I BURN!

~LEDA’S POV~

The bloodthirsty crowd roars in a symphony of rage and contempt, ensuring that they will not be quietened unless they see one of us reduced to ashes. 

‘There is no escape from it, but how do I succumb to it without seeing Willow for one last time?’ I wonder, but I dare not say it to the attorney, whose merciless gaze gives way to entertaining the possibility of impending doom. 

With the demands of watching us burn on the wooded platform constructed just outside the court, sustaining, my attempt to maintain an aloof stance becomes rather unachievable. 

“You will not go through this alone, Leda,” assures Celie, attempting to familiarise me with her intention to decline Mister Gibbons’s proposal about betraying me for saving herself. 

Regardful of how she……