Grafenburg. Very quickly this time, Margaret had arched off of the bed, and was piercing the air with incessant screaming. With constant gushes an...d one last long cry, she collapsed once more. I withdrew once again, and proceeded to clean up, drinking in the sweet nectar without causing Margaret any more agony. I backed out and stood up. After a moment catching her breath, Margaret tried to sit up, but it appeared her muscles were worn out to the point of failure. I took her hand and. Blocks later I slowed down to ajog because my lungs are burning and there was a stabbing pain in myside. I started to feel like a shameful coward for running out on Maryand Beth. I thought of going back, thought better of that idea and keepgoing, in what I hoped was the right direction. I told myself it was afamily matter, the girls knew what could happen, and except for somenormal testosterone driven wishful thinking, I had done nothing that Ishould have to pay for in pain. I was trying to. He beat me and raped me for two and a half years. He took my ability to have kids and now he took this too. I’ll be damn if he gets my life as well. Using the anger I got up and walked to the stairs and that was where I faltered. I looked at the stairs all the way to the bottom and wonder how this was going to work. Get up them had been a bitch but getting down them was stupid without help and help came just as I realized that. “Need a hand?” I smiled as Mr. Clearwater grabbed my arm and. He stood a few feet from us together with the other Shieldmaidens in training.There were twenty of us, from the richest families in the village. After the last unsuccessful raid on the Vandals, we had lost many men, and our king had decided to increase his warriors by training women. At first, I didn’t want to, but Sigrid and her parents had talked me into it. After my parents died of an illness when I was a child Sigrid’s parents had taken me in.I lunged attacking, coming hard at Sigrid..