Thief of Scarlett

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9 years ago.

Everything hurt. With every move, her body screamed in red hot pain. She'd lost the use of her left leg weeks ago. It was rotting away right in front of her. Why didn't they just cut it off and let it rot that way? It had been so long since they chained her to the wall. It was days or even months since she'd seen the sun. The only light that she got was when it shined through the metal bars. Every morning she stretched her right leg to feel the warmth but every time it failed.

The men came in every morning and tried to get her to talk but it rarely worked. They always tried something different shallow cuts to the skin, poking a hot rod to her skin, took out her reproductive organs. even tried to convince her that they'd let her go home. She knew that the men would never leave at least not Alive.

Her head rested on her shoulder despite the pain it caused. Her eyes barely opened was the cell was opened. Four men walked in their hands had nothing today, she only had enough strength to look up at them and braced for the beating that was soon to come. The first kick hit her broken ribs, she yelped in pain as they went at her small body. They kicked again and again until a deep voice told them to stop. As girl spits the blood on the floor and her mouth kept filling with it. The man leaning up against the wall squatted down to her level grabbing her face to look at him.

" This can all stop if you tell me what I want"

" it's not going to stop, you're just going to move on to someone else" her voice was rough from the days without water.

" Thane I'm afraid you are quite right" he let go of her face and cupped it as if he were a lover "you are of no use to me anymore"

This was it, he was going to kill her and leave her here to rot in the cell.

" Lord Maxwell, I don't think I was ever of use to you"

He stood up putting his hands on his hips looking down at her. The man next to his right passed him a sword. His sword he received on his 12th birthday.

" honestly, you never where"

With quick speed, he thrust the sword in her chest. A small gasp came from her lips. The pain of her sternum breaking, her heart trying to beat again and again but failed. She looked at the men one had his eye's closed his knuckles white not wanting to look at the sight in front of him. He took the sword from her chest and sheathed it. Not giving a thought of the blood that stained it.

" rest well" the man walked out "clean this up"

Thane could feel her life fading from her small damaged body. One-click and a second click her arms fell to her sides. One of them picked her up with such care and walked out of the basement, through the kitchen, and through the door leading to the gardens behind the house. Her head fell back just a bit looking up at the sun shining above them. The warmth soaking into her dead skin. She'd lost thought of the man holding her tight in his arms.

He continued walking past the garden and into the thick tree line of pines. More voices came from the distant clearing ahead. Shouts for the doctor to quickly come were booming in her ears. Another man was at his side moving what was left of her shift aside looking at the injuries that covered her. More people gathered next to him making an away through a camp. Someone lifted the tent flap letting them in. Gently she was sent down and the man next to her grabbed her hand squeezing it and placed a kiss on it.

" Dam...ien" she coughed " you..."

" don't speak save your strength"

she shut her mouth and just let her head fall to her side. " she's burning up!" the doctor moved quickly gathered tools from the table next to them.

" what's going on?" Damien asked frantically.

" her magic is resounding to her injuries rather quickly"

Thane's eye's fluttered a couple of times before her vision turned blurry and eventually turned dark.

" Thane stay awake!" was the last thing that plagued her mind.

Today, there was no pain, no chains holding her to the wall, no men walking in to beat her. She slowly stretched her arms from the lack of movement for what seemed like was days then moved her legs and felt both of them. Felt her left leg move and bend for the first time in god knows for how long. Thanes eye's slowly opened to see she was in a stone room. Bottles littered the tables and the small one next to her. She moved her neck around looking anywhere she could the first thing her eyes laid on was Damien sleeping on her bedside.

" Damien.." Thane stopped her throat was no longer scratchy.

Damien's eyes fluttered open " you awake.."

' where?' she tried from sitting up but Damien stopped her.

" doctor!" The man rushed in and looked down surprised and went to the table mixing herbs and liquids.

" take it easy" slowly she sat up but couldn't ignore the tightness in her chest and winced. The doctor walked to her and held a cup to her mouth and drank its contents. The tightness slowly faded away the doctor started working right away.

" where am I?"

Damien looked at the doctor then back at her "you're in Edelbrock, The fortress of the last hunting guild the Daggers"