#rowida

Ethan confessed his feelings to Rowida the first day on the surface, he was terrified, complained of irrational fears from the harsh sun, the strange taste of food in this place, and the lack of people.

On the second day, he cried for hours, pleading with Rowida to take him back to Beimini, but she shook her head slowly and said, “I am sorry little brother.”

She kneeled to hug him, he…

“The boy is getting attached to you,” Mariah said in firm tones, “I urge you to stop doing this to him.”

“How can you ask me such a selfish thing?” Anger bubbled to the surface of the void filling Rowida, “I just acted human around him, nothing less.”

“Yes, but you leave in two days,” Mariah gave Rowida a cold stare, “and you will not be here to witness his pain over your loss.”

“Are you…

Rowida passed the next two days in preparation, she was lectured about the political structure of the world above, from the most recent reports, it was a warlord’s dream come true as it was explained to her.

Women were treated with the same equality and reverence as they did here, but they got through with life doing some important roles in the society.

She was given some parchments to help…

Rowida cried hot tears as she ate some fruits and drank water from the spring she slept beside last night, for three months she had to walk westwards, only stopping when hunger was too much to bear, and sleep was strong to overcome.

They gave her one canteen of water, and a knife, and if not for her survival instinct, she would have died twenty times over.

She couldn’t resist the urge long,…

“Rowida Verdum,” the councilwoman addressed Rowida, who was tied down from all limbs with special cuffs supplied by the purple mages. “Your crimes are unprecedented; you are the worst criminal in the history of this council, we have never seen your kind, not even in the legends of Agartha.”

Rowida just laughed a long throaty laugh as a response.

“You killed three men, and four women in less…