My Viking Captor

"No, not my mother please!" I sobbed fear streaming through my body and the numbing feel of uselessness. Tears streamed down my face. "Just take me, do with me as you please just don't hurt her!" I gasped as I struggled to breathe. My mother's brown skin glistened as the flames casted a glow upon her, as tears cascaded down her face. Our hut was behind her engulfed in amber and orange flames. A place I had called home all eighteen years of my life was a place no longer. It seemed in span of hours everything I still had and treasured was disappearing. In all of the chaos, the worst part was that I could do nothing about it. I stared up into the sky the stars seeming more distant the ever, and I murmured, " Just take me. I don't care what you will do to me just leave her. I'll do anything you want, just please don't hurt her." I knew at that moment my fate was finite.