Five days. Would it be better to try and make her escape before then, she wondered, or attempt to slip away from him when they were travelling? There was a good chance hunters would be sent after her if she made a break for it--being further away from the castle when it happened might work in her favor. Then again, there was still the chance that he might decide not to keep her after all, and all her planning would be for naught. She'd need to play her role well, but at the same time she couldn't overdo it. Centuries of "living" meant that vampires were notoriously cunning, and if Lucius was as lauded a trainer as the guard had made him out to be, no doubt he had dealt with tricky slaves before. This would be a challenge, and there was a very good possibility she would fail and die horribly as a result, but that was a risk she was willing to take it if meant leaving this horrible place behind.<br/><br/>At his question, she nodded, face darkening somewhat. "Everyone here gets branded." She lifted her hair away from her neck, turning to show him the right side. Among old, faded bite-marks, just below her right ear, was a small area of raised burn-scar roughly in the shape of the clan's crest, a winged serpent circled by thorns. It could have been easily missed had you not known what to look for and where to look, but to a hunter searching for a runaway slave, it was the sure mark of a renegade. Additionally, below the brand were two small dots seared into her skin by the touch of a hot iron rod long ago. In this clan, as well as several others, all failed escapees or severe rule-breakers were given additional marks to denote their troublemaking nature. Wyn's two marks were from one failed escape attempt (she had nearly reached the eaves of the forest before they caught up to her) and another incident where she had tried to defend another slave being brutalized by an irate vampire for performing some task too slow or clumsily. Against a supernatural being, a malnourished young woman's fists could hardly accomplish anything beyond landing her in a world of hurt, but that hadn't stopped her.