Back in the mansion, Julia had installed herself on the luxury bed of her best friend. The maiden brought her some warm honeymilk. At first the maiden had looked a little odd. It wasn't a drink Gwen had. Any smart person already noticed Julia wasn't Gwen, by the way she walked and talked. She kept bringing the excuse that she was very tired and stressed and all the personel around the mansion seemed to accept it.<br/><br/>Gwen had told her very little about why she had to leave. Only that some stupid legend was endangering her life. So this evening when the sun had set, Julia walked to the library of the mansion and took some books she could find about the legend.<br/><br/>The 13th night of the new moon is the night when fortune will shine on those who made a "Gesture" of blood. The richer the person of the blood the higher the riches to be gotten. To spill the blood with a silver dagger and sprinkle the rest on the east wall of ones house would bring all of the victims wealth and good fortune to the house that made the "gesture".<br/><br/>"The richer the person..." Suddenly it hit her. "Wow," she muttered. It made sense why Gwen had left but it was still a big blur why she had installed Julia to play her. Was Gwen deliberatly putting her in danger to get away safe herself? The guards around the house surely was enough to keep the mob at bay. She had nothing to fear. With that thought she fell asleep only to be awakened halfway during the night by breaking glass and a large uproar.<br/><br/>Quickly she jumped out of the bed and tried to think what Gwen would do. She saw the large nightgown, she had taken off earlier, on the chair and walked to it to get it on. When she nearly had it on something broke through the door.<br/>"Don't move Lady Gweneth. We come to protect you." Two humans stood in the door. They were dressed in all red with a horned helmet.<br/>"Who are you?"<br/>"Who we are is of no importance. We are here to keep you safe from the bloodthirsty mobs outside," one of them said and walked towards her.<br/>"The guards can do that just fine," Julia said with a trembling voice. She was terrified and didnt believe a word of what they were saying and she stepped back.<br/>"Your guards have no idea what they are up against, Lady Gweneth."<br/><br/>Julia took another step back and tripped over something. She fell on the ground and immediately the two man were at her.<br/>"What is this? The powerful Lady Gweneth of Talahentry, afraid?"<br/>"I sense a trick. Check the birthmark," the man who said this was clearly an elderly man. Julia couldn't see him but his voice gave it away.<br/>The other man took a dagger and slit through the nightgown and removed it, leaving Julia in her underwear on the floor. Both men gasped as her belly got revealed.<br/>"Lady Gweneth has a birthmark left of her bellybutton. You have not. Where is Lady Gweneth!?" The old man spoke again but Julia was too terrified to speak.<br/>He slapped her in the face and took her by the throat.<br/>"Where is Lady Gweneth? I will not ask again polite so you had better answer me now missy. We have no intentions to kill Lady Gweneth but you, I would not have problems killing you."<br/><br/>All Julia could bring out was some squeeking as the man held her by the throat. When he finally let her go she regained herself.<br/>"If I tell you where she is, you will kill me and go for her. I will not tell you anythingyou freaks."<br/>This time one man punched her in the stomach and the other man lifted her in the air by her throat.<br/>"The Cult of the Ruby Dawn is not to be trifled with, wretch. You Lady Gweneth owes us something and we thought this would be a good time for her to repay."<br/><br/>Julia was choking and she wouldn't last much longer.<br/><em>Gwen betrayed you Julia, she left you here when she knew the dangers. She was sacrificing your life to safe her own. This is not worth dying for.</em><br/>Thoughts were running through her mind and finally as she was on the edge of crossing over, with the last power she had she cackled something.<br/><br/>The man let go of her and she fell to the floor hard, gasping for air.<br/>"She.. she told me she had to leave.. for 13 days," she said, still having difficulties breathing. "I don't know where she is going but she took her maid with her."<br/>"See now. That was not hard was it," the old man said calm, "where did she go to?"<br/>Julia tried to remember and just as the man wanted to hit her again she yelled out. "Tfarc! She went to Tfarc."<br/>in stead of a hit, the old man gently patted her on the cheeks.<br/>"Good girl. You will stay here and pretend to be Lady Gweneth. It will fool the simpletons. Do not try to betray us missy. Next time we WILL kill you and we promise it will not be a nice dead."<br/><br/>The two men walked off through what seemed to be a magic portal, leaving Julia on the floor, crying. Minutes later the guards came, closely followed by a handful of servants who immediately took care of her.<br/>