"When you where our age you were a thief?" I say after a while of conversation at the table.
"Yes, I was up for execution as you were," Marget says.
It was interesting finding out things that anyone couldn't have guessed happened to the commander of the city. Like how she was a thief when she was sixteen. Or how she was a very rebellious teen. And how disastrous it was for her when I was taken from her. I found out that she and my father saw a man coming through the window that took me. My father took my mother's hand and they looked for me day and night for weeks.
"The man didn't even try and take me?" Joe questions.
"I think because they were looking for a girl," Marget answers spectacle.
Questions came up like: "why didn't you make the guards look for me?"
"Because my father-who was the commander back then-didn't even know I was pregnant. Even though your father and I were married your grandfather didn't approve and didn't let us marry, as I told you before I was a very rebellious person. Even though he didn't approve we got married anyway when I was only nineteen."
Questions continued and finally one question came that Marget knew was coming.
"Who's my father? You talk about him so highly I want to know who he is," I ask.
"It's better if you don't know. You will look and look and not find him. That's why I get drunk, I spent so many mindless hours looking. I just want to forget and that's where the alcohol comes in," Joe replies before Marget can, as he moves his food around with his fork.
"I want to know though."
"He's not in this city. I'll let you go in the morning, it's too late at night you can stay here till the morning. We have a spare room that you can sleep in," she adds and I take the half cleared plates which got a ug out of both. "It's too late to go and travel."
"Fine," I say and hand the plates back and we all finish.
"Don't go," Joe says behind me as I head to the spare room. "To remind you, I got depressed after I came back. It's not worth it Josephine."
"Fine then, but I'm going."
YOU ARE READING
The Masked Girl
Cerita PendekJosephine is a thief, the most wanted criminal in the city. But she's one on the only ones. Because this is in the 23 century.
