I was a mere peasant girl who lost my family to the plague. I had nowhere to go. Then she found me. Huddled in the street, shivering from the cold. She had knelt down beside me, took my face in her hands and lifted it up to meet hers. She was disgusted with how dirty I was, but she could see the beauty behind all the dirt and grime. Her carriage came then, and she helped me up into it. That was the last time I spent sleeping on the dirt filled streets.
I could not believe my eyes when we came closer to her abode. It was huge. She was surely one of the wealthiest people around. She had to be. The castle stood looming ahead. It's shadow swallowing everything up. I was excited and scared all at the same time. I had never been inside a place as magnificent as this. Only a shack, if we were lu
