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/> âMother?â I give her a hug and she hugs me back grinning.
âYour back!â She exclaimed. âOh Yeira! I was soâ,â
âMother.â I cut in laughing. âSome of the townsfolk came with meâI couldnât leave them there.â
She glanced behind me. âGood. I brought Haran, Kefir and Garran here too. The poor boys couldnât tell left from right!â Mothers can be so clueless sometimes. âNow Yeira, we donât have many roomsâbut I think we have enough so each family has oneâprovided you children sleep out hereâŠoh and then thereâs food to make! Hold on.â She walked past me to greet in our new guest. Nothing all that cheery considering their homes were most probably burning up right now.
âYeira will show you your rooms.â She told them. âIâll make dinner and we can all get some sleep.â
âIâll help you Ashanti.â My aunt, one of the families, got up and headed to the kitchen with my motherâleaving the rest of the guest staring at me.
âCome with me.â I say walking down the corridor and gesturing at all the rooms they could take. Soon everyone was settled, but Garran and his friends, my brother and I. I led us back into the living room and gestured to the sofas and the divan.
âYou guys can sleep anywhere here.â I say.
âCare to join me?â Garran asked lounging on the couch.
Clenching my jaw I turned to Osaka, who obviously didnât catch the hintâthank goodness. âOsaka, go find mother and check where sheâll be staying, you can stay with her.
âYeah, kid, we need our privacy.â Garran leered. The boys laughed.
âOh, just shut up.â I tell him. At that moment, thunder erupted as the rain started battering down and the room flashed as lightning flickered across the sky outside the window.
âTemper.â
âGarran; shut your trap before you get kicked out of this house. My mother wouldnât do that, but you should well know, I will.â
âReally?â He mocked. âI dare you.â
âOsaka, go.â I say. He ran off as I death glared Garran. This was going to be a long nightâŠ
*****
I woke up in the morning feeling a bit cranky. No one else was awake, so I got up quickly and got dressed in the bathroom and came out refreshed. Water ran out thoughâweâd need extra water today, with all the guests. With a sigh, I picked up two buckets and headed outside.
âWhereâre you going?â Haranâs voice.
I turn around to face him defiantly. âNone of your business.â
âYour mother wonât be so happy to know you walked off.â
âYou want to starve to death? We need water for cooking. And cleaning, but when was the last month you lot showered anyway?â I mock. âIâm going to get water; care to try and stop me?â âYeira; about what Garran says, look, we âweâre not all like that.â
âReally?â I mock.
âReally.â He spoke earnestly. âWe laugh along to it; but believe me, I feel terrible afterwards. I felt really guilty even yesterday. Iâm sorry.â
I give him a look. âHow do you expect to grow up and be a man, a warrior for the tribe, if you canât even stand up for the women that jerk taunts? Worse still you support him! I donât and wonât forgive you, not until you become a man. Not until you grow a back bone.â Seeing no reply I walked off on the jerk.
I got to the river and filled up the bucketsâthere was no smoke coming from town. HmmâŠI know I shouldnât, but a quick check wonât hurt. Leaving the buckets by a tree, I made my way towards the town. On reaching it, I came to an abrupt stopâthe side closest to the river, was in ruins. Bits and pieces of houses and stores were now rubble on the ground with black mud. The rest of the town looked untouched. I look up towards the riverâthe ship was gone. The bandits had left! I turn my gaze to one of the housesâŠit was half burnt and half standing. There was a sobbing sound. Was someone there? I cautiously moved towards itâand yes; I know this is dangerous. I quietly opened the door and slipped inside the semi enclosed room. The sobbing was more evident. I turned in its direction and just down the room, in the midst of rubble was a childâa small girl. I quickly rushed to her side.
âShhhâŠitâs okay. Whatâs wrong? Are you hurt?â I ask kneeling down, carefully moving aside the rubble. She started crying louder.
âHelp. Please, help!â She sobbed.
âJust hold on.â I say softly, luckily she was hiding under a table or somethingâand she was just trappedâI hope. I finished moving the rubble aside enough to create a large hole. She didnât need any instruction and she started moving through the hole.
âSlowlyâŠâ I urge, helping her out carefully.
On getting out she practically flung herself onto me.
âWhoa, hey, come on. Youâre ok.â I laugh.
She started sobbing again. âI lost mama! IâI was so scaredâŠt-the fire a-and lightningâŠI was going t-to die!â
âShhhâŠâ I comfortâwhat was I supposed to say? Donât worry kid, a couple of flames never hurt anyone. AhâŠno.
There was a slow clapping sound from behind me. Releasing the girl I got up and whirled around to find a two men smirking back at us. I recognised one as the jerk that singled me out yesterdayâthe other was also one of the men. Stepping clearly in front of the girl, I glared back boldly at the men, my heart thudding loudlyâI had no weapon.
âYeira, wasnât it?â The jerk from yesterday asked smiling. âAnd you seemed to have rescued a little friend.â
âLeave this village alone.â I glare, shoving past the fear. âYouâve done enough damage, and youâre not welcome here.â
The other man stepped up to stand beside me as if waiting for something, and I looked back at him as if to say âwhat-doâyou-plan-to-do-mate?â
âAnd here I was thinking we were wanted here.â
âIâd tell you what I think of you, but this little girlâs been through enough.â I scorn.
The man standing beside us took my arm harshly and I yelped as he pushed me into the wall.
âWhereâre the villagers hiding?â The man asked.
âWhat?â I squeal as he squeezed my arms harder into the wall. âGet a life you bastards.â I pant when he eased his grip.
âYou talk to your masters like that?â He growled raising his hand. Tightening my face I prepared for impact.
âTAO!â I looked up to see the jerk from yesterday had stopped this man, Tao. He had taken hold of the hand only inches from my face.
âRelease her.â He ordered. Tao release my arms and I held onto a sigh of relief. âIâll deal with her; you go help with the scout.â With a nod, Tao left.
There was a pause as the girl inched closer to me.
âSister?â She asked all so innocently. I give her a comforting gaze before turning a deadly one toward the jerk.
âWhat? And no thank you?â He asked nonchalantly
âNo.â I say simply. âPack your bags and leave.â
âLook, donât think I wonât do 10 times worse that what he did, maybe traumatize that little girl by doing soâbut donât think youâll get away with saying just about anything.â He says. I scoffed, but he ignored it and continued. âJust make it easy on yourself and your village and tell me where they are.â
âNo.â I say simply. He took my arm.
âWhere are they, Yeira?â
I glare back. âGo jump in the river.â
He gave an irritated sigh. âYou know why I stopped Tao?â He asked. I shrug. â Itâs because yesterday, when I claimed you, you became my servant.â
âExcuse me? Serve you??â I mock. âNot bloody likely.â
He pulled me closer and I stumbled onto his hard bodyâsoon dead body. âYes bloody likely.â He countered. âAs for the rest of your village, same goes for them.â
âNo.â I say. âThe men will be back soon, and cowards like you wonât stand a chance.â
He took hold of my waist. âCowards??â He asked harshly.
I pulled at his grip. âJust let me go!"
âMaybe itâs time we discipline you.â
I stopped struggling and turned to him rebelliously. âDo your worst, it wonât make a difference.â
He leaned forward onto my face, but I resumed my struggling. âLet me go!! You tyrant!â
âStruggling never helps.â He whispered against my lips.
âYou let go of me right now, before IâŠâ
âBefore you what?â He asked rising and eyebrow. He brushed his lips against mine, despite my struggles and softly enclosed them. A few heartbeats later he stepped back with a wail. The little girl had hit him in the leg with some broken metal piece.
âYou brat!â He scowled reaching out for her collar. Pulling his hand away, I gestured at the door.
âRun!â I say.
She looked to be on the verge of tears, but she turned and ran. But two steps and he took her arm. I bit his shoulder and he cried out; letting go of the girl who ran out the door and out of sight.
âBitch!â He glowered, pushing me into the wall. âWhatâd you think that would do??â
âGet her out.â I rebuke.
âAnd how about you? No one to save you now.â
âIâve never asked for one.â
âYou know I could just take you. Right here, right now.â
âYeah, I know.â I glare back. âAnd I donât care.â
âYou should. Unless youâreâŠinterested.â
I scoff. âNot even close.â
Tao walked in the door grinning.
âXavier, it seems that ladies are living here somewhere close. I saw a woman by the river, itâs her mumâweâve got her.â Tao smirked.
So his name was Xavier? Xavier turned to me. âWhere are they?â
âSorry Xave, you ainât getting anything here.â
He looked back at me. âNot even for the lady?â
I clenched my jaw, but I didnât reply.
âYo Tao, take out your knife, will ya?â He says
âNo!â I say abruptly. âYouâve burnt our village, destroyed so many homesâŠthree of the fields have also burnt down and you destroyed our festival. Is that not enough?? Why canât you just leave us be?â
âI knowâŠâ Xave smiled. âYou see, thatâs our job.â
âTo destroy lives??â I ask shocked. âGet off our soil and into your ships, right now.â
Xavier twisted my arms a little moreâenough to get me to yelp.
âYou donât order us. Okay?â He spoke sternly. âYou do as we say.â
âNo.â I say. âYou will leave now.â Thunder erupted in the sky as clouds once again began to gather.
âOr youâll what?â Xave asked leaning forward.
I smile. âYou really want to know? Well, Iâll do this.â
The house began to shake vigorously as the walls collapsed around usâthe wind beating into them. Tao jumped aside, narrowly missing a piece the falling roof. The wall I was pinned to also begin to crumble as the roof did. Xave wrapped me in his arms, as I gasped in surprise, and leaped out of the house. We came rolling to a stop and we both looked up to see the house collapse. Tao stood on the other side panting. Xave turned back to look at me and I glared back.
âGet off.â I say flatly.
âI just saved your life.â He says, not moving an inch.
âGet off.â I repeat. âIf you think Iâm gonna say âthank you, I am now in your eternal debtâ forget it.â
He laughed. âThere goes that idea.â
I repressed a smile and looked away with a sigh. âCould you get off?â
âIâm quite comfortable actually. But maybe if youâŠâ He trailed off.
âPlease?!â I say frustrated
He got off laughing and offered his hand. Ignoring it, I got up and took a few steps backâsecurity reasons, and dusted
âYour back!â She exclaimed. âOh Yeira! I was soâ,â
âMother.â I cut in laughing. âSome of the townsfolk came with meâI couldnât leave them there.â
She glanced behind me. âGood. I brought Haran, Kefir and Garran here too. The poor boys couldnât tell left from right!â Mothers can be so clueless sometimes. âNow Yeira, we donât have many roomsâbut I think we have enough so each family has oneâprovided you children sleep out hereâŠoh and then thereâs food to make! Hold on.â She walked past me to greet in our new guest. Nothing all that cheery considering their homes were most probably burning up right now.
âYeira will show you your rooms.â She told them. âIâll make dinner and we can all get some sleep.â
âIâll help you Ashanti.â My aunt, one of the families, got up and headed to the kitchen with my motherâleaving the rest of the guest staring at me.
âCome with me.â I say walking down the corridor and gesturing at all the rooms they could take. Soon everyone was settled, but Garran and his friends, my brother and I. I led us back into the living room and gestured to the sofas and the divan.
âYou guys can sleep anywhere here.â I say.
âCare to join me?â Garran asked lounging on the couch.
Clenching my jaw I turned to Osaka, who obviously didnât catch the hintâthank goodness. âOsaka, go find mother and check where sheâll be staying, you can stay with her.
âYeah, kid, we need our privacy.â Garran leered. The boys laughed.
âOh, just shut up.â I tell him. At that moment, thunder erupted as the rain started battering down and the room flashed as lightning flickered across the sky outside the window.
âTemper.â
âGarran; shut your trap before you get kicked out of this house. My mother wouldnât do that, but you should well know, I will.â
âReally?â He mocked. âI dare you.â
âOsaka, go.â I say. He ran off as I death glared Garran. This was going to be a long nightâŠ
*****
I woke up in the morning feeling a bit cranky. No one else was awake, so I got up quickly and got dressed in the bathroom and came out refreshed. Water ran out thoughâweâd need extra water today, with all the guests. With a sigh, I picked up two buckets and headed outside.
âWhereâre you going?â Haranâs voice.
I turn around to face him defiantly. âNone of your business.â
âYour mother wonât be so happy to know you walked off.â
âYou want to starve to death? We need water for cooking. And cleaning, but when was the last month you lot showered anyway?â I mock. âIâm going to get water; care to try and stop me?â âYeira; about what Garran says, look, we âweâre not all like that.â
âReally?â I mock.
âReally.â He spoke earnestly. âWe laugh along to it; but believe me, I feel terrible afterwards. I felt really guilty even yesterday. Iâm sorry.â
I give him a look. âHow do you expect to grow up and be a man, a warrior for the tribe, if you canât even stand up for the women that jerk taunts? Worse still you support him! I donât and wonât forgive you, not until you become a man. Not until you grow a back bone.â Seeing no reply I walked off on the jerk.
I got to the river and filled up the bucketsâthere was no smoke coming from town. HmmâŠI know I shouldnât, but a quick check wonât hurt. Leaving the buckets by a tree, I made my way towards the town. On reaching it, I came to an abrupt stopâthe side closest to the river, was in ruins. Bits and pieces of houses and stores were now rubble on the ground with black mud. The rest of the town looked untouched. I look up towards the riverâthe ship was gone. The bandits had left! I turn my gaze to one of the housesâŠit was half burnt and half standing. There was a sobbing sound. Was someone there? I cautiously moved towards itâand yes; I know this is dangerous. I quietly opened the door and slipped inside the semi enclosed room. The sobbing was more evident. I turned in its direction and just down the room, in the midst of rubble was a childâa small girl. I quickly rushed to her side.
âShhhâŠitâs okay. Whatâs wrong? Are you hurt?â I ask kneeling down, carefully moving aside the rubble. She started crying louder.
âHelp. Please, help!â She sobbed.
âJust hold on.â I say softly, luckily she was hiding under a table or somethingâand she was just trappedâI hope. I finished moving the rubble aside enough to create a large hole. She didnât need any instruction and she started moving through the hole.
âSlowlyâŠâ I urge, helping her out carefully.
On getting out she practically flung herself onto me.
âWhoa, hey, come on. Youâre ok.â I laugh.
She started sobbing again. âI lost mama! IâI was so scaredâŠt-the fire a-and lightningâŠI was going t-to die!â
âShhhâŠâ I comfortâwhat was I supposed to say? Donât worry kid, a couple of flames never hurt anyone. AhâŠno.
There was a slow clapping sound from behind me. Releasing the girl I got up and whirled around to find a two men smirking back at us. I recognised one as the jerk that singled me out yesterdayâthe other was also one of the men. Stepping clearly in front of the girl, I glared back boldly at the men, my heart thudding loudlyâI had no weapon.
âYeira, wasnât it?â The jerk from yesterday asked smiling. âAnd you seemed to have rescued a little friend.â
âLeave this village alone.â I glare, shoving past the fear. âYouâve done enough damage, and youâre not welcome here.â
The other man stepped up to stand beside me as if waiting for something, and I looked back at him as if to say âwhat-doâyou-plan-to-do-mate?â
âAnd here I was thinking we were wanted here.â
âIâd tell you what I think of you, but this little girlâs been through enough.â I scorn.
The man standing beside us took my arm harshly and I yelped as he pushed me into the wall.
âWhereâre the villagers hiding?â The man asked.
âWhat?â I squeal as he squeezed my arms harder into the wall. âGet a life you bastards.â I pant when he eased his grip.
âYou talk to your masters like that?â He growled raising his hand. Tightening my face I prepared for impact.
âTAO!â I looked up to see the jerk from yesterday had stopped this man, Tao. He had taken hold of the hand only inches from my face.
âRelease her.â He ordered. Tao release my arms and I held onto a sigh of relief. âIâll deal with her; you go help with the scout.â With a nod, Tao left.
There was a pause as the girl inched closer to me.
âSister?â She asked all so innocently. I give her a comforting gaze before turning a deadly one toward the jerk.
âWhat? And no thank you?â He asked nonchalantly
âNo.â I say simply. âPack your bags and leave.â
âLook, donât think I wonât do 10 times worse that what he did, maybe traumatize that little girl by doing soâbut donât think youâll get away with saying just about anything.â He says. I scoffed, but he ignored it and continued. âJust make it easy on yourself and your village and tell me where they are.â
âNo.â I say simply. He took my arm.
âWhere are they, Yeira?â
I glare back. âGo jump in the river.â
He gave an irritated sigh. âYou know why I stopped Tao?â He asked. I shrug. â Itâs because yesterday, when I claimed you, you became my servant.â
âExcuse me? Serve you??â I mock. âNot bloody likely.â
He pulled me closer and I stumbled onto his hard bodyâsoon dead body. âYes bloody likely.â He countered. âAs for the rest of your village, same goes for them.â
âNo.â I say. âThe men will be back soon, and cowards like you wonât stand a chance.â
He took hold of my waist. âCowards??â He asked harshly.
I pulled at his grip. âJust let me go!"
âMaybe itâs time we discipline you.â
I stopped struggling and turned to him rebelliously. âDo your worst, it wonât make a difference.â
He leaned forward onto my face, but I resumed my struggling. âLet me go!! You tyrant!â
âStruggling never helps.â He whispered against my lips.
âYou let go of me right now, before IâŠâ
âBefore you what?â He asked rising and eyebrow. He brushed his lips against mine, despite my struggles and softly enclosed them. A few heartbeats later he stepped back with a wail. The little girl had hit him in the leg with some broken metal piece.
âYou brat!â He scowled reaching out for her collar. Pulling his hand away, I gestured at the door.
âRun!â I say.
She looked to be on the verge of tears, but she turned and ran. But two steps and he took her arm. I bit his shoulder and he cried out; letting go of the girl who ran out the door and out of sight.
âBitch!â He glowered, pushing me into the wall. âWhatâd you think that would do??â
âGet her out.â I rebuke.
âAnd how about you? No one to save you now.â
âIâve never asked for one.â
âYou know I could just take you. Right here, right now.â
âYeah, I know.â I glare back. âAnd I donât care.â
âYou should. Unless youâreâŠinterested.â
I scoff. âNot even close.â
Tao walked in the door grinning.
âXavier, it seems that ladies are living here somewhere close. I saw a woman by the river, itâs her mumâweâve got her.â Tao smirked.
So his name was Xavier? Xavier turned to me. âWhere are they?â
âSorry Xave, you ainât getting anything here.â
He looked back at me. âNot even for the lady?â
I clenched my jaw, but I didnât reply.
âYo Tao, take out your knife, will ya?â He says
âNo!â I say abruptly. âYouâve burnt our village, destroyed so many homesâŠthree of the fields have also burnt down and you destroyed our festival. Is that not enough?? Why canât you just leave us be?â
âI knowâŠâ Xave smiled. âYou see, thatâs our job.â
âTo destroy lives??â I ask shocked. âGet off our soil and into your ships, right now.â
Xavier twisted my arms a little moreâenough to get me to yelp.
âYou donât order us. Okay?â He spoke sternly. âYou do as we say.â
âNo.â I say. âYou will leave now.â Thunder erupted in the sky as clouds once again began to gather.
âOr youâll what?â Xave asked leaning forward.
I smile. âYou really want to know? Well, Iâll do this.â
The house began to shake vigorously as the walls collapsed around usâthe wind beating into them. Tao jumped aside, narrowly missing a piece the falling roof. The wall I was pinned to also begin to crumble as the roof did. Xave wrapped me in his arms, as I gasped in surprise, and leaped out of the house. We came rolling to a stop and we both looked up to see the house collapse. Tao stood on the other side panting. Xave turned back to look at me and I glared back.
âGet off.â I say flatly.
âI just saved your life.â He says, not moving an inch.
âGet off.â I repeat. âIf you think Iâm gonna say âthank you, I am now in your eternal debtâ forget it.â
He laughed. âThere goes that idea.â
I repressed a smile and looked away with a sigh. âCould you get off?â
âIâm quite comfortable actually. But maybe if youâŠâ He trailed off.
âPlease?!â I say frustrated
He got off laughing and offered his hand. Ignoring it, I got up and took a few steps backâsecurity reasons, and dusted
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