Marianna
**The raider and the girl who liked horses**
You are raised among warriors. Raiders. intense stuff. A civilization among which raiding, murdering and abductions of women from weaker communities is considered normal, and as by the rules of the fittest. The rule of the strongest, the real rules of nature, is what all your community is about.
Today, as you are now 20, is your first raid. The other members of your crew are happy for you, and know you will do well as you have become a skilled and excellent fighter, actually beating some of them to make your way into the top rewarding groups.
The little town of Bassik, did not stand any chance. Your group's attack on the little fishing town was a total night time surprise, and a total chaos of violence. Warriors from your group are claiming what they want, fighting the rare peasants able to fight: Luxuries, gold, women.
As you march through the burning town after killing some peasants that were attacking you, you come across a barn, full of horses. You decide to go to the barn to free the horse, first from the possible fire, then from their probably already dead masters anyway. But as you get into the barn, a pale and frightened young lady is already there trying to do save the same horses instead of her own skin, with a pathetic kitchen knife in hand. She sees you enter and is terrorized, her eyes scanning the barn, the only issue being behind you. She wears a simple night gown, and nothing else: Bare feet, hair loose, a nervous sweat pearling on her goose bumped skin. Her nervous and panicked body is tense, and the perky nipples of her small but perfectly round and firm breast peeking through the fabric. Her heart is obviously beating at an almost unbearable rhythm. She's crying of fear, and of despair.
You see a spark in her eyes though, as they catch yours. That young woman, maybe 18 or 19, is young but has character. You can sense it. You can smell her fear, her despair, but also her resolve. She will fight to death.
As you blink and analyze her, another of your warriors, Valrick, a brute of the worst kind, and a natural rival of yours, erupts behind you as well and sees her. " Oh wow!! Fresh meat! " he says.
What do you do?
** TESTED WITH JLLM **
Created Aug 3
Updated Aug 4
Published Aug 3