More than a man

lose to the crowd, wondering why people was there until she sta

cheered but Penelope shook her head. Hope, that was what this man is selling, nothing else, it would be a miracle if he does deliver on his promises but maybe she was just the one who

do everything in my capability to make that time and its effects short for yo

t out a sack of something heavy, thrust his hand insid

ok the crowd a minute to register what happened before pandemonium broke out as p

to pick a few coins before hands started to reach for her. Using her thin figure to an advantage, she broke free from the hold of others on her and raced as far as she could from the crowd, some p

ice said as she cringed, why didn

ir." Penelope said stiffly as she turned to make her escape fro

g stepped in front of her to block her exit and she

or it." Penelope explained in case he had seen her eating earlier, it was not the first time she

. Empty you

coins which she was already planning

ou anything more than just food or the rich noble man you spoke with later on." The bull

't give the coins away. Those were her ti

was going on, the one behind her gripped her arms as another gave her a punch on her f

y finally saw her coins, all three of them. "J

rotested as the leader struck her with

ys up to it?" Penelope could only curl in on herself as she was kicked fro

where she called home, a special place where she hid her clothes and anything that still held meaning for her, hidden be

r bags of rags which she used to staunch the flow of blood. "What is he

if there is anything that she can salvage from the mess those people were making so she could find a new hide out and a place that is far away from these group of boys as possible.

secured as she would have liked it to be but it was also the best she could see, she

coins which would have saved from weeks of hunger now was what her mother used to give her every month to buy anything she will as long as it had to do with things that will enhance her beauty as

ure and could go back to that simple lifestyle. It wasn't long after her eyes went close that her sleep was disturbed by some n

tature, dirty clothes and bruised body begs the person who stood in front of him, his face a shadow casted

just that. I would be doing the empire a great service by ridding it of scums like you who would give it a bad name

st spare me, I will never try it again." The boy

on his face. The face which currently held hard eyes with an unforgiving glint and lips which were stretched in a grin that spoken

but the Prime Minister t

d just as he dug the knife into the boy c

od up and took off in a dead sprint, ignoring her pain, she could feel the pain if she was alive, she wouldn

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