Victim

Victim

            Hello to anyone who is reading this. Today my little village was attacked by a whole group of vandals. I never knew that would happen, I was sure that our village could defend itself from any kind of danger.

 At the moment of the attack I was on the farm gathering supplies in order to live. I heard the village bell ring to signal all of us that an attack is going to happen. Everyone hurried off the field, all my friends, everyone I knew. My job was hard and besides I was on a huge field behind our village so I had no intention of stopping and running back only to hear that they defeated some attackers while we were running back, so I continued to work. I was the only one working and that was a great chance to gather the most and be praised by our emperor. It took some time before I heard the yells of the raiders and my fellow villagers. At first I froze on the spot, I didn’t know what I had to do, I felt like I forgot how to run. I stood on the spot for some time and then finally when I actually started seeing smoke and saw them running towards me I decided to run into the woods.

I didn’t know who were these raiders. Where they Vikings? Where they from another kingdom? If I knew who these men were I could at least somehow figure out where to run. At the end of the forest there was the seashore and at that moment I thought that I could run and hide there for a while until the fighting stops. Suddenly I heard voices from the side of the sea. I stopped and realized that these raiders were actually Vikings, I was paralyzed with the idea that I was completely surrounded by 50 Vikings from both sides. All the stories I heard about them made my legs shake even more. The voices were getting closer to me and soon I started getting dizzy, everything started spinning and I fell to the ground. I lay there for a while thinking that I shouldn’t even try running away because it would still be hopeless. Suddenly I realized that there was a huge tree a couple of meters away from me just standing there ready for me to climb. I was a master of climbing trees when I was little and right now the only thing I hoped for is for those skills to still be in me. The voices of the Vikings were getting louder and louder around me. I hopped on the trunk and started climbing as fast as I could. At that point I realized that I was safe and nothing else could hurt me. I was right, when I got down no-one was around. My village stood silent not so far away and I could hear every little noise and animal in the woods.