Nelia was walking along a corridor looking in every side of the palace, until she reaches the balcony where she founds the person she's looking for. Cassandra was standing at the side and her hands were holding at the parapet.
"Princess Cassandra, I've been looking for you," Nelia told her. "The Queen was worried and orders me to look after you."
Cassandra looks at her with tears in her eyes. "Come here Nelia, look at them."
Nelia stand at the side of Cassandra and look down. They saw the people of Troy singing, dancing and laughing. Foods and drinks were flowing. At the center of the crowd there's a huge wooden horse that was dragged to the city a few hours ago.
"They were rejoicing the victory of Troy, you should be with them my princess. King Priam was expecting you in his buffet table together with the elders of Troy."
"I will not celebrate Nelia, I want to look to my beloved city on its final moments, somehow memorize its beauty and preserve my childhood life in my mind."
"You have too much worries Princess Cassandra, the Greeks are gone. No harm shall fall on Troy."
"Like my father imprisoned me, you doubted my words." Cassandra said as she looks towards Nelia's face.
"King Priam secured you in the chamber out of worries on your health. The king and queen were quite alarmed when you claim that only the death of your brother, Prince Paris and his wife can save Troy. They think that your reasoning was badly shaken by the war."
"I didn't blame my father for this. It is Apollo's love that gifted me to prophesize the future, it is also his lust that curses my tongue so that no one shall believe me."
Cassandra holds her hands on both Nelia's cheeks, brush the side of her hair to the back of her ear, and then slide her hand at side of her chin.
"Look at me in the eye Nelia. You've been my servant since we were young, we've shared sweet childhood memories as friends. But tomorrow everything will be gone, pain and humiliation shall lure in our bodies, many will be slaughtered and everything Trojan people built will become ashes."
"Terrible thoughts my princess, how could you think such things?"
"That wooden monster will eat everything!" Cassandra burst pointing to the horse statue. "It is not an offering to Athena like what Sinon claim it is."
Nelia pitied her princess knowing that her mental condition was getting worse.
"If you don't want to join them perhaps it would be better if you'll take a rest?"
"Take me to Athena's temple instead, I would like her to see my fate," she whisper while wiping the tears in her cheek.
Cassandra silently pray to Athena the whole evening then later both women slept inside the temple. Suddenly Nelia were awakened by a scream somewhere outside the temple. She looked for Cassandra who's still sleeping at the foot of Pallas Athena's statue. She stand up and went outside to find where the noise came from.
Her eyes widened and her mouth open large at the sight. Outside the mounted temple she saw houses, taverns and markets were on fire! Everywhere people were running and screaming! And then she observed that they were chased by armed men, looking further she noticed that the soldiers were Spartans! Troy was under attack by Greeks!
Nelia run hastily to the palace to report to the king. On the way she saw corpses of Trojan men who died unprepared for the assault, some were heavily wounded, some were able to fight back but largely outnumbered by the Greeks.
When she reaches the room of the king, Nelia halted because she saw her father. He holds a sword in his hand but without armor on his body, in his front stands seven Greek soldiers aiming at him, at his back King Priam was hugging his Queen.
"Greedy Greeks, not even man enough to fight a well armed man," her father said in clenched teeth.
The Greeks strike forward and Nelia's father tries to deflect it all but simply impossible. Three metal blades embed in his body and he fall on the ground.
Nelia run towards her father and lifted his head on her arm. Hysterically she cries for him.
With dying breath he told her, "do whatever the Greeks command you my daughter, you must survive. They must not annihilate Trojan blood." After that, life leaves his body.
Seeing this, King Priam get down on his knees and raised his arm on his side then look to the ceiling, "Kill me but please spare my Queen"
His pleadings were useless because right then the Greeks butchered both the King and Queen of Troy.
As sunlight brightens the land, the Greeks gathered all surviving women and children while they looted all the treasures. Nelia was grouped among other women, they sat on the ground with dirt and ash of the city as Greek soldiers guarder around them. Some women's clothes were torn on their bodies because of the harsh treatment which lustily looked by the soldiers. Most of the captives were still sobbing from the grief of losing their love ones.
Suddenly Nelia heard a scream inside Athena's temple. She quickly remembers Princess Cassandra! Several Greek soldiers came outside from the temple's door then formed a circle in front of it. Nelia run again towards them to aid her princess but harshly grabbed by a soldier at the temple. She saw Cassandra cries and scream in fear of being taken by the army as she hugs the feet of Athena's statue outside the temple.