Chapter 202: Sister? (1/2)
Abby slowly opened her eyes, her vision all blurry and unclear as the world continued to spin in circles all around her, her vision still shrouded in darkness despite her night vision.
The memories of what had happened to her prior slowly began to renter her mind. Despite all of her best efforts, training, and preperations, HikariYami, that filthy witch, still managed to take her out with but a few simple strikes. She now knew more than ever that she was still far too weak, even with her massive increase of strength in the past few months.
She needed to train even harder... Her enemy was much stronger than she had ever expected. She made a mockery out of her, embarrassed her in the presence of her lord who was fighting his heart out only a few kilometres away filling her heart with a mixture of feelings that even she could not fully decipher.
She did not want to abuse her lord's mercy and kindness.
She was an absolute failure, her lord had already given her so many chances yet she always somehow managed to fail and disappoint him no matter how hard she tried. Yet, now was not the time for such thoughts, she could absolutely not allow herself to delve into such things.
She needed to assess her situation and find her way out of her predicament in order to not make her lord's life harder because despite all of her thoughts, deep down she knew and felt that her lord would never give her up. Even when he saw her pitiful moments of weak crying he tried to comfort her and wipe away her tears, not by lying but by telling her the truth... He would never even think about hurting her... He always did what he thought was best for her as he was concerned for her safety and health, more than she could say about anyone else in her life.
He was truly the kindest person she knew and he would never leave her for dead. He was certainly out there looking for her which made her feel both troubled and comforted at the same time since she did not feel like she was worth such trouble.
Instinctively, the first thing she tried was to establish a mind-link with her lord. Yet, exactly like what had happened with Jayden, she only received the muffled sound of static no matter how hard she tried, making her inwardly curse as she now knew her mind-link was completely useless, most likely from an anti communication crystal that had been proved to tamper and affect such a skill.
She knew that she was captured, no doubt in enemy territory. So, her top priority was to snap herself out of her confusion and return back to reality, shifting her attention once again.
To help clear her sight, she naturally tried to lift her arm to scratch her eyes only to find out that she was not able to move even a single limb… Yet, at this point, she was unsure if that was due to injuries, numbness, or bindings, her vision had not yet cleared to a point where she would be able to know that.
Blinking a few times to help ease the strain on her eyes, she heard a voice echo inside her mind and all around her, a voice she would never be able to forget in a million years…
”It seems like you're awake sister!”
A voice that spawned from the depths of hell its self.
Yet, with her cloudy mind, she decided to dismiss it as she knew that she always imagined and hallucinated about such things all the time, ignoring the sound was almost second nature to her.
Yet, as the blur in her eyes continued to fade away, the room coming into clear view, her eyes almost popped out of their sockets like she was zapped out of her dazy, almost zombie-like state.
She could not believe her eyes, was she in a trial? No! If she were in a trial she would not have even considered the thought of it being a trial, either this was a nightmare or it was actually reality.
It was a room fit for a queen yet, in her mind, it looked like a room fit for a devil… No, saying that would have been an insult to the lord she knew and loved with all her heart, it was more like a room fit for a monster...
The large, crimson room housed memories of a living hell for her, the blackened, blood-red walls surrounded by rich furniture of all kinds looked more like salamanders ready to eat her alive, the large ruby bed at the back of the room looked like it could fit at least 4 people and had a chandelier on top of it with various red gems, giving the black and red room an even larger tint of red, even further adding to the hellish landscape in Abby's mind.
When she looked down, she noticed that she was sitting on a metallic chair, enchained by metal bindings that she knew looked all too similar, a clanking sound echoing around the expansive room as she struggled to break free. Around her mouth was some sort of muzzle, making her look like an encaged beast to any possible onlooker.