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Alone in a stone shower. Her teacher has one like this, and she knows how to use the technology to control the door's opacity. Right now, the door is black.
She stands under the water, she can still feel his hands on her, but to save her or maybe just as a cowardly act, her mind's shut down. She can't see any way out of this other than numbness. One of the servants took her ring and she can see the grooves in her finger, the familiar weight gone, and she holds her hand against her chest.
Her death has become more than a possiblity but a certainty. She's only being kept alive as a kind of sport, and when they've used her up (and her mind recoils from thinking about that too deeply), they'll kill her. Maybe by then she'll be begging for that mercy.
Asmodean. The premonition Nita had all that time ago is coming true and Kim knows she won't survive. If there's any God out there, any hope, Nita won't feel what's going to happen. 'I destroyed her. She sacrificed her innocence for me and I can't protect her, I can only hurt her and if she'd asked...I would have told her to let me go.'
She stifles a scream as the water hits her back, the raw wound not getting any better, and Kim knows she was Healed but doesn't understand how it still can hurt so much. At this point, she doesn't care, and she closes her eyes, feeling tears slip down her face to join the water, but there's nothing behind them. She takes a breath, pushing her emotions into a corner, her past into a smaller corner of her mind - she doesn't even want the memory of the people she loves to witness whatever might happen.
"Lady Kim, Lord Asmodean is expecting you," Leana's voice can be heard over the water.
"I'm ready," she says and turns off the water.
She stands under the water, she can still feel his hands on her, but to save her or maybe just as a cowardly act, her mind's shut down. She can't see any way out of this other than numbness. One of the servants took her ring and she can see the grooves in her finger, the familiar weight gone, and she holds her hand against her chest.
Her death has become more than a possiblity but a certainty. She's only being kept alive as a kind of sport, and when they've used her up (and her mind recoils from thinking about that too deeply), they'll kill her. Maybe by then she'll be begging for that mercy.
Asmodean. The premonition Nita had all that time ago is coming true and Kim knows she won't survive. If there's any God out there, any hope, Nita won't feel what's going to happen. 'I destroyed her. She sacrificed her innocence for me and I can't protect her, I can only hurt her and if she'd asked...I would have told her to let me go.'
She stifles a scream as the water hits her back, the raw wound not getting any better, and Kim knows she was Healed but doesn't understand how it still can hurt so much. At this point, she doesn't care, and she closes her eyes, feeling tears slip down her face to join the water, but there's nothing behind them. She takes a breath, pushing her emotions into a corner, her past into a smaller corner of her mind - she doesn't even want the memory of the people she loves to witness whatever might happen.
"Lady Kim, Lord Asmodean is expecting you," Leana's voice can be heard over the water.
"I'm ready," she says and turns off the water.