IT MR HURTS. COMMANDER!!
CH 4'S. WILL EXCHANGE IT

"Hey!!!! What are you doing here, your hands are bleeding, Wake up!! You can't die here in my backyard, the kingdom can be so bad to me!! Wake up!!!" The frail and seedy body shook in rhythm with the hand movements that woke Sophia up. Sophia raised her head and her shoulder net looked at the Old lady with eyes glaring like she wanted to eat it.

"Can I ask for a little food, madam? I'm hurt, I don't have anything" Sophia said.

" Can't!! Get out of you, I've never seen you before in this kingdom, you must be a royal spy across. Get out before anyone thinks ill of me" the wrinkled hand drew Sophia's coarse coat and hand as she looked back and forth as if any royal soldiers were passing by on guard.

"What are you shouting this early in the morning" said the heavy voice of the old man who was still stout, scary, and tall.

"My husband, look there is a looker**g in front of our house, if he dies then we will be haunted by bad luck" a loud voice answered her husband's question.

The old man's netra that had the incision marks was seen scanning Sophia's body, although wrapped in the old man's seedy coat, it knew that behind the dullness there must be a bright body. The dull face was seen to have smooth eyes, red lips and a sharp nose. This certainly caught the attention of the old man.

The old man approached

"Don't relax, what's your name? Where you from? Are you lost? How could you get hurt like this? You have to treat your hands first" said the old man with gentle intonation.

The old woman glared in disbelief

"What did you say? Do you want the disaster to come to our house? if we keep ja**g these little spies, we will be killed by Lord Commander!!" Shouted this old woman.

"She's not a spy I'm sure of that, let's recover the wound first, then we'll talk" her husband said

"I don't want to, don't you think about our fate? Think of your daughter!! He is young! What if he was killed by the Commander?"

"We'll talk later" the old man's great-grandson gave his wife the code.

Sophia could only stare. He would not say a word. The body was too tired just to make a sound.

The frail body was brought into that simple house. He released his toughness on the creaking wooden chair holding his light body weight

The chatty woman then opened Sophia's coat sleeve and rolled up with her shirt. Then start cleaning and treating the wound. The wistful Netra was speechless thinking "how could he change so quickly" Sophia thought

After the treatment was completed, the old woman passed and handed him a plate of food in front of her.

"Hurry up and eat!! I want to talk to my husband"

Sophia's face was shining. He lowered his head to say thank you. His trembling hands took food and bribed himself slowly.

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"What are you planning? No one can hide from the eye of the eagle Commander you know? Even I thought this air was working with her" the hostess asked after approaching her husband

"Why is getting older you're getting stupid? Look at that woman very young, she's the same age as our daughter. Our daughter had predicted that by the time she was 19 years old, she would be taken to the kingdom. We don't know what the emperor did to every young man the commander brought, no one came back you know?"

"Then what do we do with that woman jal**g" said the old woman

"Use your brain well, of course we'll change it, no one knows the face of our daughter before, nor has anyone seen her before other than us, I had planned to kidnap the young lady from the next village to save the bad prophecy against our daughter, but the holy graces of the emperor's ancestors sided with us by sending the young lady directly in front of our house" whispered husband.

"Why haven't I thought of this before? That woman is our guardian angel, how could I have been so bad to the messenger of the ancestors, would we be cursed?" Her wife's great-grandson.

There is a royal routine that once a year, young women will be brought into the kingdom. Not as a concubine but as a slave.

Unlike the young men, the commander came with young men, whenever the emperor ordered him.

The lucky young man, would be selected through a general selection once every few years to be trained as a war soldier.

And the lucky woman, will be chosen for the selection of concubines, and training to be a vassal or personal servant of the royal family.

In contrast to the lowly slaves of the kingdom who were taken and taken away dishonorably.

The hostess went into the house leaving her husband

"If even the Commander-in-Chief doesn't bring it, I can sell it or even rent it to some of my comrades" the old man's scheming thought.

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While enjoying her meal, the young daughter thought she was her age came out of the room. Her net scanned Sophia's body sharply. She envied seeing Sophia's beauty.

"Who are you? why are you here?" hernia.

"I don't know, your parents took me into your house and gave me this meal. Where're they? I want to thank you" Sophia's great-grandchild.

"Yumuuu!!!!!" shouted the young girl

"What are you screaming at, it's still morning, don't disturb the comfort of the kingdom" said the mother.

"This is who mom is, are you planning to take my place?" ask the short-sighted young girl

"What are you talking about, this woman is an angel, she is the messenger of the ruler of the sky and your ancestors to protect you" explained the mother.

"Mother there is nothing like that mother" explained the princess who uses her logic more.

Sophia was silent to witness the quarrel

"Angel? an emissary? this old lady is very strange. But let whatever his thoughts are towards me, at least he let me take shelter and eat in this house" Sophia thought.

"It won't be long, son, 2 more days the commander-in-chief will come. He will take the place of your bad destiny" explained the mother

"Just look if mom spoils her. I'll always bother him" shouted the child, turned to the room and slammed the door.

"Supreme commander? bad destiny? replace it? what's gonna happen? will I replace him? are they going to sell me? what was going to happen" Sophia thought started to get anxious.

"Son, thank you for helping my daughter, I will take care of you until the commander comes to pick you up" the hostess raved that Sophia further scrunched her forehead.

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