018: I'm ready to learn...

Dark Soldiers?

Well that's new. Another twist to the whole crazy fairytale surely.

The woman continued, "The dark soldiers are the most brutal beings in the world - or so we believe. Gathered, trained and raised by the Rogue king - Xavier. The demon himself."

Xavier - a rogue king?

She had never heard about him, had never heard about these dark soldiers.

But she said nothing as Mandy continued, "One moment we were happy, the next, the whole pack was under attack. Our men - brutally killed, women raped, children drowned in the city well and..." The woman shuddered visibly and a tear ran down her cheeks, "My two daughters...goddess bless their spirits - were raped, then burnt alive in my presence and that would have been my fate if..."

Isabella's heart was beating wildly..not just from the story but the look on the woman's face, the pain there..the raw pain and she could only imagine what it must have been like.

"That would have been my fate if the lady didn't arrive then. Although it w