The Lady

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I drift in a haze on the grass, under a cherry tree. I hear animal noises from afar. But then,there is a growl deep and husky.

I snap out of my calm feelings and turn around with fear pricking at my spine. A wolf,no, larger than a wolf is in the shadow of the tree.

His dark fur almost like a shadow among the dark side of the tree seems to whip in the wind. His dark yellow eyes stare into my soul. His eyes aren't of a wolf.

They are human.

I look towards the side when laughter breaks out. A child's laughter. The beast stops growling and falls dead. I am utterly confused with the wolf so I edge down the hill towards the laughter.

What I find is a girl, at least six.

But she looks just like me. A man strides up to her and picks her up off the ground and spins her around in a tight hug. She is happy.

I believe that is her father as her mother walks with a basket and sets a picnic blanket in the soft grass .

But then there is that growl.
I look behind me and scream when I see not one but two of those dark wolves. They ignore me and bound towards the family. As if the where shadows in fast motion black smoke trails behind them.

One jumps on the father, he drops the girl and she cries out of pain and horror. The other attacks the mother. She yells for help and tries to run but fails as she is dragged to the ground.

The girl cries as she sees the wolves take away her parents life. My hands and feet are stiff I cannot run just stand and watch.

The wolf who killed the father forms into a human woman bare of her clothing. The blood drips from her body and teeth.

As the other who killed the mother forms into a man bare and bloody.

The girl screams and backward crawls pleading for safety. But she falls back into a hole in the ground hidden in the grass.
Then the world seems to spin and there is a grand bedroom.

The girl who looks now thirteen sits on the bed. She softly whispers to her kitten. "The sun is so niave. It does not know the Sixteen year old gentleman harasses me innapropriatly."
The kitten muzzles it's head in her leg."The sun doesn't know that I fear he might go further."

Later I watch the sun so niave crawl under the horizon. The girl got restless as dusk approaches for I know that when her head hits that pillow the fight begun.

And he always won in the end.

Carrying her innocence off holding it up in the moonlight kicking and screaming until..finally...
He leaves it and walks away while it is raw and naked shaking on the cold ground.
...until a new dawn emerges with its layers and layers of pinks and yellows.

I scream sitting up right on the bed. I look at my surroundings and see my expensive bedroom.

I hear the door swing open and my head maid looks at me. "Are you alright miss?" She asks in a sweet voice.

I breath hard and nod my head. "You are dismissed miss Marbeline." She shakes her hard and closes the door

I know that dream. It is the memory of my past.
But they weren't wolves that killed my parents. They were highly elite people and the young man who raped me us their oldest son.

I know what I have to do.
What I have been doing.
Vengeance. And I must get higher up on their level than mine.........

To take the lives who took my parents.

Who took mine.