(OOC: just fyi lol dont feel like you have to write as much as i did to respond im not goin to be mad if u only write like a
paragraph lol omg, idc really just have fun with it, this is prolly the longest post ive ever done before anyway i just got really bored -teenie)
The rain fell down steady across london, the heels of the people clicking down the cobblestones as they walked swiftly a mass of
dark umbrellas. The figure of a young woman, hidden beneath a black cloak slipped out of an alley way and immersed herself within the crowd dissappearing
amongst the masses. She walked fast her head down as she sighed softly heading down the sidewalk toward the main road out of town, having nothing to her name
she would be relying on foot to take her far away, she knew not where she was headed but it was miles away fom here. Her mind wandered thinking back over the
last few days and how much her life had changed. She was just as terrified now as she had ever been before. She was running for her life because she knew that
it would not be long now until they sent people after her, she could only leave them frightened for so long and she hoped it was long enough to get away. She
only had her small pack of a few clothing items and personal items she had managed to grab before fleeing she assumed. She pulled the hood over her face more
and headed down the dirt path away from london and heading down across the country side, deep into the woods.
yesterday....
"Jonathan! Go get that little shrew out of bed! Now!! Don't make me get her myself And take her breakfast as well!" cynthia's shrill voice
echoed through the large london home."yes madam" jonathan replied with a sigh. Raye sighed and rolled over in her hard mattress upon the cold floor
in her prison on the 3rd floor. Jonathan's quick steps clicked along the marble floor as he approached the sound of several locks being undone as he opened
her door "Get up and out of bed now the mistress requests your presence downstairs. eat your breakfast and hurry up." he said coldly as he slid a
cold bowl of oatmeal across the floor. "yes jonathan" she said with a sigh as she took the bowl and stood up. There was a knock at the door and as
jonathan opened it a uniform was shoved at him. "Here, get dressed now." he said tossing the ugly catholic uniform at her feet. She sat down the
bowl, it was making her gag trying to eat it anyway. She turned around slipping her thin night gown off as she dressed in her uniform. She had been dressing in
front of jonathan since she was a young girl and it still sent a chill through her each time because she knew he watched every inch of her nude body every
time. "You done yet? Come on hurry up!" he said opening the door as she hurriedly tied her shoes. She hurried out the door in front of him and down
the marble staircase. Cynthia stood in the entrance way staring coldly at her. The look of hatred burned in Raye's bright green eyes as she stared her
down. Cynthia walked up and slapped her hard across the face "How many times have I told you! you will not look directly at me you defiant little
worm!" she said strictly as she grabbed her by the arm and pulled Raye towards the door "Jeremy is waiting outside for you with the car, now you will
mind the nuns today if you want any dinner tonight understood?!" she said before shoving her out the front door into the chest of a large man named
Jeremy, her body guard. He followed her every day to school, making sure she did not try to escape.
He followed Raye into the car before it sped away to her academy downtown london. "I know it's a little early but I just couldn't wait, I found
this in the attic last month when cynthia was away" jeremy said with a smile as he pulled an old dusty picture frame from his jacket and handed it to her
"Happy birthday Raye" he said, "oh jeremy! you know my birthday isnt until tomorrow! thank you I love it!" she said as she stared down at
the picture of a small little red headed baby in the arms of a beautiful redheaded woman and black haired green eyed man, it was her real parents. "it was
with you when you were first brought here, I remember it like it was yesterday Raye, you were so little and they were so horrible to you" he said sighing
"I know jeremy, if it weren't for you, I think I would have gone mad ages ago." she said with a sigh. The car pulled up in front of the school
and he led her inside. The rest of the day was a blur and soon she found herself returning to the dark cold house she called home. She was led inside, endured
more verbal abuse by her adopted mother and was sent to her room without dinner again. She managed to keep the picture hidden in her shirt and was able to keep
it as she was locked back inside her room for the night like so many times before.
That night she could not sleep, she stared at the moonlight that filtered in through the bars on her window thinking to herself, mostly about the things she
always thought of, her parents whom she barely remembered, the strange tattoo upon her small wrist, and most of all, when she would someday escape this prison.
That is what she really desired more than anything. She even kept a small cloak and pack of her few possessions behind her mattress, hidden from view so she
would be ready at a moments notice to flee, jeremy had helped bring them to her. She added the picture to it as well. She heard the clock chime down
stairs,echoing through the large home, it was always strangely quite despite the many servants and such roaming about. The chime meant that it was midnight and
that Raye was officially 18 finally of legal age. She sighed thinking about what it would mean if she really were free, she could start a new life, maybe find
out more information about her parents mysterious deaths. She could only hope that someday she would find her answers. The more she thought about her adoptive
parents, the more angry she became. She loathed the very ground they walked upon, she often dreamed of the day she would stand up to them, the day they would
fear her and let her go. As the rage built up inside her small body, a change began to take hold of her, something triggered in her that she never knew she had
inherited. She was suddenly hit with a wave of pain in the pit of her stomach causing her to cry out as she rolled upon her side. Her body began to shake and
convulse, hair started growing everywhere, large claws and fangs appeared as she screamed at the top of her lungs in pain, her shrill scream echoing through
the entire castle not a soul could have missed it. She blacked out from that point, the last things she heard were the sound of the locks on her door hastily
being undone and cynthia's shrill voice echoing in her mind....
Raye awoke several hours later, passed out in an alleyway behind a dumpster, covered beneath her cloak, her skirt tattered and her shirt torn. She was terrified she had no idea where she was or how she got there. She slowly got to her feet and looking around, it was just before dawn, the sun just starting to come up as the rain drizzled down upon her. She walked forward and stumbled over her pack, lying a few inches away from her. She knelt down and picked it up, looking inside. Everything was there, it was just like she had planned to do from day one but it was all too good to be true. She couldn't really be free she thought, she couldn't even remember how she got there, she wasn't even sure where she was. She slipped her pack upon her back and covered her face with her cloak as she merged into the crowd.....
She wandered down the streets of london, heading out and away from the dismal town. She knew if she had really escaped she would need to flee as fast as her feet could carry her, and she would need to hide very carefully. She really had no one and she had no idea where to go so she simply headed down the path that led out of town in to the south of england.
She was lucky, what had happened had put such a scare into Cynthia and Gordon that it would be a good two weeks before they would began strategizing to find her and recapture her and by that time she would be miles away.
One week later.......
Raye walked down the dirt path through the forest, she had last seen a sign for the town of Elgoreth, she had never heard of it so she did not know it was 200 miles south of london. She sighed, it was starting to get dark so she headed towards the small clearing in the woods to make camp for the night. She walked over to a large tree and slid down underneath it. She pulled her pack from beneath her cloak and pulled out an apple and some bread she had managed to steal from a market place in the last town. She sighed, eating slowly as she glanced up at the rising moon wondering what was to come of her, she could only continue to steal food for so long before getting caught and she was already thin and weary her situation just seemed to get more hopeless by the minute. She brushed her crimson hair from her face as she sat beneath the tree, covering herself with her cloak as she lost herself in her thoughts one more time............
