THE PAST HAS NO ESCAPE

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She woke up flooded with fear. The sweat burned in her wounds and the dust in her eyes. Snowflakes flew through the crevice of her cell and hit her bare skin. But she couldn't feel anything. Her skin was already cold like it was made out of ice. It had to be in late December or January. And it was completely silent. It was like nobody was around, only a drop of water fell from the ceiling.
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For one moment she felt free again but then she heard the sound of her chains. The smile on her face dissapeared from one to the other moment. But inside her wasn't even a feeling of sadness, more like if she was annoyed of the chain.
She hated this feeling and she knew something about it was wrong.
But then she realized how sick she looked and that already the bones were seen under her skin.
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If she really wanted to survive and get out of here and free her friends, she had to get in better conditions and that meant that she had to start training herself.
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At first it felt difficult for her to practice the normal exercises but slowly, after some days it got better and also her body got back into better conditions.
But there was still not much food and water for her.
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After a long month of hard training, Hegar visited Lis again for a long time. She went back in a cell corner because the hate came over her. Her gaze was dark and her body felt empty. She felt the pure void inside her and only hate was left, hate and the wish to kill him.
The hate swallowed her more and more.
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When he tried to reach her wrist she slapped his hand away. But even if she would use the right techniques to beat him she couldn't win. She was still small and he was like a giant.
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He took her chain, one that was around her neck and pulled her with him.
She felt horrible, just like a slave or something.
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He pushed her into the bright hall, which was filled with snow, which made her even brighter. The view could have been nice for others, but out of this perspective it was everything else.
Her eyes first had to get used to the bright surroundings before she could see more.
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Hallstein sat again infront of the 'weaponwall'.
"You have one year and not longer." Hegar said and pushed Lis towards Hallstein. She fell on the ground that her knees started to bleed.
He left the arena and Lis watched him go with a cold lust for murder.
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Hallstein got up and took a bow and arrow from the wooden wall.
"I think we start with a bow and the arrow because you don't have to know much."
He also gave Lis one, a smaller one, but she still struggle with using him.
"Look at me! I will show you. And tham you will try it. Legs wide, shoulders straight, both eyes open, aim and let go!"
It hit right in the middle and even split the old arrow the second time.
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Lis stood there, just like Hallstein had told her. She knew that if something went wrong, she would be punished with pain later. She aimed and let go. But ... but the arrow hit the ground in front of the target.
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The first one, the second one, the third one, the fourth one and so one. None of them hit the target.
"Shoulders up!" Hallstein shouted.
Lis started trembling violently.
"Breathe. You won't hit the target in this state. Calm down. Breathe in and out, slower and slower and when you breathe out next rime, let the arrow go."
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It really helped what Hallstein told her. She didn't hit the target in the middle like she should but anyway she hit it.
Every day they trained aiming and shooting, and from time to time it felt easier.
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After some weeks of hard training she finally hit the target in the middle. She really hoped it wasn't just luck and it wasn't. She could finally shoot and aim and if course use the bow. She tried it more times and she mostly hit the aim around the middel.
But it was also a painful way. Every time a mistake happened, she was punished. Her body was covered with cuts, scratches, wounds, scars and bruises.
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It burned but she slowly learned to take the pain and ignore it. She knew that this couldn't be the worst so basically she had no other way.
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[Back in her cell]
Lis sat there eating the rest of her bread before it got bad. The chains rubbed against the knuckles and the rust in the wounds burned like fire.
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In the corridors some guards talked unclear. They carried some dead bodies away.
Lis couldn't see much but that what she saw looked terrible. It looked like a terrible slaughter had happened. Some of the bodies were only rags and the blood was dripping on the floor.
She saw body parts, bloody bones, and mangled corpses.
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In her head she pictured the worst.

》What happened?What kind of creature was able to do this?What kind of monster?《