Little Bunny's Happiness

Pain

- Here, your food.

A tray slides in under the metal bars.

It's weird. This is the third meal for today...

- Didn't you already feed me twice today?

- Don't question it, just eat.

Such fancy foods too. But nothing that needs knives, huh.

A tray of grilled shrimps, mash potato, and cut up steaks, along with a bow of clam chowder.

They have been raising the food quality recently.

But like they said, don't question it, so she just went ahead and eat up.

Thanks to that, her frail, starving body has gained back a bit of flesh.

After eating, she let the tray there, wait for the guard to clean it up.

They don't keep a really tight watch on her cell.

- Come on now... break!

Apathya is transferring mana into the shackle on her neck.

Every time she does that, the rune glows red, and her whole body feels sluggish.

They are magic shackles after all, the one that sucks away her mana, making her unable to use magic.

But on theory, if they are overloaded with mana, they'll break eventually.

So she does that every time a guard is not there.

It must have been a few months already.

- Come with us.

A few guards come inside, taking her out.

The one in front is holding the chain connected to that shackle on her neck, and then two more are walking behind her.

They lead her to a bathroom, with a girl already waiting there, a maid?

- She'll clean you up.

- Why?

- Don't question it.

So Apathya follows, she let the maid do what ever she wants, washing her hair, cleaning her body, and then dry her up.

After everything is done, that same group of guards comes and take her back to her cell.

Strangely, the cell is different.

It's clean.

There is no foul smell, no stench of urine or feces, no dirty spot or anything.

- Wait in there.

Apathya thinks that there's no point to asking them anyway, so she kept quiet and follows.

Not so long after that, the mayor comes.

Right at the moment Apathya sees him, her heart jumps, fear overwhelm her, and she starts sweating.

- You, come with me.

Apathya is too scared to think, she just listen like a docile pet.

The mayor takes the lead, and pull her toward him.

- Hurry up.

Being pulled suddenly, Apathya falls onto the ground, but quickly stand back up, scared that he would kick and yell at her for tripping.

Yet, he doesn't

She's confused, and relieved at the same time.

They walks to a room, someone's bedroom to be exact. A fancy bedroom with items made of gold, and furniture made out of expensive wood, it might even be much more expensive than the bed room she had back in Death Realm.