Anjian open her eyes looking at the roof of the tent, turning left seeing a man with a long beard and broad shoulders sleeping quietly,she slowly gets up and wears her grey trousers, placing her hand on the inward feeling the two knobs and the knives and then wears a thin piece of leather to cover her upper body and walks towards the light, being always five meters close to all directions of the tents and the mud getting in her leather shoes.
She opens the door and walks away from the house and rest at a tree seeing the sun high above the short and white tents, men mostly of middle age walking downhill towards the hill with a lean road at the right leading down the shore and taking their animals where the grass grows and the waves of the sea crush.
Anjian eyes narrow and look at the sparkling sea for many minutes and after several minutes she sees giant silhouettes on the horizon, her eyes wide open in an instant, from the east and west sides of the hills smoke rise, and men, children and women soon come out from their tents with bronze and silver swords but Anjian walks away, reaching a hill away from the tents and sits down to the plain grass, overseeing everything.
In the evening the ships reach the hill, and spears fall to them from the hills but the men get blown by rapid explosions, Anjian gets up and look closely at the explosions along with the people's bodies flying all over.
She starts slowly walking up the hill and as she reaches the tents she sees her people form a circle, she goes beside them and sees their leader a tall muscular man with a beard reaching his chest, and opposite of him a skinny tall man wearing the orchid color mask and the two black pupils looking at the muscular man, the crowd cheer as they whistle and clang swords "hartal" The man show his palms and laughs are heard along with Hartal looking him with inferiority, Hartal point his double edged axe forward and the man with the mask stands still, he rushes to the man with his axe at the height of the masked man's throat and as it reaches with great speed the man raised his right palm and the axe dissipate in an instant, the crowd silence and Hartal look at his arms with his mouth open as the man approach him slowly.
Hartal steps his foot back and clutch his fists, letting a war cry and hitting the man in the shoulder making him step back and stop for a heartbeat before walking again, Hartal punch again but the man raise his right palm and Haltar's arms catch fire that quickly spreads to his body and evaporates leaving a small flame before it fades.
The people frozen look at the man and he says with a calm and elegant voice "nomads of the north silcia,
I have a proposal, join me and the kingdom of ygvesen and we will only ask you to aid us in war along with having a loyal horde for us and in turn we will let you on your own with only a small amount of our warriors to stay alongside you to use them jn war however you please and trade routes to buy and sell what wish"
The people surprised stay silent, one of them goes forward and says "how can you speak our language so well?" "I have studied it for many years along with your culture" the silence continues and the man says "I and my men will stand on the hill, we will wait for your response until the morning" the soldiers and the man walk at the hill and start laying their tents along with food, clothes and weapons, Anjian stare at them and starts clutching and opening her hands fast, from behind she hears a deep voice "Aifa won't you like another round on the bed with me?" Anjian turn and sees the man he slept with, with a dull voice she reply "go away Afand, I'm not interested" the man grabs her from her arm and press at her with strength "I asked you gently, that means you can't deny it" she sigh "fine, let's go to the tent, just leave my hand" afand release her and she calmly walk to the tent, for a moment she looks behind seeing Afand
Calling with his hand another man, Anjian look forward and goes into the tent, Afand and the other man cone behind her, she turn her gaze at them and see them throwing their clothes in the mud and approaching her, Anjian takes her leather cloth and the men grow a sinister smirk, slowly she place her hand at the trouser and grabs the knife cutting the knob and as the men touch her with both arms she swiftly plunges the knife at Afands skull and pulls it, the other man grabs her from the neck shouting "filthy gaire" Anjian tries to break from his hold with the one hand and with the other she raise the knife but the man grabs and hold her arm tight, Anjian kicks her legs but the man doesn't leave "in the situation we have come it will be sad to kill a beautiful woman before I enjoy it" Anjian feels the man's hand press her throat, as she place her free hand at the trouser, cutting the knob and placing it on the man's throat before he could shout.
Anjian push the man from her and her heart calms for a moment before she look at the light coming outside the tent, she gets up and her stare become cold, starting walking outside and for a moment she look behind her seeing a man walking towards the tent, she starts going faster and look back again seeing the man entering the tent, she starts running and behind her she hears men shouting, her breath becomes heavy and could not dare to look anywhere except the hill, she holds the knife tight and before she could reach it two men grab her, one her arms and the other her legs, she shouts and soon she is surrounded by men, her body freeze and her eyes couldn't move, the men start tearing her clothes, feeling their fingers scratching their body, soon young boys join and as they come closer a soothing voice is heard "what is happening here?" The men turn and look at the man with the mask, the man's black pupils focus on Anjian and one of the men says "this is our rules if s woman doesn't listen, you have no place in this" "I know very well about your cultutre, this also means your justice system "
The man look at Anjian and her eyes reveal her fear, the man look at her carefully and he goes forward still looking at her and the people look at him carefully still holding Anjian as she couldn't turn her gaze away, the man Raise his left arm and says "if you want to change your life come with me" Anjian slowly tryied to break free of their hold.
He whispers "marvelous" the men and the boys look at him with anger "you have to pay if you want to take her" the man grabs his twisted black and purple clothe and pulls it revealing the plethora of colours inside and many pockets all over it, he place his hand in one of them and throws golden coins all over the ground, the men look at it and from the tents women peak their head to see it, the men toss them towards the man "we do not want these useless things" "oh i know very well these things are useless to you, until tomorrow where ships with goods and animals will come, then you can trade the coins with them and gain many more things from them than i could give you" the men look hesitant "if you lie to us we will cut your skin piece by piece"
"Oh there is no need to lie, wait until the sun reach its highest point and you will see the ships at the horizon"
The men start arguing between them "why should we listen to him and not kill him right now? He may be bringing more people to kill us" the man laugh silently
"Believe me that i could have already killed you if i wanted, besides the traders will only come with animals and exotic plants, the weapons will be very few and they will stay for a night before they sail again, " the men whisper to each other and finally speak "alright, but if they stay more than one night we will kill you all" the man nods his head and grabs Anjian swirling his clothe around Anjian and carries her until he reach one of the camps "bring water, clothes and food for this woman" Anjian stays paralyzed, her eyes twitching before they close.
Her eyes slowly open looking at the tent, she quickly gets up and look around her, her heart beating fast for a moment before the silence amd the emptiness calm her, she look arpund clearly and sees a chest and a mirror where red clothes with gold lines on the sleeves meet at the chest forming a tree.
She gets up and takes them as her gaze lock the mirror, seeing a scratch on her cheek and her arms and many more at her stomach, chest and legs, she look with a cold stare before she wears the clothes and goes back to the bed bleeping in an instant and suddenly starting sobbing silently, having her eyes closed and her hands tightly holding the bed
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