Abandoned Prison

Playing with fire

Kass looked at the woman with panic in his eyes but she just smiled at him. "Oh don't worry. I always give paralysis potions to people I burn here so they don't run around too much. As long as you hurry and clean up everything quickly nothing will happen to you," she said with a soothing and even friendly voice.

"But I can't do it now. The floor is too hot. Maybe I can do it after it cools down," he said while trying to keep his mind focused.

"Just go on. It will be more fun to watch," was her simple answer.

Disbelief appeared on his face. He couldn't understand how someone could enjoy making him do this. It looked like she really didn't intend to let him out so he took a deep breath and stepped on the hot floor.

He picked up the broom and the shovel and he started to sweep the ashes on the shovel as quickly as he could and then he dumped them in the bucket.

The floor was burning his feet. It became unbearable after a couple of minutes so he decided to quickly switch between stepping on his left and right foot. He must have looked really silly doing that while trying to sweep the ash and dump it into the bucket. He heard a sweet giggle from behind the iron bars but he couldn't help to imagine evil intentions behind those sweet sounds.

He thought that maybe she is not a human. She could be some sort of demon that transformed in this innocent looking woman or she could also be possessed by a demon or some evil spirit.

After he already had some ash in the bucket he saw remains of human bones. It was terrifying to just imagine what happened here today. He could hear the screams of the man being burned here and the sweet giggles of the woman or the thing that was looking at him.

He felt disgusted when he was putting the bones in the bucket but luckily he was almost finished with this twisted job.

"Hurry up. I can't wait forever," said her cute and melodic voice. 

"I am almost finished, just give me a second." He couldn't prevent his voice from trembling because he didn't want to be left here alone.

"Okay, you have one more minute," she said playfully.

His heart started beating faster and he started to feel desperate. He hurried up even more trying to be as fast as he could and he started to hear her giggles from behind the bars.

His feet got burned so much already that he couldn't endure it and he had to get on his knees to finish the work. The last bits of ash slid from the shovel to the bucked. The bucket was almost full and his work was finally finished.

Kass then quickly stood up, got on the stairs, and told her that he is done. She looked inside and she saw that he did what she wanted.

Her face was a little bit disappointed at first but then a slight smile appeared on her lips. 

"There is just one more thing you need to clean," she said. 

He didn't want to stay in the room any longer and he felt fear when she came up with something new and didn't let him out yet.

"Just let me out of here. I did everything you wanted," he said with a pleading tone.

She gave him a stern look. "Get on your knees," she said.

Her look made him shiver as he never saw her like that before. The stairs were too small for kneeling so he had to kneel on the hot floor again. Because his knees were already burned before the pain was even worse now and his face got twisted in pain.

It looked like it lifted the woman's mood as she smiled again. She was quiet for a moment and he was trying to figure out what she could make him do in this humiliating position.