The invasion of the North - part 19 - Anne

ANNE:

Everything happened very fast. Fire and smoke took over Kristala as quickly as the invading troops. I didn't have time to react. Marco Derderián knocked me out so hard that I fell unconscious. When I woke up, it was already too late. In less than an hour, we had lost the war.

I tried to run away, only dressed in my nightgown. I had to run between soldiers fighting, blood, screams, and fire, but it was useless. My red hair was so distinctive that I was instantly recognizable.

I was seized and taken to the dungeons, now controlled by Lord Huescar himself.

My mother? What had happened to her?

Minutes later she also arrived at the dungeons, she was in her nightgown, chained and escorted by two soldiers from the Marlaga Islands.

"Mother!" I yelled.

"Anne!"

She was thrown in the same cell as me. She fell with a crash to the ground. She looked defeated, crestfallen. She remained there, lying still. She didn't even get up.