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[Cat Lyxen]

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****************************"Well Catelyn lass , looks as if you have come back to yer own."

Cat froze. She stared at the man as if he were a ghost. The man chuckled deep in his throat. He put his hand under her chin to raise her startled face to his. He held her face captured, making her look into his eyes. When she tried to move away from him, with his other hand he grabbed her arm. He drew his face towards hers and kissed her lips savagely. Cat tried to pull away from him but he was to strong and only released her when he was satisfied he had her full attention. Cat drew back her hand to slap him but he caught her arm in a fierce grip and she spit at him.

"Bastard!"

" Ah Lass .. you still have a bit of fire about you. I guess yer father dinna beat it out of you after all" he said grinning. " You still wear the marks on your back, dont ya lass? A gift from a father to his child"

He laughed as he walked around the tavern. He stopped and took a bottle of the special liquor out of a basket. Cat finally found her voice again. She wiped the blood from her ravaged lips .

"Where is he? What does he want?"

The man looked at her lazily.
" He is on the ship. And you know damn well what he wants. Fathers dun take to kindly to their flesh and blood running off and leavin them high and dry" He sneered.

Cat walked towards the fireplace ,looking in the flames turning to embers.

"I wont go." she said quietly.

The man looked at her and grinned.

"So, we are going to have a bit of fun are we? I would like nothing better than to have to "make" you go Catelyn."

Cat turned from the fireplace .

" Don't call me that! My name is Cat. I'm NOT goin anywhere with you , you lap dog! Tell him he can run his own tavern , steal his own gold and work his wenches. I'm not goin back, ever. " She said fiercely.

The man walked closer to her . As she backed away he laughed.

" Maybe I will like it that you wont come willingly. I have time and I like to watch you squirm. I've been watching you. You'll work for him you'll come back to the Den and work for your father."

"My father would sell me to the highest bidder . Then come the next day he would have the man killed and take me back along with anythin else the man had."

The man sat on a stool at the bar like he belonged there. He cocked his eyebrows at Cat.

"Aye well thats the way it is with a man and his property. Maybe if you dun smart off to him and try to run away again he wont add any new marks to that lovely skin on yer back."

As he got up from the stool and walked towards Cat they both heard voices coming from outside. The man went to the door used less often and turned before going through it.

"He won't wait long lass. Bad things can happen if he waits to long. I will be seein ya soon, Catelyn." ******************************


Cat sat straight up from her bed . She was shaking and looking around wildly. The nightmare wouldn't have bothered her so much except it wasn't just a nightmare, it was her past. The fires in Yew , the smell of the smoke, it was all sending those memories crashing back. The battle with her father, the pirates attacking and the death of her friend Angus.
She stood up , wrapped a robe around her cold skin and walked onto the balcony. She looked out at the night sky. She could still smell smoke from the rioters fires and hear raised voices in the distance. She had felt secure and safe for so long. This uprising of the towns people was scaring her. She would continue to speak to the rioters and try to calm them. She would help arrest those that would set fire to the town she loved.
She would hope for those secure and safe feelings to return.
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'I'll end with an edit to Ditto's post since she obviously doesn't grasp the man code.......................having your sister entertained by another gentleman gives you clearance to entertain their sister without retribution while taking care of mom leads to a blood fued which can only end in death" Gnarlug