Kaleenon's Witness

n the rest and was now written in red ink no longer black like it was be

and slumped her shoulders in defeat resulting into a full blown smile on his face. She crinkled in disgust as he touched her face wiping her tears

ing her across the cheek enough to draw blood. He br

ore his tongue burned and he began

ope had revealed itself. Her bl

e a mistake?” The elder was immediatel

f you don’t understand how but she is.” He wiped saliva off the e

rom behind but the wailing child’s weight brought them both to the ground. Gentle

lease sto

eaving the mother to use her instincts. Hayso shook her head in a silent protest. “They are going to take me." The l

ith them, I rather di

forehead and the pained drags of bre

ell mute and clutched her cheek as the stinging pain

ate

I have an idea, a way of

y surprise as she had planned to wash on the morrow, now she was running for her life. Hurriedly packing her messed up dresses, she sighted a yellow tunic that she had worn on her first day of arrival at the camp. A

athered few clothes into her bag and swung her bow over shoulder in a criss cross position. She placed her quiver of arrows over her back with the bag too. She in front of everyone else at this point looked horri

yah, and the latter was the only one she had formed a bond with. Hayso hid behind a pillar at the sound of approaching footsteps. She covered her lips hoping

us. Her father, Onan used to drink it a lot. Every sunset, he would take his fiasco under the oak tree and there he would stay as he soliloquized to himself. He would either talk about the merchants he owed money or praise the st

id image of gran Ingrid crossed her mind leaving a hollow feeling in her heart. She was going back to her even

ehind getting the guard’s attention. “I was parched, I re

se that something was off. “In that case then

she whipped around fast enough to shoot the guard straight into the wall in the opposite direction but unfortunately he wasn’t knocked out.

nd the pillar. “Oh my, you

don’t have

. At first, she could have sworn it was the gua

othes.

g the stronger mage conjured up an invisible spell giving them coverage as they approached the high walls of the camp. Removing her hood,

hi

breath, she had opted to do it herself not letting them get caught simply because an apprentice had forgotten a sp

stone. She fell with speed but still remained suspended in air. She moved a foot firs

o, fo

signal to continue. Both girls ran with all their might, this time Hayso had casted an invisible spell to shield them from whateve

ed few times to catch their breath and drink some water, whe

the water

ing the sides, she brought out t

ustration. “Is there

is time she opened it to p

yes and gently swirled it round. “Han sha pandrek.” She repeated the wor

ng.” Hayso st

und her lips. Facing the opposite direction, she

’s the sound of water. We are close to the river, we would nee

. “Now I wish

und the sea so we could find the merchants first thin

ad already planned their escape without involvi

shed her hands as she did so and a splinter had sneaked it’s way in between her thumb. Hayso fl

mb.” Aaliyah examined her h

pell yourself, I can’t

good at this

and so was even the arch mage

o in

ur breath and

he gentle hooting of the owls, the crickets making noises in the dark. The only

t after practicing with Maasai, she would get slight wounds and no matter how she casted the spell it seemed the hardest. One time Maasai had shot her on the knee, it hadn’t been on purpose but she spent the day limping. The arch mage had refused any

d great

in excitement

we still have a long

ding doom startled her and t

didn’t mean

lence prevailed over them for a short while before Hayso broke it. Her thoughts

know, why can’t we fight back with it? What’s stopping us from getting back our freedom from t

y gran in Gusac, after my parents died, she would always tell me about the cruelty she faced when she w

er experienced it first han

g, this is the first time I have ever been this far away from home and only because I told gran that I wanted to be a mage.” The thoug

ard anyone opt for dancing so easily, dancing in Petrabeth was an em

e a much better

r than that, trading, fishing, a

out from their hold, she adjusted her back on the makes

to amaze me.” She wiped snot off her nose. “Dan

lling the cloth she had impro

Hayso, dancing?” Sh

cause no sooner had she done that, Aaliyah was right beside her, taking deep and slow breaths. Hayso rolled over facing the sk

n the darkness she could swear she saw her sclera or maybe it was her imagination playing tricks on her. She faced the sky again but this time her eyes were shut and her ears had tun

unted bursting into a

Hayso rol