Greek Journal Entry

No Fear of Death

Chapter One: Escape

The sound of running was all I could hear. I was running out of breath. My vision was hazy I saw people behind me falling over. I almost slipped over the muddy ground multiple times. The arrows were falling in flurries every few seconds. I was running beside mom, she looked more worn out than me. I was smaller than most, but I was also really fast. We were almost there. The forest. If we got there, we could get away without arrows flying at us. I looked over to where mom was supposed to be. She wasn’t there. I looked over my shoulder and saw her. Sprawled over the ground with an arrow in her back. I kept running. I couldn’t afford to break down here. I saw what happened to the people behind me. I looked back one last
“Where’s Chaek?” I asked Arthur. “He said he had to do something today and would come back later.” He responded back to me with his usual politeness. “Don’t worry about him Asura, he can take care of himself.” Petra said sternly. I wasn’t really worrying about him either way. “Besides, you said you would take us to the secret pond!” she said loudly. I always enjoyed Petra’s hyperactive attitude and energy. “Yeah Petra. I remember. We can go now.” I said back to her We went to my secret pond. It was actually a pond on the Gale family house grounds. We spent 2 hours there before we came back to the house and slept.

I woke up in the middle of the night. I was sleeping on the stairs and some light hit some face. The door was open. Why was it open? I rubbed my eyes and got up. Petra, Arthur and Chaek weren’t here. Where did they go? I put on my jacket and went outside to look for them. I looked over the hill and saw a horse and carriage riding away from the direction of the house. I decided to follow it since it’s tracks were on the