Eve
It all sunk in like a stone in a stream, my pulse hammered against the heavy iron clamps that were connected to those on my neck chains. The air was stale with nothing but misery, defeat and the collective scrutiny of those I now stood before.
My eyes darted around, furtively, looking for a door thar would leaf outside this nightmare but none existed.
Rhea's voice became muted against the the echo of my panic and rising dread. "You are...." Her voice died down in my head, drowned and uncompleted.
>"Rhea?" I called, screaming into the void of my head. I heard a little but not enough. I swallowed, looking down at my feet, and not at the company I had, or the judgemental crowd in front of me.
The sound of a horn ripped through the tentative silence of the execution ground. My heart leapt into my throat, stomach dropping, every hair raising despite the sweltering heat.
