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| Shadows - Katerina's Story | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 28 2014, 10:37 PM (159 Views) | |
| Alexa | Jul 28 2014, 10:37 PM Post #1 |
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(This also might include Alfie and the other Alisees a bit)
Edited by Alexa, Jul 29 2014, 12:23 PM.
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| Alexa | Jul 28 2014, 10:50 PM Post #2 |
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11 BC Katerina sat, aged eleven in this life, on the dusty steps of the school. It was a while's walk away from her own home, but she was waiting for Costa, and they would walk together like usual. Suddenly a huge group of boys stormed out of the building, and Katerina had learnt the hard way to move out the way. She caught Costa by his hair, as he was the last one out. "Sit." She ordered. He did as he was told, and began to unroll a piece of parchment he had spent the day drawing on. "The entire map of Rome according to every book in the school library. Above ground," he turned it over, "and underground." Katerina laughed, smiling brightly. "That's brilliant, Costa. I could kiss you." Costa flushed red, and sat still, clearly waiting for something. "I'm not going to." Kat laughed. "Of course you're not." Costa laughed as well. The pair walked home together, and Kat saw the worry in her father's face as they arrived. "What is it, Papa?" "The taxes. I can't pay. They'll be here for me at sunset." "They're taking you away, Papa?" The girl asked, her eyes wide with fear. "I am afraid so. I want you to run, far and fast, and never come home. I want Costa to look after you. Maria, Nicholas, Anastasia and Christiana are already on their way. They left at noon and headed north. If you run through the night as well, you will catch them in time. Good luck." The rest happened so quickly. Costa and Kat took off running as fast as their legs could carry them, and met the other four after a while. "We can't leave him." Maria said, breaking the silence among them. "I will do whatever it takes." "You'll have to become a whore." Nicholas said coldly. "That's the only way a girl can make money." But Maria held her head high. "If it is the only thing I can do, I will do it for my uncle." "I'll steal. It's easy enough." Kat said suddenly. Anastasia and Christiana nodded. "That sounds better." Sia stated. "Besides, how would a girl like you become a whore? You're the same as the rest." Costa commented darkly. "I'm nothing like the rest!" Sia said, offended, folding her arms. "Yes you are." He insisted. "At least Maria has mystery about her. You are nothing more than a common poor girl. Maria is..mysterious. Darkly alluring. She'll get more business than you three put together!" Sia hit Costa, not to hard, but hard enough to make him stop talking about it. And that night, they planned a great robbery. One that would fail miserably or succeed and become a legend. Edited by Alexa, Jul 29 2014, 05:36 PM.
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| Alexa | Jul 29 2014, 01:39 PM Post #3 |
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11 BC The first robberies in the plan took place the night of the next day. Katerina clutched the map Costa had given her, hoping he was right. And if he wasn't....she knew a few spells. She unlatched the trapdoor above her head into a bedroom. She grabbed an armful of the silks on the bed. She grasped at two silver candlesticks, too, before jumping back through the hidden trapdoor and escaping. Kat ran, where she met Sia and Costa, before the three escaped back up into the street. Between the three, they had quite a lot to sell. All three had stolen silks, which could be used to make dresses if Maria agreed to make them, something she was good at. Maria came up to the stall Nicholas and Costa set up for the five of them, and dropped several silver coins on the counter. "How did you get all this?" Kat asked in awe, staring at the coins. "Let's just say I'm no longer an innocent maiden." Maria laughed nervously, fingering the silks. "Oh Maria! You didn't have to do that!" Sia insisted. "Yes she did." Costa argued, counting the money on the counter. "That's seventeen silver coins, more than we've made today." "If we're going to be great thieves, we need a name." Christiana said distractedly, ending the argument before it began. "Black Cats." Nicholas suggested. "It's bad luck to see one, it's bad luck to get robbed." "Cats make noise." Costa pointed out. "But I can't think of anything else." Kat sighed. "Idiots. Shadows." Maria said triumphantly. "They're normal things to see in the day, but unseen and unheard in the night." "Shadows." Christiana repeated. "I like it." Costa and Nicholas said in unison. "Me too." Kat agreed. Edited by Alexa, Jul 29 2014, 05:36 PM.
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| Alexa | Jul 30 2014, 12:39 AM Post #4 |
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11-12 BC The robberies continued for two weeks, as well as Maria's money on the side. They almost had enough money to pay off the debts now. Kat climbed through another hidden trapdoor into yet another room. But this room was fancier and bigger than the rest. Then she realised. She was in the emperor's palace! She started to grab things as quickly and quietly as she could, but she wasn't quick enough. The Emperor wandered in, and saw her. He called the guards, and they grabbed at her. "Another poor street whore." The Emperor growled. Honestly, she didn't even know his name. "I am not a whore." Kat snapped angrily, and one of the guards struck her. The Emperor just laughed. "Give her to the soldiers, as their whore. She can entertain them." He said cruelly. That was the downfall of this life. The part when the guards and soldiers think it's okay to use her. It was a year before she escaped again. She'd had enough of the Emperor's soldiers thinking it was okay to beat her, and to touch her in ways that she didn't like. It took hours of planning, but she'd created a foolproof way to escape. One of the soldiers came to her cell, and unlocked the door. "Come on whore, I'm getting bored." He laughed as he entered. He began to pull off her clothes, something she was too used to. Then she did something she never thought she would. She kicked the guard hard in the chest, and pulled his sword out. She stabbed at him with one hand, pulling her clothes back on with the other. She ran out of the open cell door, and made it outside the route that she'd studied, avoiding anympossible guards that could be in duty. She found the other five on the town square. "Nice to see you, backstabbers." She growled angrily. "No spells, no help. No nothing!" "We thought you were dead!" Costa tried to explain. But it wasn't enough. "You thought I was dead." Kat mocked. "Well I'm not. And guess what, best friend, I'm angry, and now I've got a sword. I'm not the one who's dead." Her eyes glinted with danger and madness. "Maria! Do something!" Costa shrieked, terrified. Maria muttered a spell and suddenly Kat was gone. She couldn't see the town square anymore. And there wasn't a specific colour. It was just darkness. She opened her eyes, in a new life. |
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