Two long, terribly weeks passed.......
Crista was in hell on earth. No. Hell would be a better place to be perhaps. Heylel broke her easily within the first few days, leaving her beaten and broken most nights. And when he was not there to make her life hell, his two favorites did it for him. They both took great pleasure in making her life worse after the way she had lashed out against them at first. But they did spread the pain to the other girls as well.
She came to learn much about the other girls she shared her surrounding with. The raven haired girl was, as he had called her, Jacqueline and her friend the red head was Shannon. Both had been with Heylel for years, knowing no other master but him which explained their loyalty even when they were treated just as harsh as she was.
As for the other two girls, they were much like her. The one whom had been riding the horse that first day had been there some time and while she learned to accept and just do what she was told, she was not loyal as the others. She was the brown haired Rebeca whom had come into Heylel's possession over a gambling debt her rich father owed. As far as the outside world knew, she had moved fair away to wed in an arranged marriage to some foreigner. Little did anyone know, she was not that far away.
The last girl, well, perhaps story was the saddest of all. Even worse then her own Crista thought. She was Marie, whom Heylel had quite kidnapped right out of her marriage bed. She and her husband had just been married. They were simple, poor folk with little in the world including family. She would have been a maiden that night. But before they could even consummate the marriage, Heylel, the lord of the land they lived on, came claiming the old rights of the lord. Her husband fought him off and Marie had to watch as Heylel made her a widow before she could even be a wife.
As bad as she had it, Crista still thought of others over herself. When she was bloody and could hardly move, and a bit of food was thrown their way, she tried to get Marie to take some of the little bit that was her own. She feared that Marie had no will to live left within her and Crista could not bear to see the only friendly voice and face in this place leave her. Perhaps it was selfish of her, but she needed Marie to keep herself sane.
The thoughts of Aiden were the only hope she had left. Heylel tried time and time again to put her their love down, but in her heart she knew he had to be looking for her still. At least... she hoped he was. If she didn't have that hope within her... she feared that she would loose her will to go on just as poor Marie had.