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Hello,
This is my first post and I hope you get hooked because this is only a tiny part of a book that is in progress. I will try to post at least semi daily but there aren't any gaurantees. (I do not have a title for this book yet so if you have a suggestion please tell me.) Enjoy!

After I finished eating my supper I lay down on the straw cot but I could not sleep. Not because the straw was scratchy on my bare arms and face but because I was thinking about what it was like before. I remember the feather stuffed pillow, the kisses, and the smell of my chickens. I remember my family. I had a mother and father, Riyla and Saka my two sisters, and Kern my brother. I felt so fortunate to have a father when most of the men in the village were being drafted into the king's army. Then one day two of the kings soldiers came and took my father. they killed Kern and when Saka tried to run they killed her too. My mother, Riyla and I were taken through cities as slaves for sale. At the fourth city I was bought by a duke to work as a scullery maid. The duchess was very kind to me because she could see that I needed someone to love after what had happened. So she became my second mother for the next two years. In the third year of my servitude she caught small pox. I was constantly beside her. I helped her with everything. I told her stories to pass the time. I was still there when she died, holding her hand. Then the duke sold me again out of fear that I would give the pox to him and his son.