Chapter 4

It was early next morning, May was feeling down today, she kept on thinking about yesterday, how her brother had been so scared, that look on his face was what he raised his voice at me for the first time, May kept on pondering about it, that day he had a bad day with some of his friends and had come back to the castle angry, May was happy to see her brother that afternoon as she was home all days, she fell sick and couldn’t go out, trying to cheer my older brother up she thought to herself, how things escalated, she cries and he hated seeing her cry, he had tried to calm her down but she found her way to her bedroom and locked the door for a whole day. She decided to have her bath and get to school on time to avoid a bad record, it was something she hated. May was all set and decided to leave her hair down today, it had been a long time. She looked at herself in the mirror and had wanted to pack it back up, but time wasn’t on her side, so she left her dorm.

May got to school as she had predicted, she didn’t need to get into class until 30 minutes from now, she thought as she walked down the school entrance, she walked slowly taking in the way the breeze was so cool this morning, the sun was shining bright on its side, she saw some girls sitting on the grass just ahead of her, how bright their smile was she had thought, the joy, the laughter’s, when would she get that again, she needed it so much, she felt she’s broken, no man would want her, no, not like this, it’s why she took up the daily task of training herself day and night whenever she watched her brother and father train or even the warriors, she had always hated sewing, she wants to fight, make a name for herself out of what she knew she loved doing best, she had always wished she was a warrior even before her mother passed away, she could have saved her then, yes, she said to herself, she most times blames herself for letting death take her mother away from her, she would have never wanted me sowing, I got here by chance, because of the three powers I had which I am yet to prove to father, and promising to come out best and with a powerful suitor so she wouldn’t be married off.

May's power seems threatening enough, many hunters have heard of powers like hers, she didn’t want to risk it all, she loved her family so dear, she knew they would do anything to protect her, she thought, they lie to her they aren’t in danger even when they are because of her, thinking marrying her off to a king with enough power would keep her safe? But they are wrong, May knew they were wrong, she had a feeling that was the same reason her mother had died. She was lied to, they told her everything was going to be okay, father promised me, they all told me that, but she had lost it all after they killed her.

May was almost in tears as she remembered that very day. She just needed to focus, her mother would have wanted her to be what she wanted, oh dear, how she loved her mother, she wouldn’t let father marry her off, not as long as she was alive at that moment, she wanted her to be safe but not as some kind of slave, not as just a lady who is scared of her power no training, just to sit on some throne and command servants, bare children to whoever she’s going to be enslaved to, she had begged her father with any love he had for her mother, let her mother’s dream come through, she had promised father she would make sure she gets to train to control and use all her three powers, it had been ages since one was able to, bug she just knew she could do it, she was strong enough, many from other realms had waited thousand of years to bore one like her, to have someone in their realm do what she had promised her father, and once they get words of her success, war they would ask for, that she was sure about, they would get to propose a plan to marry her to their sons, nephews and all, they would go to whatever extent it was to even capture her, use her as some kind of sacrifice, or worship her as a god she is not, but now she gets to get married to whoever steals her heart two years after she masters all of her three powers if not she could even get married to someone old enough to be her grandfather.

She forbids that, she would rather die, and burn in hell before that could happen to her. She kept on thinking of her goals, the reason why she was here, and any fault then she is out of there, her father’s voice still rings loud in her ear.