Worlds Apart by ninja jinx (you can read anyone txt) 📕

fact I knew a part of him was hoping for such a thing to befall everyone.

I watched as they left, the youngest of the women crying and the more mature ones already resigned to their fates. The six foot man walked behind everyone, his eyes eyeing the females through the cage like they were meat put on sale in a butchers shop.

Wishing I was strong enough and wishing that I had more power to do something coiled itself in my heart. Being a female, I understood somewhat the feelings that all of the girls went through as they were being dragged off. But having said this, all I could do for now was follow the instructions to head into an unknown city of Morten, where I had no idea what to expect when I reached it. Just keep going south I thought firmly, implanting that thought firmly into my mind. I couldn’t do anything anyway except follow through with it if I wanted a remote chance of saving Mathew and Ellie.

The sun was beginning to set and I had been working tirelessly on the ropes. Nearly all the men who I had been stuck with had long given up, their eyes lost in their one world, some of them even dead with their heads pitifully buried in the dirt. Twisting and shifting the rope around my wrists till my skin was rubbed raw, I knew I had to hurry up. Night was dangerous, beasts and animals coming out and without my wolf; there was no saying what would happen in this uncharted and unknown territory.

“Come on” I mumbled, “just a little more and then it’ll be off”. I gave another sharp tug on the rope and not a moment later I felt it loosening considerably till it fell limp against my wrists. I had done it and grinning in accomplishment, I let myself bask in the feeling of doing something right for once. Few seconds later I was untying the rope wound around my feet, discarding it to the side in distaste.

Standing up and stretching, I tried to shake the feeling of exhaustion from my bones while glancing around at the detached faces of men.

“I’m free…” I said lamely into the air and it was like a pin could drop and the noise could fill the thick silence in between everyone. No one even spared me a glance, let alone a grunt or movement and I knew with a sickening feeling that they had given up all hope. They would rather die I thought, no longer having any meaning in this world. And yet even knowing this I couldn’t help but stupidly attempt to ask “does anyone need help escaping?” Of course what met me was the bitter taste of being ignored.

A part of me didn’t want to leave. To abandon them, but reasoning told me that I had too if I wanted to survive. I couldn’t very well drag every single person with me to Morten, some of them being twice my size with a larger build. Even with heightened strength, it was still impossible.

“How can you give up?” I asked them in an final attempt to stir up there consciousness and at least get them thinking once again. “Aren’t you going to go and try to save the women who were taken? Why are you giving up so soon into-“

“Those women” a man mumbled into the dirt, his face saddened and stretched with age, like he had had twenty or so extra years added to his own. “Are probably being sold off…no one can ever save them from the market….no one….”

“But still!” I argued, “those women are probably waiting for you to come and save them…”

“The moment a woman is taken, she knows her fate, for that is the fate of captured women”

I was stunned. Even though selling women in my world existed in third world countries, I had always just heard stories, like through a glass, but never witnessed such things first hand. Things like the black market, and slave trade always seemed so distant, and living in my safe bubble of a world, I couldn’t have cared less but a passing thought. My original problems I has when I first came to this world all seemed to pale in comparison to this worlds issues. I had been so blessed with my lifestyle I thought.

“Just let us die” the man continued to say. “For that is the last wish of ours”.

“What kind of last wish is to die?” I asked him in a pleading tone but the man had already shut himself up, seeming to become tired with conversing for so long. His head had lulled to the side again and he seemed to haven taken on a look of content. He had accepted death the moment he had been tied up.

“Is there anyone who wants to be saved?!” It was like talking to a collection of walls built around me and clenching my fists I heard some rustling in the darkened leaves, alarming me greatly. Night had come, the cold air creeping up and wrapping its icy hands around the body, sending goose bumps running up and done ones legs and arms. Knowing I couldn’t stay here any longer, I did one of the hardest things I had to do so far, abandoning people into the clutches of death.

“Goodbye” I whispered and just like I expected no one answered me. Just step away I told myself as I took a single step forward in the direction we had been travelling previously. Every step I took after that and with the increasing amount of distance becoming greater, it got easier to move forward and think about what I was going to do.

First I needed to find some place to rest I thought, looking around and deciding it best for now to camp close to the path but just far enough that I wouldn’t be seen. I didn’t want to be seen, but I didn’t want to enter the forest in fear of the unknown either.

Settling down a little ways into the forest, shrouded in bushes and such but still close enough to see the road, I huddled close to keep the warmth in my body. Naturally I had a high body temperature than humans, but yet still the cold seemed to seep in.

I busied myself with thinking about tomorrow to distract from the weather. I’ll find a village or something I thought, and then I’ll need to find some money to buy my own stuff. Stuff like a horse and blankets and clothes for the cold and hot weather. I can hunt food probably, so then I’ll need to buy a weapon which will allow me to kill. But then I should probably buy a book or something about poisonous food….

There was so much to take into consideration and for the first time I wondered if I was in this way above my head. Can I even do this? I wondered and being alone and isolated made me feel like I was being dragged underneath by my worries with no one to pull me back.  

Suddenly there was a noise, a murmuring from deeper inside the woods. I was startled, not thinking that someone would actually be there. Damn I cursed inside my mind, fear and a sense of alertness creeping in. I wanted to rest so badly I thought as I got into a crouching position and waited in the darkness. The murmuring was getting closer, drawing towards me as if they knew I was there, which couldn’t be.

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