Zi'da 4th, 716
It was cold and dark and had begun to snow, the weather was best described as absolutely wretched. Of course the snow wasn't the problem, any who'd lived in Fort Gawyne long enough would be quite accustomed to the cold. What caused problems was the pitch black darkness that spiraled down streets. It wasn't quite night yet, more so late afternoon. But as the weather got colder so did the days end sooner. The dimness of cloud cover was no aid in the need for light either. This is where the problem of the day stemmed from.Ivy raced down streets trying to get away as fast as she could. She'd walked down one wrong street and suddenly she was getting chased by a thug. Ivy couldn't decide what direction to go, it was cold and her feet slipped against the slick ground. She dreaded the thought of what would happen if they caught her considering all her money was left at home. Her breath came out in sharp misty puffs, the moister of frozen by the cold winter air. Dipping down streets she tried to shake her pursuer, she made the fairly foolish choice of dodging down an alley. Ivy quickly took the risk of glancing behind herself only to quickly realize her mistake. Her feet came spiraling out from under her as her body crashed towards the ground. "Ow," came a pained groaned. She looked at her hands to find then skinned, a dribble of red started to seep out of the scraped skin.
she glanced up seeing the figure she'd been running from. A thug approached leering down at her viciously. "Well, well, looks like I finally caught the little mouse. So mousey, where's your money?" He asked. The man was easily twice the size of the platinum blonde. He gabbed her by the wrists dragging her into the air. Ivy was extremely light weight, on the side of unhealthy, so it was an easy feat to pick up the woman.
"I don't have any," she whimpered, tears starting to sting at her blue green eyes. A shade of gray cast over the beauty of the watery blue green orbs making them appear fearful and broken. Panic spiked her heart as the man yanked her off the ground. She winced, the man had a grip like steel that threatened to break her wrists if her arms didn't get yanked out of their sockets first.
"No money? Of course you have money. A noble is supposed to be loaded with cash, so hand it over if you want to keep your life," he snapped more viciously. He started groping around her body looking for whatever coin she had on her. She really had no money with her! Ivy didn't make much money in a season, so she tried to save whatever she could. She especially needed to save considering Cylus was around the corner with the coming of Zi'da. What she had was stashed away in her simple house. She could always go grovel to her family, but she'd more or less lost ties with most of them the day she left to live by herself. There was little that could identify her as a noble, save for the splash of purple and a small pendant made of silver, the family crest stood on it proudly etched in sapphire.
"Guess I'll just have to take this," he said taking formerly mentioned pendant between his fingers. Ivy flinched as tears began to trail down her cheeks.
"No! Please, it's my mother's. It's the only thing precious that I own. Please don't take it," she cried trying to struggle out of grip.
"Stop moving!" The man yelled tugging on her once more. She yelped becoming still and shutting her eyes as tight as she could. It was all a bad dream, it was all just a bad dream. Everything had just been a bad dream and one day she was going to wake up. She'd be a kid again before anything bad happened and she'd have her family again. She would be able to grow up happy, live happy, marry happy, and finally die happy after creating her own happy little family.
After a couple moments passed and she reopened her eyes. Reality pressed heavy against her chest dragging her downwards, like someone had placed a weight within her breast and told her to swim. Everything was still there, everything that happened had still happened. She was doomed, doomed to the reality that she had forced onto herself. Oh, what a foolish child she'd been. In the end all of this was completely and truly her fault.
"Fine then, I won't take your petty little necklace. But you'll still have to give me something if you want to keep your life. And if I can't have money I know exactly what I want," the thug said with a terrible grin. His other hand moved downwards, slowly trailing her side. Obviously it had no intent to stop until it reached the hem of her dress. The motion was torture, slow and drawn out and disgusting. It hurt in a way she couldn't describe, being touched that way. It make her sick like she wanted to throw up. The desire to scratch and wash and burn the area tainted by the unwanted touch consumed her like the flames she wished to press against her tender flesh. Sadly if she tried she'd have to burn her whole body and soul as it was tainted long before this ugly thug had tried to have his way.
After a long, slow, painful span of time the man reached the hem of her dress. The look on his face was like an animal. Truly the man was an animal in the eyes of Ivy, he'd given in to the animistic desires every man and woman held dearly in their heart, waiting to crawl its way out and surface. Many things could cause this disgraceful beast to come out, but sex and war seemed to be the largest.
"Please, no, no no no no. Help!" She cried out her voice raising to a panicked screech as she begged. Her call summoned any that was willing to her side, hoping there was one person in this horrific world that would take pity on the poor broken creature grasped in the jaws of a monster. Ivy could feel her panic spiking more and more as a pain raked her chest. The pain stabbed her, right where her heart was. It was a sharp pain, sharp like the sense of fear that left a bitter taste in the back of her throat. "Please help me!" She cried out one more time as tears started to come out full force.