When I woke up, I found myself sitting in a dark room, but I couldn't recognise where I had been taken. I tried to find something, like a window or door, so that I could use magic to send a message to the others, but I couldn't find one. I tried my best to move my arms, but the ropes binding them were too tight to break free from. I decided to use magic to break the ropes, but my captors came in as soon as I began casting the spell.
The woman smirked as she talked about selling me to Paul and getting the reward money that was on my head. The guy grabbed my face and studied it trying to figure out if I was really me or just a lookalike. They reasoned that even if I wasn't me, Paul would still take me and execute me publicly to declare war anyway. He threw my head back, so I spat on him and told him what he was. A sorry excuse of a man who has to drug a girl to abduct her.
He then grabbed me by my neck and began to strangle me, but the woman told him not to and grabbed his arm. He slapped her away and continued choking me, but she didn't give up. She told him how pissed Paul would be if he saw marks on me, and that made him stop immediately. Although, as he put me down, I managed to slide his dagger away without either of them noticing.
When they went out to "get air," I used that as an opportunity to cut myself free and run away. As I was cutting away, I kept looking at the door that they went outside from until I heard horses outside. For a moment, I thought that Elizabeth had somehow found me, but I was painfully mistaken. Instead of hearing my sister's voice, I heard the devil himself. Paul was there.
I started cutting as fast as I could as the steps above me grew louder and louder, until I heard them stop in front of the door. The door opened and I said one incantation which very well saved my life.