Chapter 46: True Suffering - Lemuel

Centuries of a cursed life now seem like a stroll through flower fields on a clear sunny day when compared to being trapped in a cell while I feel my animai go through a rainbow of painful emotions. His rage, fear, panic, and despair pierce me like splinters, each one embedding itself deeper into my being where I may never be free of them.

Maybe this is just another aspect of my curse. Perhaps Merlos felt I'd become complacent in my suffering and teamed up with Zarseti to inflict a whole new type of pain upon me. Who knows what those Gods do for amusement? Merlos might have noticed I'd become adept at avoiding people and so she thought up a diabolical plan with Zarseti to bind me to someone I could never truly avoid and then use them to shatter my heart and soul into a thousand pieces. I might be losing my mind, but that all seems very likely to me.

If Circe was able to obtain saffordite to hold me here, then that must mean she’s been able to obtain ocean jasper, and if that’s the cas