(GIF ISN'T MINE, CREDITS TO THE MAKER)
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Sabo suppressed a shudder as the drüskelle dragged her into the Grisha holding facilities. These were the rooms where the drüskelle would place Grisha to discover their identities.
The drüskelle kept up with the stories about the most dangerous Grisha and made reports about them.
As her vision cleared Sabo could feel that her wrists were being chained to the floor, she looked around and saw that the room was busier than she had expected. Cecilia Opjer looked as her daughter was being secured to the floor before walking to the desk.
'I've got another one,' she said to the drüskelle.
'Are these the last ones of today?' the drüskelle asked.
'Unfortunately,' she replied.
The Elderclock began to chime and Sabo knew that she had an hour to get out of this sector and make it to the incinerator shaft.
'Are you okay, dear?' an old woman spoke in Kerch. Sabo blinked as she looked at the woman. Her hair was grey and Sabo could see that it had once been in a tight bun, that was until the Grisha had dragged her into this place, Sabo thought.
'I'm okay,' Sabo replied softly. 'What's your name?'
'Melanie,' she whispered before she looked at the guards at the small desk. They were questioning a male Grisha and writing in a big book.
Sabo knew she was at the right place.
The male Grisha started shouting something in Shu before he was dragged into another room.
'I told him he shouldn't have done that,' Melanie breathed. 'Why didn't he listen to me?' '
'Where are they taking him?' Sabo asked as she observed the door the Grisha had been dragged through. There were two doors behind the desk.
'They're taking him to the laboratory. I told him to keep his head down,' Melanie cried before she grabbed Sabo's hand. 'You listen to me, honey. When they're going to question you, you have to act weak. Otherwise, they are going to put you in the sector for dangerous Grisha.'
'Why does it matter where I'm placed?' Sabo asked.
'Because people don't survive there.' Melanie said as she looked at the doors. 'They place the weak Grisha in the better sector because they aren't a flight risk. We'll be imprisoned, but we'll be alive.'
The drüskelle pointed at Melanie. Melanie squeezed Sabo's hand before she was dragged away. The conversation between Melanie and the drüskelle was quiet before the drüskelle wrote something in the book and ordered the other drüskelle to drag her away through the other door.
Sabo watched as the drüskelle closed the book and handed it to her mother. Cecilia walked through the door behind the drüskelle as she followed Melanie.
Sabo knew that she needed to go through that door as well.
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'Your name?' the blond-haired drüskelle asked as they secured her to a chair. She was surrounded by multiple drüskelle.
Sabo gave him a confused look. 'What?' she asked in Kerch.
'Your name?' the drüskelle replied in Kerch.
'I'm.. my name is Saskia.' Sabo breathed. 'I'm innocent, why am I here?'
'Surname?' the drüskelle asked again.
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The FlameKeeper - Kaz Brekker
Fanfiction"Just because you escape one trap, doesn't mean you will escape the next." Arabella Opjer's life has been a series of unfortunate events. If she had been born in Ravka, she'd been worshiped for her abilities. She was the FlameKeeper. A legend waitin...
