Aneela
They led her out of the room - Ambrose holding the leash ever so tightly, and Nadya mumbling the rules to be followed again and again. Aneela didn’t listen. She was going into battle and the enemy was too sure of their victory that she had to do something and not allow it to affect her in any way.
She tried to focus on the path they were taking, to memorize each and every turn, every insignificant thing that might lead her to her salvation in the future. She still trusted in Damien’s promise but the last weeks had taught her never, ever to put her high hopes and expectations on one person. Her own mother had abandoned her and was doing nothing to come and save her, Aneela was sure of it. So how could she blindly trust a stranger then? The only person she could be sure of was hers
