The once peaceful Kingdom yesterday was now a ruin of today as bodies of men and women were gathered and heaped at the center of the kingdom to be burnt.

Despite every single woman or man being dead, a particular woman sneaked a girl into a quiet room when she heard the voices of men.

The voices belonged to the warriors of Devontae who were merciless and heartless.

"Shh... Keep calm, we'll leave here safely okay?" The woman encouraged the girl who nodded in response.

Her face was filled with dried tear stains and her dark hair now looked like a nest for birds.

Hailey opened the door slightly and peeped for any sign of threat or any warriors still lurking around but there was none as the voice of the men were now gone.

She went back to the young girl who looked eighteen and lifted her from the ground. "It's clear, it's now time to escape or we would be dead in a few hours," she whispered and opened the door wider for both of them.

Both females were shoeless as they hurried out through the back door that led into the forest path.

When Hailey felt they were far from reach, they started running to only god know where. The only similar thought in their mind was to escape before it would be their head.

The ground was filled with roots and stumps which made it inconvenient for the young girl to run. Hailey bit her lips in pain as she managed to find a less difficult path.

Still running, Hailey would look behind them from time to time for any threat.

They might've gone far in the forest when the young girl tripped over a stone and fell flat face ground.

"Aurelia! Are you alright?" She asked while breathing heavily before lifting the girl up.

Hot tears poured out of her eyes one more time and Hailey felt a stab in her chest. She was Aurelia's caretaker right from when she was a child.

Seeing her hurt and crying also pained her as they had shared good times together.

Hailey helped Aurelia lean against a tree in her sitting position. She raised Aurelia's leg and saw a deep cut in between her toes.

"This is going to hurt," she muttered before tearing the hem of her dress with her hands and teeth.

"I can't keep on Hailey, I'm scared," Aurelia said dryly as she coughed.

"No. We can keep on, we're going to escape from this place. Your parents were brutally killed by those warriors, not to talk of you." Hailey tried to convince the princess.

"My toes hurt badly, I can't run quickly and might delay you. The warrior must've found out of the opened back door and would soon come after us," Aurelia said and bit her lips as Hailey tightened the piece of cloth on her injured toe.

"If they come after us, I swear I would protect you with my life," the woman replied and rubbed the young girls' head.

"Nothing is going to happen to both of us," remarked Aurelia as the thought of losing the last person in her life almost made her faint.

"Let's go." She said to her handmaid and stood up with the support of the tree. "I'll be strong," whispered Aurelia when she saw Hailey calculating eyes on her.

Instead of running, they resigned to walking because of Aurelia's injury so it would not open wider.

Far from the two women was a small entourage of warriors. Their red eyes were signaling hunger and thirst as they stood behind their king.

The Devontae king sat majestically on the pure white stallone as he watched the women head towards him and his crowd unknown to them.

Aurelia stopped limping to catch her breath, her head leaning on Hailey's shoulder as the latter wasn't a tall person.

"We are almost near the next village. I told you we would make it," Hailey smiled at the girl. Her red eyes and wrinkles appeared even clearly.

Aurelia could see the joy in the woman's eyes and she nodded her head. This time, she trusted her handmaid in escaping the claws of the Devontaes.

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