Veronica had managed to cross the cliff and she did this with a rope. When she had landed on the other side of the cliff she got down and headed to another cliff and when she saw this next one she nearly dropped dead. This wasn't what she bargained for; did she come into this strange places to walk over cliffs? she wondered before she sighed heavily and then made up her that since she already arrived the place she had to make up her mind to get to the root of her mission.
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The next day in the morning Charles who obviously did not sleep woke up and saw that the slave lady who had been given to him the night before and whom he had rejected was actually lying on the ground. He pitied her. After he had dressed up he walked up to her where she was laying on the ground and shook her gently. She opened her eyes and seeing him sat up.
"Is it morning already?" she asked and he nodded.
"It is morning already. You should leave now" he said. She stood up and scrubbed her eyes very well before she stared at him from head to toe and then sighed. "You are going already to your death?" she asked. Charles did not say a word but after a while he felt if he was actually going to die it would be good to be good to someone, probably the only person that truly cared. He stared at her for a while before he nodded and held her by the hand, "You should yo back to your parents"
"I do not have any parents" she said and he pitied her instantly. "Do slaves have parents? If slaves had parents then they shouldn't be refered to as slaves" she smiled at her own words but he felt she was pitiful. He smiled back at her before he refused his hands from hers and we he walked towards the door he said, "Tell me your name atleast so that if I am going to die I will remember it as the name of the person, the name of someone who stood by me. I will so much elated"
"My name is Chichi" she said and he smiled again, although she knew he smiled only because he wanted her to feel good about herself.
That same day Chichi on leaving the tent met the wife of the leader of that land and when she knelt to greet her she stared right into her eyes, having forced her to look up at her face and then asked, "How is he like?"
"My mistress, you mean the man that is to face Goro?" asked Chichi.
"Who else could I be asking you about if not him; was he not the person you had been with yesterday night?" asked the woman.
"Yes, he is the one but Ma, he refuses to touch me but I insisted to stay with him" she confessed.
"He did what? You are a useless slave and that is why he did not find you attractive enough" the woman shrugged before she tried to hit her but then her husband, the leader of the people of the land was coming towards them from their back and he said, "You want to kill the girl?" She turned and saw it was her husband.
"I am so sorry my husband but she deserves to die does she not?" she said and asked at the same time.
"The only person who deserves to die is no one else but the man called Charles. Since he has chosen to die at the hand of our warrior, our warlord Goro we will make the platform on which he is to die on available for him. It means you should focus on this day, this important day of our lives, a day we end up making people see us for who we are" When he had said this his wife smiled and gave him a peck at the cheek. Few minutes later Charles who was heading towards the arena could see that Goro the giant was already standing there and swinging his large sword to the admiration of the people of the land. Charles did not know how he was able to come to this but one thing was sure; he was going to fight this battle with every strength and tactics that he knew.
Shortly and when everyone had seated the leader of the land stood and said, "I am elated and yes, since we have always been seen as cowards by the Chief of our neighboring land, the Chief that dared marry my own niece, Kepa without my consent we are now hereby going to use as an example a foreigner who thinks he has what it takes to mock us. We will use him to send a message to all those who would think us weak and unable" He looked about him before he then stopped for a second and said to Goro, "Goro, son of Goro, you have taken thousands of life and yes, with you this land has enjoyed respect and honor from neighboring villages. We can't afford to have you miss this opportunity to send a message to the people across the sea, the people that claim to be more advanced in knowledge than the forest people. We need to remind them that with their driving object and their firing objects we can still defeat them and killing this stranger in our midst, this stranger that has declared for war and even insulted you in the process. You need to wipe away our shame and restore our dignity" When he had said this he turned to Charles and asked him, "How prepared are you?"
"If I said what would you do with it?" Charles asked back and this annoyed the leader even the more and he shouted to Goro, "Don't spare this fool, cut off his head and do that fast!!!"