Back from death

She couldn't move, she felt the chains around her neck, wrist and ankles. She felt the broken bones in her body and the several wounds, still bleeding. Her face was all bruised up, yellow and blue, along her cheeks. She felt the pool of blood around her, yet she didn't break. She wasn't going to turn on her kingdom. Let them cut her into pieces and she wouldn't care, she knew that nobody was coming. They thought that she was dead. Well, it's better that way, she thought to herself, as the cell door opened again, but she was exhausted. She would break soon enough. She knew it as well. She couldn't look up but the captain tilted her head up with his sword to meet his gaze. She spat blood onto his feet, her breath like shards of glass in her throat. "Shall we continue my dear?" He said with a voice calm and cold like death.

She had gritted her teeth together from the pain, not to scream but tears flowed down her cheeks until she couldn't take it. She could feel the blood down her back, her face, the broken bones in her rib cage and arms. Her head between her shoulders, too tired to look up, but she wasn't broken...yet. She opened her mouth to take a deep breath but it was a mistake she felt how the whip sank into her back, opening a deep cut, and the scream that escaped.

"Tell us the numbers of your armies and the current location and you may live" he was enjoying it. His eyes full of amusement and his cold smile. "Death is waiting for me either way," she told him but her voice was like a whisper in the air. The guard behind her raised the whip again and she closed her eyes as he struck, and out of control she spoke.

"The fields.....in the south...." the captain kneeled in front of her and met her gaze."

"And?" He asked her, but she didn't reply. He punched her so hard in the stomach that air left her lungs and the world started spinning around her. They left her...finally but she was still chained. She let her tears flow as she was alone. She fought the urge to pass out until she couldn't. She was too exhausted she wanted the pain to go away. She gave in and everything went black.

After some time, orders and warnings were shouted around until everything went silent and her cell door opened. Her eyes opened a bit, enough to see who was in front of her, and she couldn't believe it. His name was like a prayer on her lips. He was shocked and rushed to her. He could feel her broken wrists so he opened the chains carefully and she fell against him. "It's okay, you're safe now." he whispered to her ear but she passed out again. She had lost too much blood and the pain was unbearable even for the strongest soldier.

He helped her stand up, his hand gently around her waist and her arm around him. He walked them back to Alex who then teleported them back to the Castle. They called the healers in right away and they started working on her. Sam couldn't hold his tears back anymore, seeing his love in that situation. His Amirah broken. "What have they done to you?" he thought to himself. The healers told him to leave so they could continue their work and he was waiting behind the door.

After hours they let him in and he rushed to her side and held her hand tightly and prayed to every god he knew to keep her alive to let him keep his Amirah..after what felt like ages she opened her eyes again and he smiled tears in his eyes from the relief he pushed her hair gently behind her ear "rest" he told her, she couldn't speak much so she fell a sleep again Sam still holding her hand. He was there...by her side..all night holding her hand not even sleeping for a minute even tho he needed it. The healers had told them that she had suffered so much that she probably won't be able to continue as an agent due to her injuries, but it didn't matter...she was alive...she was there...with him

-Asterin Blackbeak 13