Laila's resolution

All she knew about death was that it was unforgiving.

Her mother died during childbirth, so she never really had any memories of her, and didn’t think much about her absence. But she was five years old when her father died. He caught some rare disease in the cornfields, and one morning he just didn’t get up from bed. 

“Laila, you should be an obedient girl, listen to your grandma and grandpa, okay?”

At the moment she had not understood he would fall asleep and never wake up again.

Her grandfather had been a knight once, when he was young. He’d survived the continental war, but his leg got severely hurt and Earl Valverde sent him home some meager silver coins. He wasn’t able to find a job afterwards and that was why, after