There are a few or maybe more things missing from my story which I cannot remember no matter my efforts. All I remember is that the old lady and the man who was driving the cart met a medicine man as we stopped in a village. They talked to him and the old lady then in a few minutes after the medicine man left gave me a potion to drink. She told me it was something to keep me strong on the journey as I looked quite weak. It tasted like black cherries. She told me to keep drinking, slowly, until I finished it all. I know afterwards I watched to see where we were going and think I saw one of those doctors with a beak I had heard of from our villagers' stories. The village we were passing through was looking deserted.
Then I remember a wide gap like a black hole. Absolutely nothing. Until the moment the old lady was slapping me to wake up and I was lying on a rich looking bed in a somptuous castle room, fully dressed. I was wearing the dress and necklace I was trying I don't remember how long ago at my family's house.
I had no choice but to do as I was told. I got this idea in my mind as I realized I had nowhere to go.
I was then accompanied by another lady, I couldn't tell her age, downstairs and into a beautiful rose garden. She whispered to me that I should do my best to seduce the man whom I was going to meet soon if I wished to live.
That was a strange warning and threat for someone like me who had gaps who knows how large in her memories due to unknown potions. I was wondering who wanted to obtain what, about the interests behind bringing me here to seduce someone to do their game. And would my family win anything or were they also blackmailed and threatened?
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Amour de Loin
FantasiA romantic love story from the time of the Middle Ages. At the same time, a story of forbidden love that can take place anytime... From the time of arranged marriages, when daughters were married for protecting the family fortune or for other reason...
