Must Read: A Broken Destiny: The Sword Of Vengeance

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Must Read: A Broken Destiny: The Sword Of Vengeance

Kieran
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She kept on saying that we needed to get to the border over and over again till I couldn’t take it anymore. I had to tell her politely to keep quiet, as I thought of ways to get us out of this mess. The soldiers were hot on our trail and might soon catch up with us. But despite her fear, she kept on riding through the woods like she was born there. She glided her way through the thick forest without leading her horse to any halt and I wondered how she was doing it as there was no clear path through which one could travel. It then became clear to me that she must probably have a sort of special connection with her horse or the horse was well trained. We rode all night and through the next day without stopping once. I thought we should as the horse must have been very tired. I told the old woman my thoughts but she didn’t reply or say anything after. The soldiers didn’t stop coming after us and I wondered how their horses were still alive, but then these people don’t care about their fellow humans, surely they won’t be so bothered about a beast. I knew that if there was a bowman among them, we would have been long apprehended, stupid of the strange man not to have brought one along. The unusual thing about the whole chase was that for some unexplained reason, we kept the same distance apart, well until we got close enough to the border, where it all began to get rough.
As soon as we got to the wide path that led to the border, the old woman quickly disembarked from the horse with so much agility which surprised me and I followed her move, hoping it might get us away from these mean men. She left the horse after whispering some words to it and then headed for the huge gate separating the kingdom from the north.
Soon, the men arrived and I heard one of them screaming for the gates to be shut.

“We must hurry, we must be behind the gate or even the good spirits won’t be able to save us. “She said. The men disembarked from their horses screaming for the innocent travelers to leave the path and pushing those who didn’t move on time, the unlucky got some kicks. They must have seen us come down from the horse; this wasn’t looking good at all as the huge gates were beginning to descend. We were really close to the gates when someone pulled both of us away from the crowd, and asked us to get in the back of a cart carrying hay. We were trying to resist but the man who was a soldier, going by his dress was surely not a patient one and just pushed us inside before locking the door up.

“Move Jelai and drop them at the northern gate. Tell Anna, old lady, I do not own her anything after this.” The impatient soldier said before we headed for the gate. The gates were almost down and everyone was ordered to stop but our cart was allowed to go through and I wondered why. From outside the gate, I could hear men asking if they saw a tall man with black hair and a pale old woman. I breathed a sigh of relief as I could now stop looking over my shoulders for the time being.
In the tiny little place we were hidden, I faced the old lady who all this time had been staring at me and I wasn’t even aware , and I asked,
“ Who is Anna?”