The boy was sitting at one corner of the room. They had told him that he would be sent to the dungeons if he did not listen to them. Ferdinand, his name was, and his sister had told him that he was Prince who was going to be the Crown Prince one day and he needed to remember that.
The people who had taken him away were assassins and they had been dressed in all black. One of them was a woman and even though Ferdinand had encountered a lot of women folk in the castle he had never seen any one so vicious at all. The woman had slapped him when he had started crying out of hunger and cold. She had told him that he was a captive human and if he cried too much then they would cut him up in pieces and then feed on him. The woman had smiled at him and he had screamed again. The men had come and t
