Episode 4

Blinded by betrayal, I go straight to the vault and start preparing a bag to leave this place.

"Meg, what's going on?"

"I'm leaving, Tisha. Jason was with Freia."

"But why are you leaving as if you were a thief?"

"This is mine, I got it, and I'm not even taking everything."

"The food doesn't matter, I mean it for you. Besides, if you leave, she'll win, she'll turn this place into crap."

"Come with me, Tisha, I'll protect you."

"I can't do it, but I'll help you with everything."

I take my bag and we go out to the big gates where that bitch was already waiting for me.

"Where do you think you're going after hitting our leader and stealing the valuable food on top of that?"

"Food that I got, if you want yours go get it, although I doubt it, you're good for nothing but opening your legs."

Freia slaps me and I return a blow with my fist, Tisha tries to intervene, but the guards take her away from me. That harpy spits her dirty blood in my face and smiles victoriously.

"You want to leave, fine, do it, but without anything. From now on you are expelled from the pack for assaulting your superior and her partner. You don't have to be strong, intelligence is more valuable. I beat you Megan, now everything that was yours belongs to me."

"You'll regret it, you'll cry tears of blood for your ambition, I swear."

"Now throw her out of here, I hate to see her face and this is an order from the next leader of the pack."

"You're going to regret it, everyone will regret it. At the peak of winter when famine arrives they will see that a pretty face doesn't feed anyone and they will miss my strength."

I see how the doors close leaving me outside, an unknown and terrifying place much more now, but I am not weak and I prefer this a thousand times to having to see Freia strut in front of me with that traitor.

My pack, the people I thought I knew turned their backs on me, my destined partner, the man I've known since childhood abandoned me without even giving me an explanation, my own family was the one who planned it all... Well, I'm alive and that's enough for me.

I start walking among the trees, trying not to be a visible target, adapting to the new environment, since from today this is my new home.

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"What happened outside, what was all that noise Freia?"

"Megan was exiled."

"What?"

"She was stealing food from the vault and someone saw her so she was expelled immediately."

"How is that possible without anyone telling me anything first?"

"She committed more than one crime tonight, she hit you and me without giving us the opportunity to explain that we weren't doing anything wrong and as if that wasn't enough she stole something as valuable as food. She deserved a more severe punishment than the one she was given."

"I'm not the leader yet so hitting me is not a crime and as for you... It doesn't mean anything if she hits you."

"Jason, everyone is already talking about how unstable she was acting lately, the loss of her two parents, my uncles, left her very bad and she was becoming a danger to us."

"Get out of here right now."

"But we didn't finish talking."

"OUT!"

Damn Megan, but now there is no turning back, soon you will be dead at last and I will be able to be happy. Once I get Jason's child, no one will ever see me below again.

In the following days Megan struggled to stay on her feet in her difficult situation, escaping not only from the enemy but also from her own people. One afternoon while wandering with a few improvised weapons and the skin of several animals to keep warm, she found an old woman in the open plains.

"Don't take another step or I'll have to launch the arrow."

"Girl, you're carrying too much extra baggage to be so young and alone."

"How is that you?"

"Sometimes the blind are the ones who see best, dear."

I squeeze my belly feeling that I have been discovered. Yes, on the night of our engagement I not only lost my chastity, but I also conceived Jason's child.

"You are alone and pregnant. What do you plan to do?"

"Keep going I guess, I have no other option."

"What happened to your partner? Did he die in the war?"

"Worse, he turned out not to be the person I thought he was and he exiled me after trading me for my cousin."

"Well, it's better to find out now and not when it's too late, you can come with me if you want."

"Do you have family?"

"We are more alike than you think, we are both alone in this vast world."

I don't know very well why, but she gave me enough confidence to follow her. Maybe because she was someone defenseless before me and in the end I didn't want to be alone, even so I always kept my guard up in case it was a trap. A woman alone cannot survive so many years without any protection or so I thought.

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