Descend

Chapter 4

I soon as I saw the hand print I had to leave, there was no doubt that the handprint was mine, I was there last night with the tree. I had to leave before someone connected the dots no one knew what it meant but I wasn't sticking around to find out. I rounded the conner to reach the stables but before I could make another step the princess was there looking whiter than a sheep. I stopped in my tracks as the princess notice me she had a nervous look on her face as she approached me. 

"Would you like to come with me to visit a village I go every Monday to help with the poor." 

A small smile came on her face I just nodded, this would work I could slip away when she wouldn't notice and head back home, I followed behind and we mounted two horse with her guards behind us. It would be hard escaping from her guards but there main focus would be on the princess so it shouldn't be to hard.

We entered the city and the colours and people where vibrate everyone was  laughing and smiling, busy with there day it was load like any big city should be although it wasn't like the city in London no skyscrapers but big stone building and glass houses. We moved further out of the city and headed into the outskirts of the city things started to change drastically the laughing and smiling was now but an echo in the background. The buildings looked dated and old and the smells weren't great ether there were still some people walking around although less unkept and looked over worked, they minded there any business. Two big gates came into view and we moved towards them, I was very confused I thought we were seeing the poor instead it looked like we were leaving the poor behind, one of the guards shouted up to the guards on the gates to open up and the gates soon started to open. 

A big mass of forest was on over side of the door as we moved past the gates we headed into the forest where in the distances I could hear baby's crying, coughing and quite talk of people. As we moved further in a small village came into a view, people where in make shift houses, sleeping in bad conditions my breath caught shocked at the state of people as soon as they saw the princess they came running over touching her she gave them bread and got of her horse and started talking to some of the people she obviously been here before. 

"You highness who are these people?" 

I asked as she gave a pieces of bread a little boy his small figures reach for it, he was so skinny and so small, how could they live like this? 

"They are the people of Elirath after the war the people have been banned from any city or kingdom they are outcast they have no land, no kingdom, no home."

People gave me curious stares but there impending hunger stopped them from inquiring, the princess gave me some bread and I held it in my hands not sure what to do an old lady with white long hair came up to me she was dirty but many wrinkles from hard work and laughing from the past, she looked tired they all looked tired. She stared at me the memories of the past where there in her eyes I held out the bread and she took it but before she left and she grabbed my arms and leaned in. 

"The people wait, you can never break a blood tie" 

She whispered I looked at her confused but before I could ask what she meant, an arrow struck her in the heart and she fell to her knees, her eyes open but vacant I fell with her holding her in my arms my mind in haze she was died I knew that but it happened so fast I couldn't grasp that she was dead. I looked up to see the Prince stood there with an bow and arrow I stood up and stared him in the eyes. 

Everyone was quite to scared to move or scream a hot fire grabbed hold of my heart and ice froze it over a sense of anger coursed through my veins making me feel invisible, the prince held no emotion but I did't expect too see anything there, a light wind blew my hair to the side my hands tighten but he still stood there unmoving not a look of regret for killing the old lady nothing but a dark look that I new all to well.