"She's doing well," they murmured, watching a pulsing purple screen. They idly fidgeted with a thin silver chain that stretched out into the darkness beyond them, humming quietly as they did. A silver crown sat on their head, dripping thick black sludge down their face. They smiled, their mouth full of sharp, jagged teeth. Their eyes were pitch black voids, empty of everything. They were the Emptiness.
Mistress was on the screen in front of them, thin silver chains wrapped tightly around her, chains that no one else could see. As the Emptiness fiddled with the chain they were holding, Mistress twitched slightly, the chains tightening around her. "Such a beautiful little doll," the Emptiness chuckled softly to themself, watching as Mistress walked down into the dungeons again, dragging Fauna out of the cell as Epnosis screamed for her.
"Pretty little Fall," Mistress purred, chaining Fauna up and twitching again, the silver chains burning into her skin. She wiped black goo from her nose.
"Let me go!" Fauna screamed, jerking at the chains holding her. Mistress laughed, cranking a wheel on the wall that tightened the chains, stretching Fauna and making her scream as her shoulders and hips dislocated. Mistress's eyes lit up at the sound as she let out an insane laugh.
"Such beautiful screams," she murmured, her eyes glinting beneath the mask as she grabbed a knife, cutting symbols into Fauna's skin as she muttered words in an ancient language long forgotten under her breath. Fauna screamed loudly, tears starting to stream down her face.
The Emptiness sat forward on their throne, the void in their eyes becoming even darker as they tightened their grip on the chain they were holding. Mistress jerked unnaturally, drawing the knife in a jagged line across Fauna's chest, ruining the runes she was carving. Mistress hissed in anger and stretched the chains holding Fauna further, the resulting scream causing her eyes to light up once again. "All mine," the Emptiness purred, sitting back again as they watched approvingly, their thin fingers twitching the chain in certain ways every so often.
And, just before Fauna passed out from the pain, she heard a faint whisper of "perfection."
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The Dark Castle
AdventureA mother guides her four children to a safe house, leaving them there while she goes to fight a dark force that has landed in their forest home. A year later, she still hasn't returned, and her children have no choice but to go look for her, and de...
