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     An odd expression crossed Troy’s face before it disappeared.  “We do not question the king’s order.  If you had any sense you wouldn’t also.”            Troy gave a brief order to his men before they left Gavin there standing there in the middle of the forest.              What had he done?             

     (YOLANDA’S P.O.V)                       

     They dragged her through the wood to where six horses sat awaiting them.             

      Two men came forward one carrying some sort of damp cloth.  She cared not what they did now.             

     She sat there and moved not when one of them grabbed her hands through the net to hold them behind her back.  The other covered her mouth and nose with the damp cloth. The odd smell consumed her slowly.  A haze covered her eyes and slowly she found herself falling into the deep depths of darkness.   

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     Yolanda awoke to the feeling of cold stone against her face.  Her eyes opened and were covered by a light haze.  She blinked a few times to clear her eyes.  Her head felt like it weighed too much for her body and the smell of the liquid still lingered in her nose.             

     She made a move as if to stretch her stiff body but at that moment she realized she couldn’t.  He head came up with a snap and she immediately regretted it as a rush of dizziness assaulted her senses.             

     It took a moment but the room finally stopped spinning.  She gazed around at her new surroundings.  She was in a small stone chamber with the only exit appearing to be a large stone door.             

     She tried to move but realized she couldn’t.  She looked down t her numb legs to see that she was sitting on them and her wrists were currently chained to the wall above her head and the cold stone she had felt when she had first awoken was her face resting against the cold filthy wall of her cell.            

     She worked for a moment before finally moving her numb legs out from under her body and sighed in relief as the blood began to flow within them once again.             

     She tried to use a spell to pick the lock but it was then that she realized that the manacles were enchanted disabling any magic in her body.           

     Memories of Gavin’s deceit began their cruel assault of her mind.  He had put her here.  He had planned it from the moment before they met.  The entire time he had merely been leading her to her doom.  Now she would meet the same fate her mother had met.             

     Tears began to streak down her filthy face but after the first few coursed down her face she fought them back.  She refused to cry.  She knew that even though Gavin had ruined her life she still loved him despite everything.             

     Her head came up again at the sound of the door being unlocked.  It was only a moment later before a tall slightly chubby man entered her cell.   The man she had hoped she would never have to see.  The man who had began the ruin of her life.  The man who had chased her and killed the ones she loved.  The king had decided to pay her a visit.            

     He smiled his vicious smiled.  “Good day my dear,” he laughed.  “It seems I have captured the great sorceress at last.”           

     She snorted.  “You didn’t capture me.  You had one of your knights to do it for you.  Pretty pathetic that you couldn’t come after me yourself or even your big brave knights could catch me without the work of trickery.”           

     She was not prepared for when the king came forward and kicked her hard in her stomach.  She bowed her head and refused to show her pain.             

     The king laughed at her.  “I would watch your mouth girl when I am that is in control.”           

     She laughed and gazed up at him smiling with tears shining in her eyes.  “Such a pitiful man who would kick a woman who was chained to a wall and probably suffering from days of dehydration and starvation but I guess that is the only way you would ever have a chance at beating me.”           

     His face grew red with anger and he was about to say something when she interrupted him.             

     “What shall it be?  A drowning, like my mother or maybe you would like to be more creative with a beheading,” she knew she was signing over her own death with every word but it mattered not any longer.  Nothing in her life mattered.  The man she loved had betrayed her; she had nothing else to live for.  “Do your worse for I care no longer.”  The tears were flowing freely now and she hated that this man would see her in such a weak state but she didn’t care.             

     He crouched down to come right up in her face.  “Your tears do no move me my girl.  And no I have my own punishment for you.  A hanging seems well enough for you.  You will be hung a noon tomorrow in the town square where all may watch the defeat of the famous sorceress of the woods.”           

     With those words he stood and smiled down at her fragile form before leaving her alone in her cell.  Once the door closed behind him she broke down, her sobs coming in earnest now.             

      It looked like she had finally lost. 

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