Chapter 1
I had woken
again to the familiar sound of drums as the head woman walked into the room where we all slept. We meaning the girls who had been chosen for the task. The task, none of us knew what that had meant, but we were certain it wasn't all fun and games. Not meaning to be lashed again, I'd lazily rolled out of my pallet and dressed in a leather bodysuit that the other 11 girls had also been forced to wear. My waist-length black hair was pulled into a high ponytail as I looked at myself in the mirror for the first time in 2 years. I had a very slim face and small nose with big amber eyes and few blemishes. Purposely not speaking to anyone, including Jordan, my best friend whom was grabbing her dagger and sword before she walked out into the training area, I quickly slipped out of the house and ran to the creek. The creek where nobody ever went and anyone who was caught there got themselves an automatic death sentence. The creek where he'd said he'd be. The dream walker. Me, I'm an empath. I can tell when people are lying and with great difficulty can read their minds. My friend, Conner , is a dream walker. Although he doesn't even know me yet, he only knows about me but Im sure we'd be great friends. As I approached the creek I hear what sounding like thousands of people running. Confused and slightly alarmed I'd turn around, grabbing my bow off of my back and setting my senses. What I saw was worse than the thousand deaths that anyone could have died. What I saw...it was enough to rip my soul apart. And I found, as I continued to stare at the scene that was unwillingly being refused by my eyes, that it was very difficult not to scream. I saw a wall of everyone I cared about, even if conflicted, dead. The blood was seeping through the ground and in the distance I could have sworn that I heard a faint howl but what came next was so disaperating that I probably was mistaken. Just 15 minutes ago the ground from where I stood looked as though it fell from the earth and was replaced by light. I light so blinding that, After I'd looked at it I felt my body hit the ground as I lost consciousness. All was well now, as here I had no feelings.
