Legacies by Patrick Stewart

Author:Patrick Stewart [Stewart, Patrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2020-06-19T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

Two weeks later, John, the local blacksmith, arrived with the body armour for the apprentices. Cassie had just finished doing the obstacle course. It had been set up by Martha in the rear garden, and it consisted of a bunch of hoops, a large ditch, a pond and a thirty-foot wall to climb over. There was no rope, obviously. But the wall did have bricks protruding out to grip as the apprentices leapt off the ground.

Cassie always tried to jump over the wall in a single go. She hadn’t been able to manage it yet, but she was getting closer.

Having worked up a sweat, Cassie walked towards the veranda and the bottles of water that were sitting on the table. She was still naked, and the sweat dripped down her body. A girl stood by the veranda, leaning against the pillar, she watched Cassie as she approached.

“You’re Cassie, aren’t you? You’re a Legacy,” the girl said.

“That I am,” Cassie huffed, tired.

She picked up a bottle of water, unscrewed the lid and gulped half of it down. The remaining half, she poured it on her head. The water trickled down her sweating body, cooling it down.

“You nearly did it this time,” the girl said.

“Sorry?”

The girl pointed at the wall at the end of the obstacle course. “You nearly reached the top.”

“I’ll do it one day,” Cassie said.

She felt her round breasts hanging loose, nothing to hold them up. She really missed her bras. Running an obstacle naked had its advantages, but it had its disadvantages too. The breasts were a major distraction, constantly bouncing up and down with every step.

“What’s your name?” Cassie asked.

The girl introduced herself as Gloria. She was nineteen years old and had been at the brothel for four years. She’d started young, she said with a nervous giggle. Life there was harsh. The mistress was not kind. Gloria couldn’t see any light at the end of the tunnel, until Martial came in and saved them.

Martial offered every girl the option to leave, but Gloria had nowhere to go. Her parents died in a fire a year before she was kidnapped.

She jumped at the chance to join his army, to fight back against those that did wrong.

“There were a lot of wrong ones in my village,” Gloria said. “There were a lot of wrong ones in this town too, until Master Martial set them straight. They might come back you know… Perry might be dead, but his men, they were bad too. Some of them hurt me…” she said, her voice fading. “But if they come back, we will be ready.”

Gloria had said the word we. Cassie hoped she wasn’t in this town for long. She wanted to head out to where the demons were. Be that the border towns, or even over the mountains in what was formerly known as Scotland, but now fondly referred to as Demon Land.

She said as much to Gloria too.

“Demons?” Gloria frowned. “Like… actual demons?”

Cassie nodded. She told Gloria where she was from.

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