Chapter 1

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Feriha Hatun

My head is banging and my mouth stings. I can hear sounds around me. Some sound like laughter, some sound surprised and others sound confused. I slowly flutter my eyes open to find out where I am. As my eyes open, I am met with the darkest and dullest eyes I have ever seen, if you can even call them a person that is. The 'person' looming over me moved back a bit and I noticed greasy, long hair; dull, brown eyes; thick, bushy eyebrows; skin that appeared stretched to cover the bones on their round face; and dry lips that just about covered yellowing, bucked teeth. I look the person down further only to see the person is incredibly fat and wearing heavyily-plated armour. I think this is a man? I have no idea how it could be a woman but I did just wake up from what I assume was a long slumber.

I rub my eyes and try to stand up only to find that I am chained to a wall behind me. As I struggle in an attempt to get out of the shackles, I hear deep, loud laughter. I turn to the man who was hovering above me, but he didn't appear to be smiling, let alone laughing. I heard the laughter once again and this time I followed the sound to straight ahead. I direct my eyes to where I think he is and notice his figure slowly moving out of the shadows. As he comes into the light, I notice the similarity in appearance to the man who was previously hovering over me. The only differences between the two is that this one is older and has a lot of blackness on his eyes ( it's basically guyliner but idk if they would call it that at that time) and his teeth are a darker shade of yellow, almost brown.

He slowly approaches me until he is standing right in front of me and then he grabs my face. "Well aren't you a pretty little thing?" He says to me. I don't respond and try to move my face out of his grip causing him to tighten it on my face, pressing his nails  into my cheekbones. I yelp in pain and he lets go, smirking and tapes my mouth. "So you are a woman of the Kayi tribe, huh? Well you're tribe is weak and your leader, weaker. Now I have you. Daughter in law of that old man Suleyman Shah. Now, you are going to stay here until someone tries to save you and then I'll kill you. In the meantime you will stay here as my slave and do whatever I tell you to" he smiles at me, showing his brown teeth. He rips the tape off my mouth and I scream. He slaps me and starts to walk away.  I spit out blood from the blow to my face, which undoubtedly will make a scar. "Who the hell even are you?" I ask before he leaves the room. He turns around and says "I am Ögedei Khan..."

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