“Wa…ta…” Sara whispered again, her mind swinging from consciousness to unconsciousness, she had barely any recollection of what happened to her, just scary fragments that couldn’t be true, she didn’t know why was she feeling that horrible pain and dryness in her throat, all she knew was she needed water, badly.
She tried to open her eyes, but her eyelids felt so heavy, she tried to open them several times but it was useless not to mention painful, and the dull pain in her face was slowly getting stronger, her shoulders felt as if they were about to split and have her arms ruptured from the rest of her body, her wrists were pressed against something cold and painful.
That wasn’t what bothered her the most though, Sara thought, it was instead the way she felt her entire body being pulled down as if the gravity had intensified, as if she was falling down but not hitting any bottom.
“Wat…er” Sara mumbled
“Comfortable, My fair lady?” Eren asked in the calmest tone while looking straight at the girl’s teary eyes, as if he didn’t just break most of her bones then whipped her with metal whips, ones that caused her skin to bust open with it lashes.Sara couldn’t even scream anymore, she gave up screaming after the first few whips, not only she didn’t have any strength left in her to scream, not only her throat was too painful to make such high noises, but her screams seemed to satisfy the monster in front of her, it seemed to make him more cruel and thirsty for her pain, the louder she screamed the harsher his torture became.Instead of screaming, Sara decided to hold her breath with each hit, not that it made things easier, in fact, each time she felt the whip make contact with her skin she thought it was fire initiated on that spot then spread all over body, her lungs would burn as air escaped them, only to be stuck in her throat, each
“What have you done to her?” Geraldine flinched and took few steps back, terrified by the way the shadows lord was looking at her while radiating with that terrifying aura of his.It was uncommon, rare even, to see Eren burst out like this, he was known to be a cold hearted person whose every move and word were planned, it was one of the things that lead him to be the lord of the shadows empire without him having any heritage and claims over the lordship position, the shadow lord was not only strong but also smart, sharp, and very efficient when it came to controlling his barely existing emotions.However, he was seething with anger as he stood in the cell in front of the unconscious hybrid, his eyes completely red and black, his fury palpable in the air and his shadows danced around the dark cell like hidden wolves, his fists clenched tightly to the point where his veins were visible.“Answer me!” Geraldine gasped and took a jump back, o
“The hybrid had fallen into the hands of the demons!” Henry raised his eyebrow at his raging brother sitting across the desk, the second prince, who was a manly version of his twin, Nara, was trembling with anger, the young king wanted to ask his brother of how he knew about such news, as he himself only learned from the demon they captured, but the prince barely gave him any chance to as he kept on raging about the matter.“She was right here, and she slipped away!”“We didn’t know it was her at the time, Nicholas.” Henry sighed, tired of his brother talking over and over about the matter, the girl he met that night was indeed unique but he never thought she was his half-sister, nor the hybrid the demons were after, no wonder he felt that close to her.There were no doubts left that the half-sister they never knew was the hybrid the demons wer
Sara opened her eyes slowly, the heavy eyelids not helping her at all, but on the good side there was barely any light to adjust to, just a fading orange flame somewhere in the place she was in casting a faint light and creating dancing shadows.Before she could even draw her first conscious breath, Sara was yet again attacked by the memories of all the things that happened to her in the last days, she froze, not daring to even breath, too afraid it would alert the monsters.The lump that gathered in her eyes was painful, heavy, and big. However, she didn’t dare to swallow it, what if the demoness was still there? Waiting for her to wake up just to torture her into unconsciousness again?Sara, being her father’s precious daughter, grew up without receiving a single hit in her life, her father was the kind to use emotional blackmailing against her when he wanted to punish her, while the priests never dared to raise a hand on her, not even in that time
“Fine!” Eren sighed tiredly when Sara refused to move, “But don’t think for a second that you are fooling anyone! I know you are awake.”Eren stared at the girl lying in his bed, he had so many things on his plate, such as receiving and discussing with the guests from the other empires and preparing for the expedition toward the center, however, for days and nights he had sat next to the bed, watching over the unconscious girl.For the first time in his life, Eren felt helpless, he was always the man with a plan, and a couple of back up plans in his pocket in case the main one didn’t work, he was the person who used his strength and wits to overcome any kind of hardships, except for this one.As days passed, Sara’s wounds healed little by little leaving behind several scars, and just like that time when she had a cold, her healing and regeneration process were much faster than normal, but even with all her wounds close,
“I always found it weird that you humans, despite your diversity, all believed this one story, about your heroic legacy, and how you defeated the evil in the world. The history of mankind, that is what you call it” Eren spoke calmly, his voice didn’t have a single trace of hostility, for he hoped she would understand, and maybe, just maybe, his earlier actions against her can be forgiven, and then they, together, can find out a way to save the world and write down a new history with a brighter future.“The tricky thing with such stories is that they happened too long ago. and time, my fair lady, is more than capable of blurring the lines between realities and lies.”“Yo...You mean that the history of mankind is a lie?” Sara, even though she was still scared couldn’t help but ask.Eren sighed in relief, for she finally had enough courage to ask, he wanted her to engage herself in the conversation so she wouldn&rsquo
“Back then, my fair lady, Humans, and demons were the same, they were still one race, one single population that lived together, that is why humans and demons now are so alike, we look alike to a certain degree and we can even mate, and it is also one of the reasons why I couldn’t understand the reasons that lead your ancestors to betray mine.Maybe it was out of fear, maybe out of cowardness, maybe out of stupidity, maybe out of greed for some crumbs, maybe they wanted to cling on the thickest thigh, and maybe they had slavery running inside their veins all along. It could be anything, however, no reasons can justify what they did, for my ancestors were in the same shoes, and yet they still chose to fight for their life and freedom, they refused to be some imposters’ livestock, a choice they paid for very, very dearly...” Eren’s gaze hardened a little, for he was reminded of his people’s suffering.“My ancestors at first had nothing but deep disapproval that turned to anger, it lived
“Sounds like they are having a lot of fun.” Micka leaned to his side to whisper to Geraldine, his voice amused as if he was playing one of his sick games, which he was, manipulating the black-haired demoness who was staring at the door with a face of someone who just got slapped.Geraldine’s ears picked up the muffled voice of the girl, and before it a gentle whisper that she couldn’t exactly understand, there was just a little opening when Eren’s shadows flickered and allowed some voices to trespass their barrier, such thing only meant that the keen shadows lord was distracted for that split second, and the muffled voices gave her a pretty good idea of what might have distracted him, an idea she didn’t like at all.“You know you shouldn’t be here, Lord Micka!” Geraldine swallowed her doubts and turned back to the fire lord, she knew what he was doing and she wasn’t that stupid to let him inside her head that