Due to the negligence of the capital’s army and the royal family, in providing amenities, resources and security to the cities and towns, outside of the capital’s gigantic walls and gates (Outskirts of the capital), bandits ran amok, robbing, abducting, killing and causing trouble to the people of this cities and towns, even up until now. The capital just left them to fend for themselves. All this was because the people of this cities, towns and villages decided to stop paying the outrageous tributes and taxes demanded by the capital and so this was a form of retaliation by the capital.
Fifteen years ago, Mom (Grace) and Zedd arrived in Benison town. At this time, Senro was just a teeny-weeny baby and Sasha was just a two year old girl. They arrived, when it was deep into the night, at about 11:00pm and this was the time when bandits were very active in their operation.
A pleasant and kind woman, in her late middle age, took pity on this unfortunate strangers, after she discovered they had a baby and a little child with them and they had no place to spend the night in and invited them to her humble abode. This middle aged woman was a widow, with two fully grown daughters and though this family of three didn’t have much, they still provided this strangers with enough food and water to satisfy them and a small, cramped room for them to share and rest from the journey.
The next morning, upon the middle aged woman’s inquiry, Mom and Zedd divulged to the middle aged woman that they came from a very far place and they didn’t actually have anywhere to go to. They were just wanderers, wandering aimlessly from one place to another and they were badly in need of shelter. Without even inquiring about the details of where they originated from or the reason why they had no home, the middle aged woman, out of kindness and generosity, agreed to let them live in her home. That was how Mom and Zedd came to live in the town of Benison.
The middle aged woman and her two daughters, who were aged 26 and 23, were small time farmers and farm produce traders. The two daughters mostly worked in the farm, while the middle aged woman would sell the harvests and farm produce in the bustling main market of Benison town, to make some profit. The middle aged woman’s late husband left the family of three a large land, almost two acres in size, in which he inherited from his father, which they turned into a farm. They didn’t have much money to pay hired hands and so they worked on the farm themselves, only managing to barely cover one acre. Mom and Zedd joined the two daughters in the farm and also did a lot of menial jobs in the town to aid the family financially. Since they both had abnormal, monstrous abilities to begin with, they worked speedily, covering a whole lot of ground. The farm work that a group of ten strong men would have to cover tirelessly in a week’s time, Mom and Zedd would completely finish it in just two days.
Though this surprised and terrified the hell out of the middle aged woman and her daughters, the hard work of Mom and Zedd, caused more money to flow into the purse of the family of three. This led to them affording to purchase one extra acre of land for livestock rearing and production, as they diversified into livestock production and this further helped in improving their finances tremendously.
The arrival and the change of fortune caused by both Mom and Zedd brought joy to the hearts of the middle aged woman and her daughters. She felt lucky that she had showered geniality and generosity onto both of them, instead of heartlessly ignoring their predicament and turning them away. She and her two daughters also loved taking care of baby Senro and little Sasha.
A year quickly passed by peacefully in a flash. The situation of the family turned around like a fairytale. They, who were small time farmers and were just earning merger amounts from their produce, were now making so much money, that they became known and well respected in the town and even the nearby villages close to the town. They purchased an additional three acres to add to the existing three and paid hired hands to aid them in their business. This change of fortune enabled them to procure a bigger, better and more studier house, bulls and oxen for farm work, horses for transportation, better and more expensive clothes and jewelries and capable men to safeguard their goods from bandits.
But later along the line, tragedy struck. A bandit group ambushed this family of three, when they were on their way to the market to sell their goods and unfortunately for them, Mom and Zedd were not with them, as they both were working and monitoring the hired hands in the farm. This bandit group, which numbered up to thirty men, maimed and killed the security men this family of three paid to protect them, robbed them of their goods and abducted the woman and her daughters, dragging them forcefully to the bandits’ hideout.
The news of this terrible incident reached the ears of Mom and Zedd far too late and before the both of them could gather the information needed to track down the bandits’ hideout and come to the rescue of this poor innocent souls, the middle aged woman had vividly watched, as her two daughters were viciously raped, in turns by the bandits and then killed, before she, herself died tragically from extreme sorrow and heartache.
When Mom and Zedd found the dead bodies of the middle aged woman and her daughters, hung on wooden poles, outside of the bandits’ hideout, they spiraled into a fit of uncontrollable rage and in the most horrific way possible, they mutilated, ripped from limb to limb and killed every single bandit underling, not even permitting any single one to escape their purgatorial death. But, they left the bandit leader for last, though they destroyed his leg tendons to impede him from escaping.
After finishing up with the underlings, they tied the bandit leader down with a strong rope and they both took turns, using the guy’s long sword, to brutally detach every single part of his body, beginning from his toe nails, all the way up to his neck. They both devilishly reveled in the deathly wails and screams of the villain, which sounded in their ears like the sonata and chorus of the heavenly angels above. Even when the guy died the moment they reached his abdomen, they didn’t stop till they reached his neck. It was an extremely gory sight to behold.
When they were done with the bandit leader, they took down the lifeless bodies of the middle aged woman and her daughters and silently carried them on their backs, all the way back to their home, without even stopping to rest for a bit. They buried them in the land surrounding their home, with only using their bare hands as tools They both wailed in sorrow and grief, concerning the untimely loss of a woman of boundless kindness and the loss of the woman’s two daughters as well.
(This is an excerpt from my novel; Flames on Ice. I posted this part of the novel here, because It's kind of touching and to me, this is one of my best chapter in the novel. If u like this excerpt, you can check out the full novel. Thanks for taking your time to read this and God bless 😘😘😘😊
