I AM A CONSORT!?

New body, new memories

I'm lying here with nothing but darkness. I hadn't lived my life to the fullest. Why did this happen to me? So many thoughts came to my head as the darkness engulfs me. Just then I was woken by two painful whips to my back. What is this? I can barely get my eyes to open. I can hear the sound of a whip slicing through the air before feeling pain across my back. 24, then another hit 25, my eyes burst open and I am met with a crowd of people staring at me some are in tears and others are screaming in anger. I look around to see my hands are bound to a pole and I am kneeling. I could taste the iron in my mouth. The taste of blood. It same taste I had when I laid there dying. Then it clicks where am I?

I look around to see people dressed in formal clothes. Clothes not of this era. I hear a gasp as another said "she is still alive". What am I doing here? I kept looking around and there is an older man with a whip in his hand staring at me with so much hatred. 

"So your still alive, the Gods must be looking down on you today. You are pathetic just like your mother. You dishonor this family and so I disown you as my daughter. You are nothing but filth." He then shouted to the crowd. "Treat her as nothing but filth because that is what she is nothing." 

The words stung just as the pain from the wounds in my back began to set in. The man began to walk away with what I believe to be his wife and daughters. The crowd started to disperse and I found myself alone tied to a pole. The heat from the sun's dryness to my mouth. 

"Where am I," I thought to myself? Actually "What year am I" another thought flashed before me. One second I was running from my cheating boyfriend and best friend then hear tire screeching and big bright light. I gasped as I figured it out. "I died" so how is it that I am here. Why is it that I didn't just go to heaven? Why am I reborn in the past and not in the future. Am I just a toy to the Gods to play with? Just then a flash of memories that are not mine came to my head. 

"Momma look at this beautiful butterfly look how high it goes!"  "Pappa and Momma love me very much?" "Yes my beautiful daughter, your mother and I love you very much." "Yes my child but don't touch for this butterfly holds life on it so that flowers can spread and grow another place." Yes, momma, your so wise!" "Momma are you sick?" "Yes my child momma is sick, but momma will always be there for you even if momma isn't around anymore." "No momma please don't go please momma!" Stop crying child, your mother is dead and will never return!" " Child, this is your new mother she is pregnant with two children. You need to move to the further room so you don't disturb your mother" "Yes pappa!". "Don't come near my babies you filthy creature" "You are not our sister you are more like a maid" "Yes a maid, now go get us our lunches, maid" "Ouch, Mother Father she tripped me, now how am I supposed to look to the prince". "But I didn't I didn't do it please believe me" "Why would we believe a filthy person like you a motherless child that nobody wants? "25 slashes for injuring my daughter days before she meets the Prince."

What was that? Such a tragic life this person lived. This family had also turned their back on this person and I guess these whips and from the looks of all the bruising, she has been beaten before and starved. She is weak and so that is the reason she died. Such a horrible way to go. Our fates are the same. We died broken-hearted. So now I get to live two sad life looks like my fate has already been set in stone for me. I have been here for two days. These people just walk by as if nothing has happened to me. In my past life, a person gets hurt they automatically help them out. Yet here these people are scared to even look my way. The day is so hot yet the night is so cold. I can smell myself I haven't bathed in days. 

"Miss here has come water please forgive me for not coming sooner. Finding time to not get caught is hard. Yet everyone is preparing for the Prince coming. Forgive me, child, Your mother was well respected but with the hard times' people lost sight of who you are because of your father." I drank from her ladle that was filled with cold water. I gulped it down and drank more. "Child I must go. Just know you are not alone in this town. Some people still remember your mother and who you are." she said one more time before disappearing into the darkness. I didn't even speak I couldn't even speak if I wanted to. It was hard enough to just swallow the cold water let alone speak. Tears filled my eyes and once again I fell asleep from the pain of my untreated wounds. 

I am woken up by the sounds of rope tearing and tugging at my arms. My body drops hard as I couldn't even find the will to hold it up. "take her to get washed up and treat her wounds. Get her dressed and fed her. The Prince will be here any day now. We need to make sure that we have no issues to deal with." I hear my father speak words. Has he taken pity on me and wants me to be his family again. "Yes, master," says the four servant girls as they pick me up and help me walk my way to the treatment center. 

"You are very lucky miss, the master is taking care of you even after you disappointed the family and making such a fuss," one of the servants said as they drag me into the servant orders, and dressed me, and place me into their bath that smelt of flowers and infused with medicine. " Master wants you fully taken care of. He has plans for you and he wants you to look your best. Ain't you so lucky?" I could hear the sarcasm coming from her mouth. Yet when placed in the bathtub the stinging pain from my back starts to hurt then starts to feel so much better. Another servant began to wash me. They didn't go easy they were rough and when it came to my back they cleaned my slashes and even treated them. I knew that I was dirty because the once clear water now looked dirty. Just then another servant untied my hair and as my hair fell the shortness began to unravel showing that my hair was indeed very long. She began to wash it and then after rising off. They brushed my hair and styled it. I was given new clothes I was given a traditional Japanese dress... Why was I getting so much good treatment for someone who was just disowned last night? 

Once the servants were done they take a step back to look at their art of work. After awing at how such a good job they did. I was then pushed into a room. Waiting to find out what fate has in store for me today. "Well well look at her sister, look at our new addition servant girl." "Yes sister, they did a really good job on removing the filth from her." I looked up as I watch the two sisters walk in and look me up and down. "You are gonna serve us till we die". I couldn't understand why the Gods hated me so. even with me dying I am still gonna have to live this horrible life. "Good morning, how may I be of service to you today," I said as I began to fill with anger.