Hello my name is Liliana and am twenty years Old.

I live in a small village called Darktom

on the Western side of Dakhim kingdom.

so I was brought up by granny who died last year "May her soul rest in peace".... this was after my parents were taken by the Royal gards to go and work in the palace during then I was only five years old and since then I have never seen them reports came to us that they had been sentenced to death for trying to poison the king.

like really? I never believed a single thing that was told to us back then.

so through the years I've been living a life full of bitterness and all I could think of is getting my hands over the royals and killing them all with no remorse, maybe that would bring me to the peaks of peace.

But whom I'm I kidding? those are the royals what can uninsignificant being like me do to them?

further more I was told that our village only consisted of the kingdom slaves.

meaning we were not regarded in anyway for they had power and wealth they couldn't be bothered even if a whole bunch of us were to die in an instant it would make them loose nothing.

"He you stop day dreaming and come help"

ooh! that's my friend Viviana after the demise of my grandma her family took me in.

I can't be less greatful to them, they have helped me in many ways and can't even get a single complaint on them.

"Okay"

I said chuckling and heading where she was.

Viviana was older than me by a year, she was like a sister to me

she always made sure that I never felt lonely and always tried to cheer me up when I was gloomy.

.....I went to where she was and stared helping her in sorting out the herbal leaves we were asked to find by her mother and after that we parked them nicely in different fabrics and brought them with us back to the house.

....."mother we are back"

Viviana called when we entered the home compound .

we went directly inside the house and what we found shocked the hell out of us.

the Royal gurds ? why we're they here?

and why was Auntie's face so pale? many questions run through my mind until I was drown out of them by a voice.

"can you give me time to talk to them in private please?"

unties voice rang in my mind now making the hairs back on my neck to stand straight as a course of emotions started to stir inside me , for real I had a bad feeling about this.

"Okay but only for five minutes"

One of the gurds said as the left the house.

"you both sit, we don't have a lot of time"

unties voice resounded in the room and we hurriedly sat on the rags for there were no chairs nor coaches .

"what's wrong mum? please talk, why are they here?"

Viviana asked breaking the now suffocating silence inside the room.

"Th....the royals wants one of you to go work for them in the palace"

untie said though with a lot of difficulty, no wait, they now want one of us? are they mad are what's wrong with their brains? obviously the whole village had many girls of our age why did they choose this family to begin with?

ooh my I really hope it's not me.

"Liliana"

I was brought back to reality by my unties voice

"y...ye..s untie"

I replied now looking at her my hand were shaking but I tried my best to hide them .

" i have done all I can for you, now it's your turn to repay me the favor by going to the palace, I can't allow my girl to go to those monsters and get killed'

w...ai...t! what? was I hearing things? she wants me to go with them? I couldn't believe my ears , I couldn't believe she would give me out that easily I had stayed with them for a long time and thought that we had created an unbreakable bond with them, but now it has dawned on me.

"No I can't go with them"

I tried to retort but my unties shot daggers on me with her eyes they had turned alittle darker now, I think she was angry, but Angry with what exactly? wasn't I the one supposed to blow out in fumes of anger for what she had said?.

" we are not negotiating Liliana, you must go with them whether you like it or. not."

"..."

"gurds"

I was paralyzed by her sudden outburst , maybe it's true as they said animals will always be taken care off and later sacrificed to the gods.

"who is going with us?" one of the gurds asked and all eyes fell on me and without another word they took me out and directed me to the carriage and we took off.