Marital Law by DW Brown

Author:DW Brown [Brown, DW]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: GenZ Publishing
Published: 2019-05-26T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

“I know what you know, Sidnie. They are a sworn enemy of Providence, have lived out there ever since MOM took over, and are known to kidnap and torture our people,” Sonia said, pointing towards the forest.

“But we do the same to them. We go out every coming-of-age ritual and take one of them from their home and family,” I said, a little too forcefully.

My mother looked at me curiously and said, “You can never repeat a word of this to anyone, Sidnie. Do you understand?”

From her tone, I believed she was getting ready to tell me some of the dark, hidden secrets of Providence, and I grew excited at the thought, making me feel like I was thirteen again. I also wondered if she might finally clue me in on my little surveillance mission she’d sent me on prior to my sixteenth birthday at the Capitol. “I won't say a word.”

Sonia said, “When I was little, around the age of fourteen, my mother confided in me that she seen something while delivering food to MOM's guards at the palace. Shortly after she’d entered through the front gate, she heard a series of loud screams coming from one of the rooms adjacent to the guards' living quarters. Curiosity getting the better of her, my mother ventured over to see if she could glean what was happening.”

“Peering in through one of the dusty windows, she saw a group of men huddled around a large table and what appeared to be a woman with chains binding her arms and leg. She said something about the woman missing her right leg.”

“She went on to say that the woman was fighting frantically to get free, her wild eyes like that of a caged lion. She yanked on her chains to no avail, and then she let out numerous loud screams.”

“This did nothing to stop the men gathered around her from continuing their task. The one closest to the woman's head moved even closer, holding out some sort of bowl in his hands. Two other men grabbed the woman's head on either side of her and held it firmly. Bowl man used his free hand to pry her jaws open and then he upended the bowl. Satisfied its contents were void, they all stepped back and waited.

“Mother said the woman's face changed, maybe her entire body. The woman turned a deep shade of crimson, her eyes rolled back in her head and her body appeared to bulk up, right before her eyes. The woman had been small of frame, but all of a sudden, she looked as if she'd grown twelve inches, and put on thirty pounds of muscle. Her hair began falling to the floor in large clumps, similar to the way recruits got their locks chopped off prior to entering service in MOM's court. But there were no scissors involved in this process.

“When the woman yanked at her chains this time, all four of them snapped like they were mere strips of fabric.

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