“Thump, thump, thump.”
“Dry weather, beware of fire and candles…”
The night’s quiet was shattered by the night watchman’s calls.
“Kill her! Kill her!”
The crowd’s shouts rang through the sky.
The chaotic burial pit, the endless jeering and shouting, the curses: they kept assaulting her eardrums.
“No, I don’t want to die… Please, let me go… I don’t want to be buried with him…”
“Shh, keep your voice down. Don’t disturb the man below. Behave yourself, and you might suffer a little less.” A man dressed as an officer glared at her with a vicious expression, like a demon from hell. He held a hemp rope in his hand.
“No, don’t…”
“Don’t? Save that for the man down there. If you have anyone to blame, blame your bad luck.”
“No… I don’t want to…” She scrambled to escape the grim, terrifying burial pit, but after only a couple of steps, someone dragged her back and slammed her hard onto the ground.
“Just accept your fate…”
Just as the man was about to strangle her, a strange sound suddenly came from a tomb chamber not far from the burial pit…
