The room was damp and dark. I shuffled around in the cell. Voices sounds just on the other side of the huge hunk of wood keeping me from freedom. Keeping me from the prince. Keeping me from Andrew. Keeping me from my duty.

I wigeled my toes through the holes in my boots. Dried, crispy blood covered every inch of my body. Blinking my eyes stretched the scabs so I recede to keep them closed. Not my best idea.

“Well, well, well. What do we have here,” a familiar voice murmured from the hallway of the dungeon. The door creaked open and my instinct was to trip the enterer. “Uh, uh, uh. Not fooling me,” he said again. I knew who it was.

“Go away Andrew,” I wispered under my breath.

“Oh, Cleo. I’ll go. But you’ll come with me,” he said.

His grip squeezed at the wounds around my wrists. I moaned before he yanked me up and shoved me out of the cell. “Guards, get her to my room, no funny business,” he said.

“Your to scared to take me their yourself I suppose, fair. I do play dirty. We play dirty,” I said. I opened my eyes and was met with a dim candle lit hallway. At the far end was a blood covered wall. I just grinned.

“I’ll go, just must finish some business before I go. Be gone now,” he screeched. The guards shoved me up a small staircase the twisted up the castle. My eyes remained locked on Andrew’s. Just as his remains locked on mine.

When we reached the top of the stairs the guards shoved me into the first door on the right and pinned me into a chair. “Alright boys, let play,” I said. They just stood in front of me and laughed. “Fine. I’ll go first.” I shoved my elbow into the first man’s shoulder and planted my feet far enough apart to stay sturdy in my place.

“Girl. You don’t want to do this,” they shouted in unison.

“Oh yes I do,” I threw my fist into the second man’s face and kicked the first in the gut. I flipped backwards, narrowly missing a sever blow.

“Surrender and the punishments will be less then if you continue,”

“Boys, have some fun. I’m just a girl, aren’t I?” I said.

“No, your as good as dead,” they agreed. I rolled my eyes and threw my fists at them until they crumbled to the floor. I chuckled until the door opened and shocked, melecholy, tortured eyes struck so deeply into mine that I froze in my feet.

“I told you what would happen if you disobeyed me, now he must die,” Andrew cackled as his nice dug into Jake’s throat. I lunged forward and pulled him away wich marked my first mistake.