Pain Is My Love Language

The decent into sin is sudden, and deep.

Anderson: 

" Sir, let me talk with her. She seems more complacent when it's me." 

" Fine, get as much information as you can. Do whatever you are comfortable with, but we need answers." 

" I got this. Faith serves well when placed in capable hands. Galatians 6:2 'Carry each other's burdens, and in this way, you will fulfill the law of Christ'."

" Amen. Good luck." 

The others all left, Maxwell was the last out, locking the door. I understood. They didn't know if she would break loose, and given how pissed she is, the chain looked to be barely holding her down, the slight crack in the cement doing nothing to ease my fears of her getting loose. The door was a vault door, seal-able from the inside or out, given it doubled as a bunker.

" Deianira, I'm going to ask you questions. You are to give an honest, raw answer. No mind games or playing around, or I'll be forced to break my promise, alright? Can you do this?" 

" Anything for you, Padre." 

I swallowed hard, the way she said that did little to relax my mind, and began with the questions with the press of a recorder button. 

" What is your full name, for the record?" 

" Deianira, daughter of Echidna and Typhon, the mother and father of all monsters."

" Do you work alone in your acts of carnage?" 

" Yes." 

" Are there more like you on earth?" 

" No. I managed to escape the Gods Realm and my prison in Tartarus." 

" Were you ever human? You mentioned being mortal, but that doesn't mean human, not explicitly." 

" Yes." 

" What was your human name, for the record?" 

" What will it accomplish if I tell you?" 

" We just want to understand, and if we have to go deep into your past and history to do so, then by God so be it." 

" My name was Atlantia." 

" Where were you born?" 

" Sparta, 1675." 

" What was your crime on earth to have you imprisoned in Tartarus?"

" I killed my family, and ate them, all but the head and the bones." 

" Why?" 

" No one likes to be called a monster, let alone by their family." 

" Why did they call you a monster?" 

" Because from the age of 5, I was clinically insane. I tried to kill the family cat by bashing it's head off a tree by the tail. Apparently Sociopathy is a quick way to become a well hated child." 

" I see."  I made sure the tape recorder was catching everything, noting it was going down quickly. 

" Deianira, do you mind if people address you as Atlantia?" 

" The last man to do so got gutted like a fish." 

" So you hate your human life?" 

" More than you could ever imagine." 

I heard the tape recorder click off, telling me the tape was done. I grabbed the tape, knocked on the door, and it was unlocked, letting me out, but I caught the barest hint of her speaking Latin, and it made my skin crawl, be it excitement or fear or both, I didn't want to know, but I knew it would haunt me.