Chapter Five

All through lunch Tina was quiet. If Thomas noticed he didn’t say anything about it, the blonde was thankful for that. Upon returning to her room she picked up the handkerchief, being miserable and complaining about the fucked up dresses and utilities she had forgotten everything about Bette.

The newspaper article had not stated what year Bette had died and she was in the year 1665. So, Bette maybe  still alive but where. Remembering what Kit Porter had told her “You’ve come to save my sister”. She had no idea where she was, how could she possibly be able to save Bette.

Tina had ended up at the window facing the jail house. She noticed, three to four soldiers guarding one lone prisoner. It had to be a prisoner since there were shackles on the person’s feet. The prisoner’s back was to her, clad in pants that rode low on the wide hips and a dirty shirt that had definitely seen better days. The prisoner had long curly black hair that came all the way to the individual’s sculpted waistline.

 A woman.

She watched on as the unidentified woman raised her arms high above her head revealing shackles around her wrist. Wielding in her hands was an axe, with a whoosh she brought down the axe. The woman was chopping wood while the men looked on.

Why was a woman doing a man’s job?

Sensing she was being watched Bette turned around to find a blonde haired woman staring at her from a nearby window.  The blonde was beautiful, even from a short distance her beauty was still radiant. Bette felt such an attraction to the unknown woman; they stared at each other from across the distance. She was still a little too far to see the color of the woman’s eyes but Bette knew they had to be beautiful. It was a connection she’d never experienced before with anyone, not even with the woman that was bestowed to her by her people.

“Get back to work” one of the soldiers yelled at her as he butted her in the side with his gun. She fell to her knees in pain.

Tina couldn’t believe what she was seeing, it was so surreal. Bette was there standing in flesh and blood. Her hair was longer than Tina had guessed and curly adding more to her attraction for Bette. The brunette had managed to get back to her feet, turning her back on Tina once again.