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Aiyla could feel the pain around her wrists where they clamped the irons cuffs.

She guessed it might have been three or four days since she had been captured by the knights. When they boarded the ship, she was on they killed most of the men defending it. They then started shouting and shoving people in an attempt to direct them onto their own vessel. Aiyla had tried to beg a knight to leave them be only to get a hard slap across the face with a mailed hand. That voyage had been rough. Most of the other who were taken with her were women and a few children. Aiyla didn’t spot any men which made her wonder what happened to them.

After the nightmare of a journey, Aiyla found herself at a port. She heard the sounds of shouting in a language that she didn’t understand but quickly recognized as being similar to that spoken by the knights who had captured her.

She watched them, one knight was talking and pointing at them, while another man, this one dressed in what she guest was a more casual outfit held up fingers to form numbers. Soon, the man handed the knight a pouch that jingled with the sound of metal. Aiyla was then dragged to a can and forced on-board. Her hands were bound again with metal cuff and soon she along with a handful of other women soon found themselves being brought somewhere.

The road felt bumpy from being so uneven and full of pot-holes, and a few times the shaking made her feel sick, but soon she was greeted by a rancid smell of sewage. She craned her neck to see what it could be and soon spotted the sight of a large city on the near horizon.

When they entered the city, she noticed that people were staring at. Some had looks on their faces that she believed to be sympathy while others had looks of utter contempt and hatred as they watched the cart.

Soon the cart came to a stop and they were hauled off. The man who had been leading the cart proceeded to chain them onto a pole that was next to an open-aired small building. Aiyla tugged at her chains and found herself firmly “tied-down” as the man began ringing a bell and shouted something to the crowd.