Her toffee brown eyes scan the horizon as her hair is tossed and twisted by the wind behind her. If anyone had seen her at the moment, they would’ve said she was the most beautiful thing they had ever seen. But her gorgeous eyes showed the evidence that they had been crying and her graceful legs ached from the running. What was the beauty running from? What would try to hurt her?

The young woman collapsed onto the ground out of weariness. She was panting from running and still slightly crying. She reminisced what had been going on and was sucked into her mind while she remembered.

People were running madly and the screams of women and children were heard in all directions. The enemy had finally attacked. Juniar and his army had finally brought destruction on her village. Ki Maira (pronounced Kee – May- ra) was trying to comfort her littler siblings while the fight had started, trying to free her mother so she could fight with the men. Her mother was a very strong woman and had trained as a warrior so Ki Maira did not fear for her mother as she had gone into battle. She helped her siblings into the hiding area underneath her house. She was frightened, but she knew she must appear fearless and strong to the little ones for they looked up to her. She shushed them with comforting strokes and reassuring phrases her mother had once said to her and it was just in time too. The army poured into her house and she clapped her hands over the littlest mouths to keep them quiet. She tightened under fear, for she knew her towns defense had failed. Was her mother dead?

She thought all was well until she heard one of the men say something in the Mahriah language. She didn’t understand and screamed when she heard the crackling of fire. Her house was being burned and being made out of thatch and other dried materials, it wouldn’t last long. She attempted to hurry the children out of the house, but they wouldn’t move. She cried desperately to them, but they didn’t flinch. She picked up the nearest one, but he kicked and screamed and twisted so wildly in her arms that he fell to the ground and ran back into the corner with his siblings.

‘No!’ Ki Maira thought, ‘This can’t be happening! Why won’t they move? Why won’t the come out of the house. Wh-‘ and her words were cut off by the falling of one of the floorboards. The floor was collapsing and she wasn’t even out of the house yet!

She screamed as she realized that the children where trapped behind the fallen beam. No! Her family was going to die! No…..

Ki Maira ran out of the shelter and through her house. She ran screaming wildly into the street but stopped when she realized that all the houses were burning. The dirt streets were stained with blood and miscellaneous body parts and armor. She looked around seeing no one else. She was the only one left. If only I could’ve saved them…. It’s all my fault. It’s my fault…. They’re dead…. All of them….. Ki Maira started walking the street looking for other survivors but stopped when she saw all the dead piled on top of the others in the center of the city. That was Juniar’s mark that he had defeated a city. She noticed a particular body on the top. She looked almost peaceful, as if she was merely asleep until Ki Maira noticed that one of the legs was missing and there was blood streaming from her side. The body was that of her mothers. She couldn’t care less about her father. He had always abused her and hurt her emotionally.

She ran to her mother’s body and caressed her mothers red hair and touched her face. Tears streamed down Ki Maira’s face as she looked at her deceased mother. The one person that had cared for her, was there for her, was gone. She made the decision right then and there that she would train herself to be stronger than anything so she could not be taken from her children by death and no one could harm her. She started backing away from her mother and turned to the hills. And ran.

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Krys