"Let me out!" Her scream echoed around the walls, mocking her.
"Please! I've done nothing wrong! I only wanted to find my brother!” Her plea was softer this time and again, only her echo answered. She collapsed to her knees, shaking with a mixture of fear and cold, ebony bangs falling into her hazel green eyes. She closed them as if to block the panic that was starting to overwhelm her and her mind wound back to how she'd gotten here...
"Kiya, your mind must be elsewhere! That bucket is full!"
"Huh?" Kiya looked down and hastily drew her bucket from the river, sending an apologetic glance to Mira.
"Sorry I was just worried about--"
"About Darm, I know." Mira straitened, amusement dancing in her eyes, "He'll be home soon enough, but for now, you’d best get on with your chores."
A loud sound caused Kiya to open her eyes with a snap, trying to see in the darkness that shrouded the rocky walls of this dungeon. "Kiya?" a weak voice called out
"Darm!" Kiya scrambled to her feet and groped her way over to where her brother lay on the cold stone floor. She held him close until he gasped, "Kiya, you're strangling me!"
"Darm? Why are you down here, and why the hell am I down here?"
"Let's just say, they weren't happy when they discovered a peasant had gotten so close to being a full knight." Darm said coughing slightly.
Both Mira and Kiya had looked up at the sound of hoof beats on the road. A party of men charged towards the village bearing the local lord's colors. Hoping Darm was among them, Kiya picked up her skirts and ran, trying to minimize the amount of water spilled while wanting to go as fast as possible. The riders beat her to the village and by the time she dropped the bucket off at Mira's hut, a crowd had gathered around the riders and their horses. "Kiya! You need to hide!" an urgent voice whispered,
"Huh?"
Irmel's dark eyes met hers intently, "They learned about Darm's heritage and I fear they may be looking for--"
"There she is!" a deep voice said from behind them and Irmel gave her a helpless glance before melting into the crowd of peasants. "You're Darm's younger sister aren't you?"
"Yes." Kiya said nervously, tucking a strand of hair that had escaped from her braid behind her ear.
"You're coming with us."
"So they showed their displeasure by beating you?" Kiya asked. Darm's silence confirmed her statement, "But that is stupid, I've heard some amazing things about your talents and--"
"Kiya, it doesn't matter how good or bad you are, what matters is your social rank, you have to stay put. A peasant will never become a knight and a merchant won't become king." Darm's voice was soft but weather it was because it hurt to talk or because it was bitterness that softened it, Kiya didn't know.
Kiya had never ridden on a horse before and the experience was both terrifying and wonderful. She got to the castle and was lead by a handful of the riders down a flight of stairs. "In here love." one of them said, opening the door for her. She went in and saw a big room made of stone, with other passages leading away from it and had a little bit of straw littered on the floor before the door slammed shut behind her, and darkness overcame her.
"So what are we going to do?"
"Do?" Darm coughed, "Stay alive, that's what we're going to do. As far as I know, they've left us to rot down here. It's my fault for being stupid enough to have even attempted to become a knight and you're sharing the blame on that one it seems. We'll get out of here Kiya, I swear we will."
Those were the last words Darm ever spoke. At first, Kiya thought he'd fallen asleep but she no longer heard him breathing and the horrible truth sank in, they had beaten him to death for following a dream and daring to challenge the social order...
M'kay, this was a short story I wrote... in about April '07 or something like that. I still kinda like it so here it is.
Yes its done and I (still) don't know if I'm going to write another one that ties in with it... I hope its not too confusing, if you have issues reading it, try to tell me where you get lost so I can revise it and make it better? Its better than a "you suck at writing, go die in a hole somewhere" if you know what I mean. (Of course, if you back up your reasons well enough for that statement... XD lol)
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