The entire town was gathered in front of our city hall around the raised wooden platform which had a long wooden pole, where three ropes hung above each rebel . I looked sideways next to my father, the lieutenant general, searching for the familiar face I know so well, my demon. It was six months ago when I was taken from the shelter of my home. “Mary!” Marie!" I hear my long-time friend, Katherine, come closer to the door. “Katherine, why are you shouting? You need to be quiet, Matt and Joseph are asleep and what are you doing…. She doesn't doesn't answer me, she just frantically puts on the long sleeve of the prairie dress that women are required to wear "Please, you must hurry, I found an injured man in the forest on the way. here." Katherine looks at me frantically as she pulls me out the door, with a worried look over my shoulder I give in to her incessant tugging and run after her into the forest behind my house. Looking around the dense forest , I don't see any injured men, the forest seems devoid of life with its silence, even the birds don't sing. The calm brings a disturbing feeling to my guts. "Katherine?" pity in my eyes, "I'm sorry, but it has to be done." I turn to run, my heart threatening to beat out of my chest, when my soft green eyes meet deep hazel ones before a sharp pain hits. tear my head apart and the world goes black. Slowly, I open my eyes before quickly closing them, groaning at the bright lights above me. My head is pounding, begging for relief: “Why does my head hurt so much? » I frantically try to remember what happened, rubbing my head back when I hit a soft spot on my head with a hiss. “Katherine……… middle of paper…… forms on the ground. I barely feel a rough hand slip into mine, pulling me away from my father's corpse, screams and gunshots fired all around. . Taking a car through the streets, we leave behind everything that kept me captive in the small town. Taking my hand, Daemon snaps me out of my thoughts, "You're free again Mary, I promise I'll never leave you again." I got my wish, I had my freedom, I had my demon and my dreams again. Feeling his rough hand encircle mine, I knew what I had to do. “It’s not over, it’s just the beginning. There are other girls who don't know what freedom tastes like. With Daemon by my side, we will help innocent people taste freedom like me and feel the overwhelming joy I feel now. Holding the Demon's hand like a lifeline watching the mountains pass by and the sky turn red like fire, I feel truly free..