Telltales of the Diary

My attempt at writing a first person story:

Cloaked men, lone hero’s and a lost daughter. Great deeds, large mountains and skies filled with dragons. Death, loss and desperation. The tale I will tell holds all this and more, for the tale I will tell dear, is the tale of a woman, a young girl left to strive on her own, in a very cruel world. The tale I tell you now is of my own tale, of the family I do not remember…

            I remember the screams and the fire, the sound of my mother’s soft voice cooing and soothing. I remember the song she sang as it mixed with the smell of blood. I was very young when she hid me under the cupboard that night. She hid me well wrapped in a blanket and told me not to make a sound.  I heard them take her away as they searched the house for me. The man who found me that night smiled and said I was not there. Dressed in black velvet, he was handsome and I trusting.

            The tale I tell is a sad tale full of misery and betrayal, it’s a tale of nightmares which I relive every night. For I stayed hidden in that cupboard after everyone had gone, I didn’t leave tucked away safely in that blanket. Later that night, when all was quiet, the man in the dark velvet returned to sweep me away. Had I know what was to come next, had I been a little wiser, I would have run out of the cupboard the moment he left. But I was young and foolish, a child of twelve. He brought me into his house calmly I went, fooled by his smile and charm, it was not until too late that I realized my mistake, as he handed me to an older women. “Train her” he said calmly, and so my life of slavery began.

            For four years I served the man who helped take my mother from me, but I knew none of this at the time. Which brings me to where I am now, at a slave market to be sold. For you see, on the fourth year of that dreadful day, on my sixteenth birthday, he thoughts me too old to be his slave. Now I am here, in this market, surrounded by men and women of many ages who await the same fate as myself, to be sold into slavery…

Blurb:

This is the tale of Anastasia, the young women who was taken from her family at twelve and sold at a slave market at sixteen. She is brought to the castle, to be trained as a slave. Scarred from her past, terrorized by demons and her parents screams, she learns to be quick on her feet and use her wits. Her charm earns her the respect of an old warrior in the castle, who promises to help her figure out where she comes from. But as they delve into her past, it quickly catches up with her, and soon she finds herself once again, fearing for her life.