-Break-

  A few months ago

  ti: Molstoria

  Location: The isnd of Flora

  Φ Smokes fills the air, as the fires bze. In front of me lies my home town, my try set abze by the fires of those monsters, and as the fires ravage through the try, all I do is fall to my knees is despair and hopelessness.

  In the bay ear, I hear voices scream, “MARIANA RUN.”

  But my body just stays there staring as my nation burns and as all of the tless flowers aals that usually shine bright turn to nothing but ash.

  This utter shock tiil I see them e through the fires the mohat burnt it to the ground. Iion I get up, turn around and try to run.

  But as I do I feel something around my leg and moments ter a sharp pain pierces through my body, causio release a gut-wreng scream.

  I look at my leg and see a green vih thorns around it, and it traces baonster in the distance.

  Then from the distance I hear, “The yers of stupidity that is within you humans judgement never ceases to surprize me. You sit daze in a situation that means instah, but then when actually faced with the prospect of death you suddenly find the will to live?”

  Looking at him, I say, “Why, why would you do this?”

  “What a funny question to ask. Let me reply with this then; why do you breathe air? Simply because it is the natural order of things, your body was made to do such a thing intrinsically, so it does. And the same for us, we were born to attain all that lies within this world and were given bodies that do that.

  All living things are all forever circumscribed by the will of nature and must live like that. So it is simply the order of things for us the Tuatha Dé Danann to brave this world, and obtain all of the glory within it, as it is the role of you humans to stantly be thrown around by the world and those who tame it.”

  From the ground, I say with tears and a seething rage, “YOU’RE AN EVIL MONSTER!”

  Suddenly the viracts and I am pulled toward him, and when my body reaches him he holds me by the neck. “If obeying the natural order is evil, the me see yhteousrue to its logical clusion.”

  He starts to e then says, “Stop breathing, reject the natural order.”

  His grip is so unbelievably tight that no matter how much I struggle, I am not even able to make his handshake.

  From behind, I hear, “LET MARIANA GO.”

  Turning my head, the best I I see Sofia. Then with a weak breath, I mutter, “Mom?”

  “MARIANA!” Sofia screams.

  After her scream, the mohrows me directly at Sofia, which causes us both to fall to the ground. On the ground I desperately try to breathe to get some air, and as I do I hear the monster say, “Your nd, your people, your futures no longer exist, your lives from this moment will be as servants, you no longer have a reason to live, to breath, yet you do because it is simply an untrolble nature within you. Justice isn’t the opposition of nature, but the acceptance of it.”

  As I regain my breath, I look up at him with a fierce gre, but in that moment I am stared back down by his eyes, eyes that bare two different colours.

  Looking down on me and my mother, he says, “A child and their mother both with idiotically defiant eyes, disgusting.” Suddenly the whip in his hand grows multiple thorny vihen he says, “It looks like you dumb beasts need some discipline.”

  From my bead I jump up with terror, and look at my surroundings, then say, “I am still in that hut.”

  Moving my clothes, I look throughout my body and stare at the tless marks that were left as aftermath from the beastkin as, and as I do the markings left on my body almost drive me to tears.

  But then I quickly wipe them, and I say, “Don’t cry, remember Mom's words, be patient, be strong, be smart, and never accept this life as your role.”

  -Break-

  Charles and Nero, current work schedule;

  Castle building

  Castle building

  Seed harvesting

  Knitting

  Repeat*

  The day

  Location: Far east of the River Lúide

  With my arms, I try to carry the block I was given towards the castle, but as I do I keep dropping it due to its weight. Looking around I say, “If I don’t start getting this done, I will be punished like those people were yesterday.”

  From my side, I hear, “Oh don’t worry about that silly.”

  Jumping away out of fear, I look at the void see it is the two boys who live in my hut with me. The younger one has a bnd expression, almost as if someone moulded a perma mask onto his face, while the older one has a strong smile on his face.

  When I first arrived in the room, I made sure to establish domih the boys, because if I didn’t, they would see me as weak and prey on me. I admittedly might have taken it too far, since all throughout yesterday, the older one was giving me nasty looks.

  But now he is all smiles, which meaher he actually liked getting vomited on, or is up to something, and the fact that the little boy is staring at him as if he is fused is also a sign of danger.

  Holding my bde with my hands c it, I say, “What the hell do you want?”

  Putting up his hands he says, “I mean no harm, I just wao say, that for quota they are measured as a group, so don’t worry about being punished since me and Charles here work rather hard. Also, by the way, my name is Nero.”

  “I didn’t ask for your name!”

  From the distance, I hear a beastkin scream, something in their unique nguage whilst striking the whip in their hand on the floor.

  Upon hearing this I instantly hide the bde I have and try to pick up the rock given to me, but my body hasn’t built up enough strength to let me carry it. This is bad, if I don’t start moving those beastkin are going to start punishing me.

  From my side, the boy called Nero es and takes the rock, and says, “Let me help with that,” And then starts walking ahead.

  Walking beside him, I say, “Why are you doing this?”

  With his big smile pstered over his face, he says, “Insistent it human nature to help someone in need.”

  The smile on his face is so unnecessarily bright that it makes me shiver with a feeling I only call disgust. Still, I have to use whatever I to survive.

  So with a smile, back I say, “Thank you.”

  -Break-

  The day

  Location: írassnd

  As I get whipped by the moving flowers, I get sent bay ass, and then I say, “These flowers are rather annoying, not even a little bit cute.”

  Suddenly in front of me, the flower withers and dies, which causes me to scream, “YOU’RE THAT SENSITITIVE.” Then moments ter I am hit again.

  Getting up, I say, “I got to get this down.”

  From my side, I hear, “You need help.”

  Turning my head, I see the two boys yet again, and Nero's creepy smile is still pasted on his face. I guess I only have one choice, with my best smile I say, “Please help me.”

  Walking forward, he says, “Don’t worry I will show you how it is done.”

  As the floes to strike him, he dodges and removes one of the seeds, then says, “These flowers are rather reactive to their surroundings so be patient and wait for them to move first, and when they do there is only so many patterns they have which you learn.”

  Walking over to me, hands the seed over and says, “If you ever need anything just call for me, I will answer in a heartbeat.”

  With a half smile, I say, “Ok, thank you.”

  Hearing this his smile increases, but throughout this whole exge, Charles just stares at him with an evermore fused expression.

  As they walk away, I look at the flowers and say, “If you o just folloattern to pick out the seeds then this no longer bees a challenge for me.”

  -Break-

  The day

  Location: Fíodóirí house

  Walking into the building behind my roommate, I see I am now in a rge room with a bunch of other kids both girls and boys, but also in the roroups of adult women as well, and seeing the beastkin at the front of the room looking at us, I quickly follow my roommates and sit down.

  After the room is packed to the brim, the beastkin gives on instrus on clothes we are to make, then he says, “Also to those of you who stay in the homend has ended, you are to ignore my instrus, and instead you will all be giving different garments to make due to this skills you learned while underserviow all of you begin.”

  As we all start urns his head, towards me and says, “If you need any help I show you, I am rather skilled at this.”

  With a smile, I say, “No need I am skilled as well.” Immediately I start following the instrus a a good portion of it done.

  Looking back, at him I say, “See I am goo-.” But I stop in the middle of my sentence as I notice he has a panicked expression on his face.

  “Are you ok?”

  Returning to the smiling face, he says, “Of course I am everything is good.” Then nervously he started to knit clothes as well.

  This guy really is a freak.

  -Break-

  The day

  Location: Campsite

  Φ Standio a wall with a bunch of other men and Charles, freezing cold water is thrown at us to our bodies, and while it is, I say, “It seems the pn is w somewhat. Me being nice is making her o me, and if this tinues maybe something special will happen.”

  “Is that why you have been ag like this?”

  “What do you mean, you were there when the pn was being expined.”

  “I was looking up at a bird in the sky.”

  “You’re head really is full of ai-,” Another volley of cold water is thrown at us.

  “Hey, Nero.”

  “What is it, Charles.”

  “What do you mean by something special.”

  “I see you don’t know, let me enlighten you, Charles, when a boy and girl like each other and hug, babies are born.”

  “Really.”

  “Yes, Lillian told me.” Wait but now that I think about it, wasn’t Lillian giggling as she said this?

  “I would like to see that.”

  “Me too, but we have to wait and make her like us a lot by doing hings, though it is too bad we ’t see her today because it seems like the women have other work to do on the first castle days.”

  “But we will see her in the room?”

  “She is extra cautious in the room, so we should just leave her be.”

  “Ok, I see.”

  -Break-

  “Have you ever made babies before?”

  Turning my head, from the floor, I look over towards Charles, who is kneeling beside the line and has just asked a question to the girl. THAT IDIOT!

  Taking the bde out she slices Charles across the check, and says, “Get away from me before I stab you.”

  “It seems like I made you angry, sorry about that I was just curious.”

  Angered she says, “Didn’t your mother teach you any degree of sense.”

  “I have never met her, I have been here my entire life.”

  “Huh, you mean since birth.”

  “Yes, the only person I have to talk to is Nero. So he is like my mom.”

  Looking at me, the girl gives me a nasty look as if she is looking at trash. She is probably thinking how the hell could you not teach this boy on sense?

  Her expression instantly softens as she looks at Charles, and says, “You shouldn’t ask women such questions ok, it isn’t good.”

  “Ok. But you answer my other questions?”

  Pulling Charles over the line, she says, “You ask me whatever you want.”

  “Ok, why is your skin darker than others.”

  “Well, you see-.”

  As Charles and her tio talk I look on with jealousy; YOU TRAITOR!