-Break-The next dayLocation: Far east of the River Lúide, inside a nearby forestΦ Holding me by the shoulders, Dónal says, "Charles has been what!?""You heard me, Charles has been taken. The girl has stolen him from us."Φ With my knees feeling weak, I fall to the ground whilst slamming my hands against the floor and scream, "NOOOOOOOO!"Looking up at Nero, I say, "What happened!""He just started talking to her yesterday, and since then she won't let him leave her side. Even now as we are in the forest, he is with her helping build the castle.""Why didn't you stop him!""What was I supposed to do; tie him up and keep him still!?"This is bad, really bad, I had planned for this waste of space to be the one to court the human woman, but now that she is beside Charles she is bound to fall for his adorableness. I need to fix this now, and this waste of mass humans is my only help.Standing up, I put my hands on the boy's shoulder, and say, "Do you remember what I told you the first
-Break-Unable to sleep in the hut, I open my eyes, and say, "It not going to happen tonight." Looking over at Charles and the girl sleeping together, I feel anger well up inside me.So I throw a fit in the quiet; look how they get to sleep so soundly while I have to be up here frustrated by the words that were said to me, I swear I wish I could take back all the things I did for them.Suddenly images of Charles flash through my mind, causing me to calm down. Then I say, "Well at least not for Charles."But that girl was being a bitch, not in the Lillian sense, but in the actual sense of the word. I hate her, I hate her so much. In that moment an idea flashes through my mind."If she is mean when awake, then I will just mess with her in her sleep."Getting up, I walk outside slightly where it is still raining, and take some mud from out and put it on my finger. Walking over to the girl, I mumble, "Time for some revenge."Getting ready to smear the mud on her face, I take a good look a
-Break-The next dayI haven't had a single day of true rest since the day my country was burned to the ground. Everything, everywhere around me has been terrifying, it was all so scary that I felt like I was going to die by simply being here.So to survive I had to become something even more terrifying, I didn't want to be hurt so I decided to be the one who hurt, the one who created fear, because if I did I would be able to be peaceful.But it still didn't come, the terror never subsided so my sleep never truly came back. But today I have learned at least one thing, that maybe I at the very least don't have to be scared of the two in the room beside me.Getting up, I look at the boy beside me and the second one over in his section of the room, and say, "This nap was quite nice today."Suddenly Nero jumps up with a look of terror, then starts to vomit over to his left.When I see this I shriek and say, "What's going?"Charles getting up beside me, says, "Sometimes when Nero wakes up
-Break-A few days laterHearing a noise, I open my eyes and turn my head to the right where I see Mariana throwing up, and I say, "Oh so do it as well. Are you ok?"Mariana finishing her release, looks at me and gives me a thumbs-up with a sickly expression.So I respond with another thumbs up back towards her.Seeing the sun shining outside the room, I say, "It's late, why didn't they start ringing the bell to get us up."Then moments later memories of last year start flashing throughout my brain, and I say, "Bricriu is coming."-Break-Location: On a path towards the centre plainMariana beside us says, "So that's how I found how I got this scar on the back of my knee.""Urgh.""Hey, what with that urgh?""I was worried about you this morning but it seems you're doing just fine, you haven't been able to stop talking since we started walking.""Well, what else are we supposed to do!? Everyone is being forced to walk to who knows where, so how else I am supposed to keep you entertain
-Break-The next dayLocation: CampsiteΦ Opening my eyes, I get up and look around the room, where I see that Nero has completely moved his body to the corner of the room.Getting up I walk over to him, and ask, "Are you ok Nero?""Forget.""Forget what?""FORGET WHAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT!""The crying or the panicking?""ALL OF IT."With a smile, I say, "I didn't know you could make such expressions.""Erased them from your mind!""Sorry, but I have engrained them within me from now until the day I die.""I hate you.""Good for you then."Gritting his teeth out of anger in front of me, Nero lets out a sigh turns around and says, "Still thank you."Looking at his back, I smile and say, "Accepted.""Hey Mariana, there is something both me and Charles have been keeping from you, but it might be a bit hard to believe.""Well, I have seen a clown with giant white wings before so not many things can faze me."-Break-Location: Far east of the River Lúide, inside a nearby forestΦ With swea
Looking at me Mariana, says, "If we use the owl's memories as a guidepost, we might be able to learn their language. Now to mention all the other information about the beastkin we can get from this.""If we are able to speak and understand their language, not to mention how they work as a group, lots of the different issues we face in escaping would vanish or become significantly easier."With eyes of hope, Mariana says, "This means we really could break out one day."A moment of silence occurs as the idea of freedom rushes into our minds. Suddenly I remember the images of my father's face, causing me to calm down and say, "Wait, don't you think you're getting too hasty? There are a few things we need to work out with this owl.""Like what?""Like why did it specifically show us memories we would want to see? It is like it knew showing us those memories would decrease our chances of killing it."As me and Mariana stare at the wonderbeast, it starts to sweat and turn its head away. The
Three months later-Break-Φ In the entirety of my life, I had never felt warmth, love, kindness only hardship.I was born a rat beastkin. I had inherited the powers of a weak and feeble animal, and because of that the first look I ever received as a baby was one of disappointment.From the age of three, I was expected to be able to say full sentences by myself. Yet I always slurred my speech which was unacceptable for someone of my status.At age five they trained me to be a warrior, but yet when I tried to use my sword on a practise dummy, I would always miss my target and fall, then like clockwork, I would hear, "You incompetent fool!" From my teacher.As I bent my head in disappointment, I would say, "Sorry."Yet it didn't matter, since my progress reflected back on my teacher, so he would strike me right across the face when I apologized."Do you think I need apologies boy? I need results, so do it right. Now again."I tried but then fell again, so I was struck. "NOW AGAIN."The
-Break-Location: Beastkin dormsWalking through the dorms towards the exit, I am suddenly grabbed and put in a headlock by Ryan, who says, "Breast milk I was looking for you."Standing still out of fright I say, "What do you need Ryan?""You see I have been working really hard, and it has been causing me to get blisters all over my feet, so I was just wondering if I could get paid leave."With a shaky voice I say, "But if you go as well the amount of workers will be too little to help us handle the amount of slaves.""Stop being just a fucker, we already have a whole bunch of Merarks, so just ask them to keep watch.""What if they start rampaging and killing the slaves? I won't be able to deal with them.""You're the boss it is your job to deal with them, and I will only be going back home for Samhain. When the celebration at home are over I will come back to relax here at work because if I stayed home father would force me to help around."With a shy head tilt, I say, "I am the boss