by Arya22 » Sun Mar 19, 2017 3:44 am
The woman stumbled on, her arms curled protectively around her big belly. She flinched every time her right foot touched the ground, but she kept going. She had lost everything since she had learned she could make plants grow. First her house. She had had to flee after the Queens soldiers had learned about her. Then... They had been running for a week then, her husband and her. The soldiers had found them. "run! I'll hold them back!" he had called. She has known it wasn't true, and wanted to stay. "go! Go for the baby." he had added quietly. Then she knew she needed to go, for the baby. So she had turned away from her love, her husband. And she had ran. She had heard battle noises. A shout that she knew was his. Then nothing. But with tears on her eyes, she had kept running.
For the baby.
Days later, she had been attacked by a wolf. Just one, and a weak, old one at that. But she was pregnant, and tired and weak. It had bit her ankle, then her arm. She had finally used a vine to tie it to the ground, but not before it locked it's jaws on her side. She was now bleeding heavily from it.
This was several days after that. Her ankle was swollen and black, and her arm wouldn't stop bleeding, as well as her side, which was the worst. She knew she needed to find help soon. She felt increasingly weak and tired from the blood loss, but she didn't dare stop. She would never keep going after.
After an indefinable amount of time, she saw lights ahead. With a sob of relief, the woman hurried on until she was standing by huge wooden doors. She knocked, three times. As the door opened and an unknown woman ran to her, she collapsed.
When she woke, she was in a clean bed, in a small room filled with identical beds. She looked around, but her vision was darker and more blurry than usual. The woman also became aware of a pounding headache and pain on her arm and her side. A blurry shape moved into her field of vision, who when she came closer turned out to be a young woman. "my name is Lucibelle." she told her kindly. "I'm a healer." she explained. She had a slight frown on her face as she considered the woman. "you are very injured. Can you talk and tell me what happened?" she asked. It was obvious from her voice that she was worried. The woman moistened her mouth, then tried to speak. "I can try." she croaked. Her voice sounded terrifyingly weak. She hesitated before speaking. Did these people serve the queen? What about her power? But she reasoned that, whatever she said, she needed help. And it was better for them to know the truth. "I found out I have powers a few weeks ago. My husband and I ran, but the Queens soldiers found us and... They killed him." her voice was barely audible. Lucibelle widened her eyes when the woman talked about her power. She was one of them... But she didn't talk and waited for the woman to speak. "I ran then... A wolf attacked me and injured me. I tied him with my plants and kept running. It's been days." the woman stopped, exhausted. "I finally found someplace..." she closed her eyes and fell asleep. Lucibelle looked at her. With a lot of rest and healing, she might recover. But the woman looked as if she could give birth soon, and Lucibelle doubted she could survive that. Frowning, she stood to let her leader know about the woman.
It was the middle of the night when the woman was woken by searing pain going through her body. She cried out in pain, just before realizing what it was. The baby. The baby was coming. Lucibelle jumped from where she had been dozing, and was quickly by the woman's side. She felt panicked. If she was giving birth now, she would never have enough strength to survive this... But she called to other healers for help and together they stayed with the woman for hours, through her cries of pain, weakening all the time. At the end, they were barely more than whimpers. Then suddenly, a loud cry could be heard. That of a baby. But the mother was dying. She smiled a little at her baby and put her hand on her head; it was a girl.
"Mina." she breathed before her eyes closed.
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