St. Lucy

Destroy - First Night

Just so everyone is aware, I am not used to writing female oriented relationships lol, so my female character won't be the main romance focus for this. Just roll with it for now

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It was quiet for a really long time after she spoke. It's not that I didn't want to talk it was just... I could not find the words to respond properly.

Who were these... Masters she spoke so fearfully of? And why was she so certain we might be killed by them if we tried escaping?

"Who are they? These... People you're afraid of. I need to know what I am dealing with."

Brianna is silent for a while thirty seconds, and I have to look down to make sure she had not fallen asleep. But just as I am about to ask again she responded.

"They're the ones who caused this mess... They are the ones who... Who forced us to become trapped here. They want us to go crazy. They want to toy with us."

She stops, before slowly her head cranes to meet my eyes.

"You've been marked. Haven't you?"

Her voice was quiet. Almost scared to talk about it. We huddled into the corner of her room, with her head on my lap as we were trying to conserve as much heat as we could. I don't even know how it got like this so quickly, but after hearing nothing but silence for the past hour her voice was a surprise.

"What?" I croaked roughly. "I... What do you mean?"

Brianna sighed but didn't move. So she knew, about my mark. Was this nothing new to her?

"I can tell. You're different from when you left a few hours ago. You're.... More depressed. More cautious and wary of things you see and noises you hear. You've given up too easily."

Well if she knows...

"...Yes. I got marked. But for your own safety, I won't tell you who did it. Not until i know it wont have consequences."

Then she looked up at me, her bright blue eyes dull with exhaustion but still holding fire in them.

"You've seen my mark, and you've seen it get worse. Well now we are both on the way to being forced into a life we never wanted. Look, it looks like this now."

Then she pulled away the sweater she out on earlier to show me her neck. The moment I saw it I felt powerless. It was now as pronounced as it would get. The once faded black ring was now all a stark threatening black with the star looking like someone had just drawn on her all over. Did... Aoi do this to her? Now I wanted to know the million dollar question.

"Who did this to you?" I murmured and gently pressed my thumb to the mark. She flinched at first but then relaxed.

"I don't know his name. It was about a week ago when it happened," she began softly. "I was being walked down to the courtyard by my nurse to get some fresh air. She had to go get me a blanket because it was cold, so she left me alone for only a moment. But that moment... It changed my life forever. A man, dressed in what I thought was a doctor's outfit, came up to me."

I could see tears welling in her eyes, so all of this... Must have really scarred her.

"He seemed... He seemed nice at first, but then... Then he grabbed me by the neck and hissed at me. Like... Like he was some kind of animal. It was horrible. But then I caught something as he was squeezing me. The hissing sounded like he was speaking in a different language. Like... Some kind of curse. Then after he let go of me he threw me down and threatened me to stay quiet or else he would kill me. I haven't told a single person for fear of my life. And every night I feel myself changing. Its changing me for the worst. And I'm scared."