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Chapter 6

       The big man carries me in their wagon and covers my eyes, I don't know where we are going but I know it will be not good. After a while, the wagon stopped, and the man suddenly grabs my arm and drags me as well. After that they remove the cover from my eyes and throw me in a chair, I hit my knee on the chair before I sit down. The big man sits down on the other side, "Do you speak English? English?" the big man said trying, I nodded but he got angry because I did not speak so I replied, "Yes, yes, I do." I scared said. 

         Then another man came, he walks to the big man and whisper something in his ears, the big man stands up and the young man sit down, he started to speak, "Well, your English is good, are you an American or British?" I hesitated to answer but if I don't answer him the big man might hit me already, "I don't know what you called it but, maybe between the two?" The young man got confused and the big man ask him but the young man looked at me again, "well, if that is what you said, but can I ask, what are you doing in the middle of the forest? Where is your family? How did you get there?" I bit my lips then I answer,"I actually don't know when I woke up, I just found myself lying in the forest, but before that, I was lying in the middle of the desert. And, my family, they are all dead because of an infection." I answered then the man asks again, "is that so, you don't know why you are here and you said you came from the desert and suddenly came here, is that right?" I don't know what is happening but I answered, "Yes, that is right." 

         The young man suddenly burst into laughter and the other big guys laughed as well, after a while the young man ask me again, "are you a witch or a spy?" the big man suddenly change his face and it seems he understands the word witch or spy, so he grabs me in my neck and chokes me, "Ty shpion ili ved'ma? (Are you a spy or a witch?)" I can't answer him because he is choking me very hard but I tried to speak little by little, "I... *trying to breathe* am... neither" I said, then the young man stops the big man and put me down. I tried to breathe but it is hard and I can't say anything. Then the young man suddenly said, "well, well look into whoever you are, but today is enough." The young man as well as the other big guy follow him outside until they left.

        After a while, I fell asleep on the ground and the young man came into my cell again, "are you feeling alright?" he asked, then I replied, "No, I don't know why I am here but I did not do something bad, please let me go." I begged, "Forgive me, but I cannot grant your request. We found you in the middle of the forest without an identity and you don't know where you came from. You are an intruder, spy, or witch. That is only your choice." "But I am not. I came from a poor family in the east and I have nothing to do with your war." The young man sits on my bed and asks, "Then, where are they?" "I already told you that they are already dead, my parents and siblings died of an unknown disease, while my older sister who survived with me died in the middle of the desert as well as I." "But why are you alive if you are dead as you speak." "I did not say that I die, I just collapsed and suddenly found myself here." "How is that possible if you are alone in the middle of the desert?" I stop my argument when he asks me this question, I also don't know how it happened but here I am. Then he sighs and said, "Whatever, the people are scared of you because you are one of the two, either a witch or a spy, so in three days, we will decide your faith, either death or we will sell you to another seller and become his slave for the rest of your life." The young man walked away again and left, leaving me there alone.

      Three days have past and, and the day is today. After, my talk with that young man, my life started to become hell, the other big guys always came into my cell and rape me every day and night. I only eat once a day with spit and a small piece of meat and rice. I don't know why this is happening to me but every time I resist, they hurt me and continue with their business. I grew tired in those days and today, I will know my faith, either death or slavery for the rest of my life. They drag me again and bring me to the middle of the crowd with ripped clothes, there are men, women, and children looking at me with disgust and they are whispering into each other that I don't understand. 

       The young man speaks in front of them, "My vse znayem, pochemu my zdes' segodnya, verno? (We all know why we are here today, right?)" then the people shouted, "Da (Yes)" "We are here to see what this woman's faith is, either death or slavery. She once said to me that she is just a commoner like you, but the truth is she is a witch!" the people gasped as well as I, my eyes grew big in my surprised. I did not say that he is lying but I cannot say something because of the bruises they had given to me. Then, he continued, "so, what do you think? Shall we kill her, or we sell her." The people's face is full of disgust, pain, afraid, and other expression but they shouted, "Death, Death, smert', smert'" They want me dead, but why? The people started to bring the tools to behead me, torture me, and other materials to kill me. I don't know what to do and just close my eyes as they are starting to behead me, when, a shout was heard behind the crowd "Silence!"