♛ TASK 2 ♛
When the barbarians had attacked Aura she had immediately submitted to their rule knowing that she would be able to avoid less pain than if she didn’t. She had been sent to a part of the kingdom that she had never seen before and instructed to sow crops. When Isolde had suggested to one of the barbarians in charge of them that the soil here wasn’t suitable for growing these types of food she had gotten a beating for her efforts. Her eye was still swollen shut and she had a long cut on her lip but she no longer had the courage to speak to anyone. Isolde wiped a bead of sweat that had begun to trickle down her brow leaving a mark of dirt in its place. The sun continued to beat down on her and her skin which wasn’t used to being outdoors was red and blistered. She leant forward a little from her crouched position on the dirt and pulled out a carrot, if it could even be called that, the plant was so limp and shrivelled that if she was in her own garden in Eden she would have thrown it away.
A barbarian walked past and she instinctively tensed keeping her gaze to the ground, they’d been known to hit the workers for no reason and she hoped that today wouldn’t be her turn. “Keep working” a gruff voice commanded as a sword swung into her line of sight. Isolde nodded her head quickly and crawled on her knees to the next carrot carefully pulling it out of the dirt and throwing it into a pile that was lying nearby. All she wanted was to be able to go home to her beautiful Eden, to see her beautiful garden and all her people whom she loved dearly. It broke her heart that she couldn’t be there for them when they needed her the most. Isolde had been planning an escape for a few days now and she was hoping that it would work and she would be able to finally go home.