The child tried to struggle away from the woman, which resulted in a harsh slap to the face.  "If you don't want to stay and learn our ways, that's fine.  Killing you would be easy enough.  But I don't want to have to do that."<br/><br/>" Oh Sophie," Lilliana sighed.  "Why did you pick now to have a crisis?  Just get rid of her!  She'll only weigh us down."   The young woman picked up the de-boning knife from where she'd taken the bones from the meat she'd been preparing.  "Here."  She huffed kurtly and handed it to her older sister.  The child's eyes filled with fear as she saw the dim light of the day glisten off the blade.