"Here!" Anna says as she brings in a white dress and lays it on the end of my new bed.
It's been a week since Lord Delaney attacked me. The maids had cleaned up the room and replaced
any broken or torn items but I couldn't bring myself to stay there. Not wanting to tread any longer on Elias' hospitality when he let me stay in his chambers, I decided to bunk with Anna and Jasmine. Since Perscilla was no longer residing at the castle, her bed remained empty, offering the best opportunity to change my living arrangements.
"What's that for?" I asked, looking from the dress to Anna in a complete loss.
"It's for your bonding ceremony." She replied, still flashing her brilliant smile. "Thelios has made all of his bounding slaves dress appropriately for the ceremony. White....pure....pure blood slave...get it?" She asked, I'm sure she was trying to be cute.
"There will be blood involved, correct?" I asked back.
"Yes, why?"
"I just don't think white would be a suitable color choice for the event." Honestly, I was more concerned about the ceremony in general rather than what attire I would be wearing but the conversation provided a distraction from discussing the ritual in itself.
Elias had taken a small group of the guardsmen to a small village on the outskirts of Atheria. Supposedly there is a local witch who resides there. Considering the third witch from our current group of charmed women was lost when the guardsmen infiltrated the red armored demons' camp, we were in need of a new witch to complete the small coven and perform the ritual. I myself could care less wether they are able to obtain the witch or not. I'm not fond of the idea of being bound and the longer it took them to find a witch, the longer I got to remain my usual, awkward, unbound self.
"You will look stunning in whatever you choose to wear." Jasmine chimed in.
"Thank you." I responded, shyly. Since her master's life had ended, Jasmine was left unbound and I had begged Lord Thelios to allow her to stay here at the Imperial castle. Reluctantly he agreed to her permanent residence here but only on the condition that she becomes a blood slave for himself as I will be. Her ceremony, Thelios says, will be held at a later date than mine. It's too much for one night I suppose to have two ceremonies at once.
"What's it like Jasmine?" Anna asked.
"What's what like!" Jasmine was confused much like I was.
"To have a blood bond broken, did it hurt?" To my surprise, Jasmine answered Anna's random question. Only random because I didn't possess the courage to ask the question myself.
"It hurt more when the bond was created." Her answer made my eyes grow wide. As she saw the fear creep to my face, Jasmine continued, trying to reassure me.
"The initial creation of the bond, the ritual bite, it hurts like any other time you are bitten. Slowly the pain goes away as your master continues to drink your blood. The closer he gets to those last few drops, your body gets heavy and you simply feel tired."
"Because you are dying." I interject.
"Yes." She honestly stated. She continued again, only this time, making my fear return and making me want to run and hide.
"The most terrible part is when you drink your master's blood. He will bite his own wrist and place his bleeding wound to your lips. You will hardly have any strength to swallow the blood let alone drink on your own, so he'll let the blood drip into your mouth until it slowly restores your strength making you able to drink."
"Jasmine, stop you are scaring Amily." Anna said but I was too focused on what Jasmine was saying to even bother agreeing with Anna. I sat on my bed with wide eyes and my mouth hanging open listening intently to jasmine as she told me more of the terrible part of this bonding ritual.
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Atherian Tales: The Blood Slave
Vampiros"You are to be a blood slave to Lord Thelios. No one can taste you but him and it's my duty to make sure no one tries." His deep voice sent shivers throughout my body that had nowhere to escape, making me shake where I sat. The Amily Brown that I w...
