Viva La Vida

Be My Mirror My Sword And Shield

TW: Torture and rape

(duh, what book do you think you're reading)

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Nightmare looked up when, yet again, the door to his cell had opened. He desperately hoped that his owner had brought him some food. He hadn't been given food for so long, not since he was brought here. Nightmare was so hungry, and maybe if he was lucky she'd take him out of there too. He had healed up quite a bit, his fingers were completely back, his tongue also healed up and he could talk once again, though not without stinging pain that caused him to have a small lisp. He hoped that it'd heal up properly, he didn't want to be cursed with a lisp for the rest of his life. His ribcage was still healing up, his ribs only healed to about his side, so he could only lay down on his back without horrific pain that was almost as bad when they were ripped off.

Nightmare's eye had also healed, mostly. His owner hadn't stabbed his eyelight or shoved another flower into his eye socket. Maybe that's what she was here for, to hurt him again, to blind him, or to make him look 'pretty' in her words. He flinched when she walked over to and kneeled in front of him.

"Aww, all awake, huh?" She said.

"Y-yes Ma'am..." Nightmare whispered.

He couldn't see her sadistic smile, but he knew it was there. It was always there, even when she was pissed off, even when he did everything wrong to her. That smile was burned into his mind, and whenever he closed his eye he swore he could see it burned into his eyelid. He was surprised when she unlocked him from the chains binding his wrists, and he fell to the floor. He was weak, too weak to even hold his own body up anymore. Nightmare instead fell onto the concrete floor that was stained with his dried blood.

"You're so pathetic. I couldn't even imagine that you used to be a King as powerful as Nightmare was. You're not even him anymore, just a broken puppet to move and break as I please." She said as she grabbed his wrist and pulled him to his feet.

He almost toppled over, but his small frame was pulled into his owner's side and held up so easily. His bones were small, and despite his-still unsummoned-huge tits he was skinny and looked as malnourished as he felt. She pulled him along, not bothering to slow down her pace to allow Nightmare to keep up with her. But it wasn't like she needed to, she was practically dragging him along, carrying him. His feet were sliding against the floor, though to be honest maybe scraping is a more accurate word.

His body was flopped over onto her as she pulled him along, humming a quiet tune to herself with a smile on her face. Though this one didn't seem sadistic, it seemed more... happy. Nightmare honestly didn't think that she was capable of feeling happiness, so it was weird. But he mentally made a bet with himself about how quickly it would turn back into a sadistic one. He was sure it wouldn't take too long, especially after they were alone for the first time in what he could only assume was a week or two. There was no way to tell time in there, no windows, or even lights outside the cell, no meals, not anything. All he had in there was the blinding pain and the freedom of sleep and dreams. Sometimes the dreams-the memories-hurt more than the pain. But they were literally his only lifeline right now, all he had left to keep himself sane.

His owner dragged him somewhere he didn't care to know about, somewhere he thought he hadn't seen before. Though in all reality he was too delirious to be able to tell anything about where he was, or even who he was at this point. The room she led him into was warm, and humid, and filled with the sounds of crying and pained screams. It was nothing new, and nothing he hadn't heard from the cells around him when he was chained up. Though it was a new sensation when he felt his owner fully pick him up and drop him down into something warm. He could feel something coating his bones up to his broken ribcage. He opened his heavy eye and looked up to see the bathhouse, and looked down to see he was sitting in one of the pools.