A slave in the dungeons

Astrid remembers a story her mother told her. Cinderella, made a slave by her evil stepmother before she met a prince and became his princess. The love part is not what remembers Astrid about the story, however. But the fact that the girl was friends with the rats. While Astrid, hopes she won't be here enough to become friendly with the huge one that's been staring rather for the last few minutes.

"Shoo!" She tries to scare him away, but this rat looks like he's seen some stuff.

She gives up. She doesn't even have a window here to see where the sun is. It feels like she's been here for days already.

The rat takes a few steps closer and despite her speech from earlier about being brave, she screams. A guard comes to check on her.

"I see you met Rabbit. Don't look him in the eye and you'll be fine. He hates provocations." The guard says and Astrid looks away from the rat.

"See? He left." The guard laughs and Astrid looks around. The damned creature is truly gone.

"Thank you..." As