Chapter 17 - Chapter Seventeen

The only sound was the shocked gasp that fell from Aurora's lips. The men didn't even look at her, if they had, they might have seen the tears running down her cheeks. This was exactly what she was running from; any time she made contact with someone, it ended in tragedy. she had stayed in with her parents and look how that had ended for them, she had gone to the inn and the old man was harassed, she had begged the farmer to help her and now he lay dead with the soldiers who were merely doing their duty. Though their duty had included helping to capture her, still, they didn't deserve to die, no one did at least not this way.