The Adventure of Vetre

Chapter 1

As I stare death in the face I wonder what my parents have done. My house was burned down by deserters. Things have been getting worse ever since Lord Gartic took over. The war keeps raging on in the borderlands.

As I was trapped in my room and I was choking on the smoke that was pouring into my room from the cracks I kept ramming my shoulder into the door. My should felt it was going to explode, but I couldn't stop for fear that I was going to faint from the smoke. I rammed the door once again and it blew out of it's hinges and I ran out of the house.

I started to look around in the dark for my family hoping to god that they made it out alright. I started to get fearful that they were still in the house. I started to run back into the house when it collapsed into a pile of ashes and I could fell that my family was somewhere in those ashes and that they would remain their.

That's when I heard the shouts, the mean that started the fire where coming back to search for survivors and for supples. I ran to the stables and grabbed Touret. I threw the saddle on Touret and harnessed her up as fast as I could. I then rode out of the stables as fast as I could.

I rode through out the night under the cover dark until I reached my uncle's house. I jumped off my horse and ran to my uncle and told him everything that had happened. "Uncle the house, my family, deserters-" Uncle, "Vetre Slow down and explain everything" Vetre, "...the house burned down, mom, dad, and sister died in the fire" Uncle, "Vetre it's fine it'll all be over soon" Vetre, "Uncle what do you mean?"

Deserters, "This is the one that escaped?" Uncle, "Yes it is" Deserters, "This one will catch a fair price as a slave" Uncle, "Do what you will with him I don't care" Vertre, "Uncle how can you do this!" Uncle, "Times are tough" Vetre, "Uncle you will pay for this!" Uncle, "Take him away" Vetre, "I will kill you!"

Chapter 2

The trip took what seemed like ages but in reality it was around 5 days. They barely feed me any food the way to Xequa and what they did give me was always old and gross. By the time I got to Xequa I could barely walk.