Sofia POV
"Run! Run!"
A woman kept yelling at a small child. The woman was limping and her entire body was covered in blood but she still managed to shield the child from an incoming arrow. I looked around around the unfamiliar area and I became still with fear. The ground was covered in blood from all the bodies scattered everywhere. Every house was on fire and i could hear a few howling nearby.
I started to walk towards the woman and her child, only to find myself sandwiched between them and a wolf.
I started to yell at the woman and her child to run but i couldn't hear my own voice.The wolf suddenly run through me and i then realised it is a dream. I just stood there, knowing there's nothing i can do, and watched as everything happened in front of me.
The wolf growled at the woman and her child before completely changing into a human male in front of them.
I had no time to be shocked because the man suddenly started laughing as he stared down at the woman and her child.
"Thought you could run away from me, huh?" His voice sent shivers down my spine. I watched as the woman tried to free herself from the hands of her
captor.
The woman suddenly pushed the man away and he went through a tree, breaking it in half. She turned to the child behind her and tears started to flow down her eyes.
"I want you to run. Don't stop for anything or anyone, even if you grow tired, or your feet are sore, i want you to never stop running. Promise me." The woman whispered to the child, her voice cracking from the crying.
"Mama, I can't leave you." The girl held her mother's hand tightly as she began crying too.
"I will be right behind you..."She plastered a fake smile on her face, "...as soon as i deal with him. Now, go. And remember, I love you and I will always be with you."
The little girl gave her mother one last hug before she disappeared into the woods. My eyes turned to a sick laugh that was coming from the man.
"You think you can protect her! You fucking can't!" The man scratched the woman's face with his hand and she let out a painful cry.
"I'm gonna find her, and when I do, I will do to her worse than what I'm doing now." He delivers another blow to her stomach.
"You fool!" The woman spat back at him as she coughed out black blood.
"You don't get it, do you? It's already written and there's nothing you can do about it. And if you want her, over my dead body."
"As you wish, Your Highness."
I watched in horror as the man changed into that wolf again and it began charging towards the woman. She swiftly dodged his attack and landed a few feet away. She whispered some words I couldn't hear and the man was hit by a tree.
They continued to exchange a few blows until the man was overpowered and he shifted back to a human. He was covered in blood and was missing a leg and both hands. For a man on verge of death, he sure looked cocky.
"Listen to me, Amara, I will find her and I will end her. Mark my words." He managed to say in a weak voice. The woman Amara, just looked at him expressionlessly.
"I know you will."
She began to chant some weird words and the man began to burn. I gasped as I watched him laughing maniacally as the flames enveloped him.
Amara suddenly fell to her knees as the flames died down. She began to cry her heart out and I felt for her. I hadn't realised I had been crying too until she turned to my direction. I looked back to see what she was staring at but there was noone. I looked back at her and realised she was staring at me.
Could she see me?
My heart started beating very fast and I was starting to freak out. I took two steps back, still hawk eyeing her and she just smiled.She stood up and also took some steps towards me and stopped just a few feet away.
She raised her bloody hand to my face and touched my cheek. I froze.
"Look at you, all grown up." She gave the sweetest smile I have never seen in my life. "I'm proud of you."
"Do you know me?" Iasked, still not sure if she could hear me.
"Yes." I stared blankly at her. I had so many questions but before I could ask her, she spoke.
"We don't have much time. They are getting stronger,. You need to find him. He is your one."
"What? What does that even mean? Who's they? Who's him?" I asked her all at once, totally confused by what she had said. "Who are you?"
"We are out of time. Go now. When we meet again, I will answer everything."
She began to say those weird words again. "I love you."
I woke up with a start, not sure if it was because of the weird dream or just a bucket of water that had been emptied on my face. I coughed up a little as I came eye to eye with the woman who has been a pain in my ass for the last twenty-one years of my life.
Ladies and gentlemen, meet my foster mother, Rachel.
'I feed you, I clothe you, I shelter you and this is how you repay me?' Rachel began to throw different insults at me.
I was used to it by now so I just stared at her, waiting for her to finish whatever she wanted to say. There was something wrong with the way she was staring at me, probably because I hadn't heard a word she said.
'Are you listening to me?'
Ah, shit.
A hot slap landed on my cheek and that did the trick. 'You have exactly fifteen minutes before everyone wakes up. Make sure everything is done by then. If not...' She threw her long red hair over her shoulders, before looking at me like I'm some kind of a disease.
'Well, you know what happens.' She left the door of my not so much of a room open.
I sigh as i lazily dragged my feet off the bed.I looked myself from a piece of mirror that I had. I couldn't help but admire what I was saw..
My hair was more black than the usual black, just reaching below my waist. I always had it in a bun because I was afraid Rachel might cut it if she knew it was this long. My eyes were blue in colour like the sky when there's no cloud. I twirled around and a smile broke on my face. For a soon to be twenty-two year old, I was happy with my figure, slim waist, round peaches and slightly wide hips and a curvy ass. Many girls would die for this body. Since I spend all day wearing the rags Rachel provide me with, nobody really knows what I look like.
I began to dress up and my mind went to that dream earlier. I have always had it but today was different. I was completely confused by what it meant but now was not the time to think about it. Work awaits.
Plus, if I really wanted to find "they" and "him", I had to get out of this miserable place, right? And I can't do that if I piss off these people so for now, I will have to endure it.