RUBY

ANDERS

My Zara had been through a lot. She was in so much pain and if I had not come when I did, I may have lost her forever.

I didn't know what to say or what to do to make her feel better. I held her in my arms as she cried. She had lost her family, her status, and most importantly her home. Now I had to give her a new home, I needed to come up with a plan but what was it going to be?

I began to rack my brain for a solution. After thinking for a while, I finally came up with a plan, a dangerous one but the only available option at the moment. I told Zara about it and her eyes widened in fear, not for her life but for mine.

"I don't want you to suffer as I did," she said.

I smiled, "thank you for thinking about what is best for me, Zara but I need you to remember that we are bound together no matter what. I will brave death for a chance to be with you."

"It is too risky," she insisted.

"The hardest thing to find is what is right in front of your eyes," I assured her. "Permit me to ta