Annabelle's First Task

[Lord Iezkon]

Day 8

AE - "Today is day eight! Who do we appreciate?! Not Anna, yeah!"

A - "Oh shut up will you? You are more a pain in my neck than those rocks!"

Another day, another rock for the pile on top of her head. She sat down in between the two piles of rocks, the one had seven rocks, the other had three. She then proceeded to sit on the ground, adopt a meditation position and began to lift the seven rocks onto her head. She took a deep breath, she got use to the weight but her neck remained to be in pain. From the corner of her eyes, she saw the other pile and lifted the eighth rock above and placed it at the top.

With the new weight added, she felt her neck hurt more, distracting her and gasped in fright when the rocks fell down. Some would hit her shoulders, her legs and ended on the floor.

A - "Eight seems to be a bad number for you Anna. You won't make it to nine nor ten. That is because you are as pathetic and weak as this stupid task, just leave it already!"

Annabelle sighed and shook her head. "I refuse to stop when I have come so far."

Annabelle would once again lift the eight rocks, placing them one at a time on top of her head. Once all eight were placed, she kept her focus in keeping her rocks in place while reciting the Code. She grinded her teeth from feeling the weight growing, but soon she sighed with relief when she managed to complete the Code without letting the rocks drop. As she lowered each rock onto the ground, she knew that tomorrow and the next day would be harder but she grew excited as she realized that only two days remain.