Knowing

Opening

My story begins on a hot sunny day. It's the end of summer the leaves are turning a golden brown. The year is 1120 and the land is beautiful. Grassy hills and open plains as far as the eye can see. I'm 18 years old and I have dark brown hair and brown eyes I'm tall and skinny from lack of eating. I have No family, no money, no where to call home but I have my best friend Charles. Charles is a short blond kid he has blue eyes and he's about 15 years old his parents died to the pledge like mine. they made me swear to protect him. I swore I'd protect him and keep him safe and well fed. I used to go to their bread shop and ask for the scraps of meat and bread. They always gave me all the scraps they had and if I asked Charles mom for the scraps she would always give me a cookie. Me and Charles met in an old back ally where we live now. He was walking down an ally next to his shop. When a bunch of kids were waiting for him to go through. Two kids jumped out of there cover after he walked by them and three kids in the front. They told him to give them his money and cloths or else they'd beat him and kill him. I saw what was happening on my way into his shop and I froze watching him give the money and they still swung and kicked. So I had to help I could just sit by and watch him get beat to bits while I begged his parents for food. So I ran out of the store to help but it was no use we both were getting beaten to bits. His parents saw what happening and ran out to help. By the time they got there the kids ran off they found there son and I beat up pretty bad and so they took me into their house/shop cleaned me up let me stay till I was fully healed and then adopted me into their family. They didn't have much but they believed that all children deserve a chance in life. I lived there for seven years and they really became my real parents...I loved them. After the plague got them Charles and I become inseparable and we always had each other's back. Unfortunately the shop burned down because his parents had the plague so the city burnt it to stop the spread. Didn't help the streets at one point were littered with the sick and dead but that was years ago the city has recovered from those dark days. So again unfortunately for us the only way we ate is buy stealing some wheat and grain to make bread. Well I've gotten into a bad habit of doing this but We've never took more then a handful or two and besides it didn't hurt anyone other then the shop owners. We only stole from the crooked and the corrupted. only from those who stole from the weak and hurt. Well one day I was on my way to take some grain from a food cart. The cart owner was besides the cart yelling something about his fruit. The cart owner at the time scammed the old the young and the widowed the sick the poor anyone he could he's scammed them. So he was my main target on stealing because of his corruption and thievery and hey why not steel from a thief? This was a perfect opportunity to take a large bag of grain so we could feed some of the other homeless families. So Charles pretended to check out his stand and distracting the owner with out it seeming like a distraction. So I crept up behind the cart and there were stacks of grain bags in different sizes. An I found the perfect smaller bag that could feed a few families for a couple of days and the bag was in great condition so it wouldn't rip easily. I grabbed it and slowly crawled back out when I felt a blade on the back of My neck. I heard a deep mans voice say "Get up now" he sounded like he was going to kill me. I felt the blade leave my neck and I was pulled up by the back of my shirt. I was thrown  against a wall and turned to look at my attacker and it's the lead town guard. "Hello" he said with a smirk "It's been awhile since I've caught you stealing, what was your name again...oh that's right it's Sky and I believe this is your third time stealing from the town, you know what that means" he was smiling creepily and I knew what was about to happen.