When Brandi heard the sound at her door and sensed that someone had entered her room, it was all that she could do to muster the strength to open her eyes and look in his direction.<br/><br/>He introduced himself as Ethan, the keeper of the village.  Brandi’s heart lightened a tiny bit when she realized that an authority knew what was happening.  But when he started talking about her parent’s fate, Brandi became very much frightened by the man.  Who was eh that he should talk about the brutal murder of her parents as a matter of fate?<br/><br/>As the stranger began to approach her, Brandi tried, ineffectually, to push herself away from him, but all she could manage was to squirm under her covers and make a very pathetic mewling sound that should have been a cry of protest, but in her state, that is all she could manage.<br/>