“Godless heathens,” she laughed. She didn’t really know anything about the Saarkaaks. If it weren’t for the near-constant fighting, she would believe them to be only fairy tales told by the elders. The war had started before she was born. Salaris had never even seen a Saarkaak. She remembered ridiculous childhood stories of them being ten feet tall and having two heads, and that they ate Barakaak children for breakfast. Donoon had dissuaded her of that; he insisted their enemy looked just as they did. That they were the same people, simply split by war and religious differences.
The Saarkaaks weren’t her enemy right now. Her own people were against her. And the man leading them certainly wasn’t following the dictates of the goddess. Bara knows how he thought his plan would help them.
Salaris heard footsteps in the distance. She stood up but got dizzy and fell. The footsteps were getting closer now. She used the wall for support as she pulled herself up once again. She didn’t have any more energy to run. She hoped she was far enough away that she could manage to evade them with only a walk.
She turned a corner and stopped suddenly. A dead end. She turned back but they found her. They blocked the only other exist. Salaris couldn’t think of anything else to try. She didn’t struggle as they grabbed her.
One bound her wrists behind her back while another hobbled her legs, giving her just enough length to manage a shuffle back to the temple. Only Donoon’s nook-mate, Koor, looked her in the eye.
For a brief second, Salaris thought he might help her. But instead he looked down and shook his head. He whispered, “Oh, Salaris. Donoon would be so disappointed in you. Why did you have to defy the goddess like that?”
With less concern for her life than Donoon’s reaction when he learned of this, Salaris began to weep.
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