom I could barely trust.
I exhaled hardly: "Hmm… It still feels somehow weird", I said. Dinna moves closer to me placing a bowl of water next to my feet.
"In time ,you will understand and get familiar to this system. Tell me, how are you feeling?", Dinna spoke up to me. She had her left index finger on my forehead. Was she trying to kill me? What was she trying to do? I couldn't understand one bit of her motives. Although, my body felt like a undeof needles.
"I feel a little weak. My legs are killing me and my head keeps hitting me hard", I replied to the Specialist while she continued her research. On her face, there was a frown. Clearly, something was wrong
"I guessed so.That must be due to the result of your ordeal", she replied, wiping a clean wet towel on my bruises. Instantly, I began to recall what happened to me at the market road.
"Yes, that's was very disgracing. I never so that coming", I replied wearing a sad face that no lie could alter. I made a low scream which was corresponding to the pain I felt from the bruises on my legs. Dinna places her palm on my belly.
"You have no problem at all. You should be grateful that your ordeal didn't cost you your unborn child. You only had a few slight injuries and some wounds in your knees and shoulders. Apart from that, nothing happened", Dinna said as her slowly takes the wet towel to my shoulders. I on the other hand was quite pleased at what she was doing and thankful, nothing serious happened.
"That's relieving but I can't remember not even the slightest but. What happened to me?", i asked the young woman. Draops of water fell down to the muddy floors. Soon, it turned into a small pond as each water droplets collided into each other moving towards the direction of a crack on the door. Dinna breathed heavily in an instant.
"You fell at the middle of the market road, at the brigde. I thought you would be able to remember this. So, you don't recall what happened that day?", Dinna asked another question again that put me in a loop. Still, I looked more confused than ever. I wasn't sure about my recent events. How could I? My head fell like it had been dropped on a mansion.
"No, I guess not. My memory is in scrambles but all I could recover from the scene was that the floor was so slippery. i'm sorry", I replied covering my head in shame but all became clear ti me when she finally informed me the real reason why I was on a total blackout.
"That was caused by your unconsciousness", Dinna said as she carries the bowl away from her reach to the far side of the room. I couldn't believe what I had heard.
"Wait... So you mean that I have been unconscious? For how long, madam?", I asked, still surprised and dumbfounded to the fact. I need more answers.
"From my calculations, it is three moons, Natalia", the doctor replied in a shocking detail which made me scream out of my breath, "FUCK! Oh my God! Three moons?!", I lamented.
"Certainly. I myself got so scared. I even thought you would never wake up and also,you are also close to delivery", Dinna responded with a moody appearance. I just sat still, unable to move despite the loose chains on my joints. I couldn't bare the fact that I was in this insane house for three bloody months! Doctor Dinna whom was now do with her job on my case now stanss up to her feet with her water bowl, "You need to have your rest. You just got back from your darkness. Please, have your rest ok? Let me get you lunch" (stands).
"My father! What about my father? I need to see him!", I asked about him instantly, looking like a pitiful bird on a tree branch. Dinna turns around to my face with a grin: "He is alright. He comes here often though".
"So he knows about...", I stared fearfully until Dinna cuts me off from my comments.
"Yes, he knows and he understands. He still loves you no matter what. Just keep that in mind. I gotta go now. Lunch and blankets coming right up", Dinna replied hastily. She opens the wooden door which make a loud creaky sound in front of her. Sooner than later, she was nowhere to be seen but I couldn't forget the wide smile on her face before she left the room. Still surprised and scared, I had no idea what to do next.
Three months in an unknown house with an unknown individual? This is kinda confusing. I guess this is a hoax, I thought. I'm really sure I have not been captured by the trabumas? I have heard stories that this set of people are the most dangerous and craziest individual in Darmich republic. No one goes into the city and comes out with a wide smile. Infact, every stranger thats enters into the city never comes out alive.
Researches and people have proven it.
The most terrific behaviour of this set of people is that they go into other cities and towns, disguised as farmers, hunters and tourists but their main aim was to kidnap innocent citizens and take them back to Trabuma for their nasty demise.
Some are sold into slavery, prostitution. Some are for instrument of torture and hard labour I.e warriors, miners but there is a highly famous for their indecent act as they are known for turning humans into something else:
Meat!
Yes,Trabumas are cannibals. I love their terms in production, conversion of human flesh to meat. The Trabuma Territory has been declared a "killer bay". I just pray that I am not in the state of no redemption. I don't want my skin to be streaming hot in a pot of porridge in some crazy ass Trabuma's kitchen.
I just hope so because something's fishy about this bitch of a woman, Specialist Dinna...
Three months have passed. I was almost due. Days and weeks passed. I haven't even since the sunset or the moon. I couldn't even inhale the sweet morning breeze of the north wind. As the days moved faster and peacefully, the more inquisitive I became.
I wasn't even sure if i was in a house anymore. This is a prison but was it mine? It got me worried that after my recovery, I was still bounded in shackles. I couldn't take this anymore.
I need to know the truth.i decided to pounce all my troubles to Doctor Dinna… and finally on one summer eve, I had my chance.
"Doctor Dinna, can i borrow you for a moment?", I quickly called out to Dinna when i saw she was less busy with the attendants.
"Yes,love. You have anything for me? Hope you two are alright", Dinna asked with a happy tone in her tone. I smiled, increasing the level of happy momentum in the conversation: "Yes, we are. Just that.... I have a question. Can you kindly sit with me for a minute?", I pleaded.
"Oh yes. Why not?. So what's the fuzz about, dear?" Dinna sits on a chair next to the window facing me.
"You know I have been here for a very, very long time. I'm well and hearty now. I can now carry my feet. I can walk and dance under the early morning sun. I feel very much alive, thanks to you but with all this blizzard treatment in here, I feel like this is less just a sanctuary for me", I replied to the young Specialist, pouring out my whole heart to her.
For a few minutes, she didn't say a word. All she only did was to raise a glass of water, fold her arms and then soon, she spoke up: "Hmm... I don't really fathom what you are trying to imply here, love. What is your point?".
"Doctor Dinna. Let's be honest here. I am curious and I need to know why am i here. What is the reason that I am in chains for? Did I kill anyone or did I have steal anybody's stuff? Why do I deserve this treatment?" I asked feeling the sanctity of agony and pain in me. Dinna rushes to me,, placing alger hands on my back while she calmed me down: "No, dear. You did absolutely nothing".
"So why the heck am I in this shithole? I have fully recovered and back to my feet so why are you all giving me shit?", I responded angrily.
"Don't be dramatic. We are doing our very best we can. This is just work ethics. Just business, dear". Dinna replied to my comment thinking she was going to buy her way out of the conversation but unluckily, I was quite prepared for that.
"Fuck that bullshit, Dinna!".
"Pardon?", Dinna stared right into my eyes in disbelief. She wasn't sure whom she was now talking to, a peaceful Natalia or a ranging bull.
"You have been mentioning work ethics to me for the past four months. I could even swear that word have been uttered a hundred times by you. Is my legs in chains part of your so called work ethics? Please, I'm done here. Let me out of this hell hole. I need to be with my family", I shouted out angrily with a frown on my face. Dinna looks into my eyes once again. She shook her head and stands up: "I'm afraid that wouldn't be possible".
"What do you mean?", shocked at her words, I replied.
"I'm sorry but there is no other way", she said with a weird foggy appearance. Dinna places her right hand on her hair.
"Dinna, you are acting weird right now. What's going on?", I lamented still as I couldn't decipher what was about to happen. I only watched as the young lady searches her what she had been looking for. I soon realised that what she was in search for was more than just a soothing answer. I screamed at the top of my voice for help as Specialist Dinna draws closer to me: " WHAT'S GOING ON?! HELP! HELP!! PLEASE SOMEBODY HELP ME!".
I shouted at the top of my voice to the window. From out of the dark, I was automatically overpowered by Dinna whom she eventually pierces my skin with a needle. She slowly feel my breath plundering away.
My strength left my body as I slowly fell to the ground...
Dusk of the day..
It was a pleasant night. The sun had gone and the moon shone brightly down to the land of the humans. As usual, it was time for all whom seemed rest to be on their bed but technically, not for the the two unknown men secretly meeting the dubious woman in white at the deep end of Sandroville.
"There is no time to check time. There is no time at all. We need to act now", said the first Male figure of the dark. Dinna slowly speaks as she drops her bucket to the ground: "She is unto us. In time, she will realise. She is noticing. You need to act now".
"She is in denial, not noticing. She wouldn't realise anything", said the second male.
"So, what would you have me do?", Dinna breathed heavily.
"We have only one plan. We need to act now before the calamity starts", responded the First Male. He takes out his pipe and smoked in the night breeze. Corresponding to what his partner had implied, the second unknown man wipes his cloak as he disagrees: "You are just scared. This is the plan. Let her deliver her baby then after that, we will strike".
"We need to kill her with her baby. She is cursed", said the other man.
"She is cursed and not the child. The sins of the father and the mother are not the sins of the child. Always remember that. Doctor, when will she deliver?", asked the Second Male.
"Very soon, my Lords", replied Dinna in a quick response.
"Then, let's watch as the melody and drumbeat merge together", said the first Male as they concluded their secret conversation. Soon, they dispersed into ther night in different directions but what was sure was certain…
Something dark was about to happen.