Where Have They Gone..

where it began

"Push Lara, push your almost there." The kind doctor instructed, settled between the woman's legs, eyebrow knitted a look of concentration on his face.

Lara, a woman that got raped by the guard at the rare palace , drenched in sweat laying on a bed with white sheets now soaked in blood . Curtains thrown over a post above the bed that she could hold onto to give her strength and a sense of comfort.

"Ahhhh, GODESSSSS." Lara screamed, lifting her head off the pillow staring back into the headboard.

Lara, while fighting to bring the child in the world, had flash backs of how her family treated her after she told them she got taken advantage of. Her mother simply remained quiet as her father told her she was now useless to the family,  that she was their way out of poverty. That,she wanted it to happen to her, that she got pregnant  by someone who no longer wanted her and is now wanting trouble for the family. 

How her siblings turn their heads away, some faced her with a look of disgust.

The feelings she felt then and what they said, even how they looked at her, made her realize that she was unwelcomed by her family long before she was in that situation.  Though she wasn't treated badly, her siblings barely talked to her, they took her nowhere , she was just sent to school fed and left alone.

She wondered in the back of her mind why she kept the child , whether she would be a good mother, if the child would havea good life, and that she would have a good life.

In the midst of her thoughts and flashbacks, pain ran through her.

Now, back to reality, it is so unbearable the pain she is now going through. The doctor screams at her in joy.

"One last push, Lara, and you will welcome your child!"

Another scream left Lara, her knuckles white from holding onto the curtain for strength.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhh."

A screaming child covered in slime, gue, and blood held in the doctors arms and passed over to the nurse that had a warm bath waiting. Lara did not see the child , she was astranged to herself and her entire situation.  In a tiny building made of clay, dirt,wood, and a thatched roof. The doctor and his nurse tidy up the area . Hot water was being used to clean up Lara by the  woman who took her in . Her name is Elsi, as cold as her father but as sweet and gentle as her mother once was.

Elsi found her in the cold on the path to her village and took her home.

Lara  had run away....

She fed her,  gave her work, and treated her strangly as a husband would a wife. But never once did she speak a word. Just touched her face ,nod or simply held her in her arms while they slept on the bed she now laid in and had given birth to her daughter,  at least she thought  it was a daughter, more trouble for a fatherless child and an abandoned daughter. 

Lara cried......

She sobbed......

The child cried.....

Elsi paid the doctor and the nurse with gold coins, and they left. She then took the sheets to have them washed . And left a now clean Lara and a crying baby be.

When Elsi returned from the main town one hour later, Lara was feeding the newborn child and staring into space. Elsi had stocked up on food and water, seeing that it is close to winter. However, she simply  bought a hot meaty meal from the town to give her.

Elsi took the baby and laid her in the crib she had made . Took Lara in her arms and hugged  her with a smile on her face.

"You did good." She whispered, staring into her eyes.

The shock of hearing Elsi speak brought her back to the present, and tears weld up in her eyes again. Elsi simply repositioned herself on the bed and held her and fed her the food she had bought. She, too, took bites to soothe her stomach.

The next day, Elsi took Lara and the baby to town on her carriage pulled by a horse to have them registered under her name. Lara looked at the familiar landscape as she was guided by Elsi.  When she came around after Elsi found her, she realized that she had taken a boat across the sea and two  old cart rides before she had run out of money.

Lara was in the neighboring kingdom, laradale. Farming was the main thing people survived on, and Elsi was a big farmer in the area, though because she  is alone, she lives in a small hut.

Lara smiled, remembering the praise Elsi gave her after she had given birth.  She looked down at the child and sighed. Lara opened the cloth and looked at the child's condition. One she has yet to have seen or heard of. A child born with two futional reproductive organs.

What worried her even more was that Elsi was not surprised or even looked disgusted. She simply told her she did a good job.

Lara sighed and looked at the sky.

"What will happen now."

Elsi simply looked back at her through the small window upfront and looked at the sky with a thoughtful gaze

From the dirt path, you could see the lush full landscape,  farmed lands for miles with trees that reach the sky's. Fruits trees.

People could be seen working their farms and the town coming into view. The largest farm in the area was Elsi's, which is where Lara worked . Thinking back to the days she was found and have been working  she felt safe.

From her past and her family.

Looking back down at the child, Lara whispered.

"What will I name you?"

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First chapter, wow.  I hope we all have fun living a easy going life. Not with trouble but with hope.
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