MARIETTA
The village seemed empty… like how it always did after a bandit attack, except this time it was sort of odd. It seemed empty because I had only seen a couple of women and children but no men. Not even the ones that were around the same age as Crista and I and the girls that lived in the cruck houses on either side of ours were missing too.
I folded my arms across my chest as I continued staring out the window, watching Milan and Ruth play with a couple of children while waiting for Crista to come back from her room. It was actually Daylen’s room but she moved into it after he died and I didn’t follow her to get the necklace because whenever I entered his room, I was always reminded of what I did. “Did bandits attack the village?”
“No,” Alma replied behind me and I glanced over
