Burning Soul

“What is this place?”He asked back as he got up trying to get himself together.

The prison was in an old cistern and had access to the main city sewer. The lower cell was used for execution and corpses of the people who were executed were thrown into the sewer. Intimates received no food and often died of starvation. These prisons were totally dark holes, cool and damp, unlighted and unwarm. There was also no proper arrangement for sanitation and no means of a facility for human residence. Imprisonment was the easiest kind of penalty known; which include various kinds of bodily punishments such as branding, hanging, mutilation and death.

"A dead body, specifically a human corpus has a rank and plunger smell mixed with a tinge of sickening sweetness. Imagine a rotting piece of meat with a couple of drops of cheap perfume and you're halfway to understanding what a human corpse smells like."

“Isn’t it beautiful?” Eric walked to the front and replied.

“Beautiful?” he was questioned back by Theo right away!

“Yeah!

The colour of blood, it’s the purest, isn’t it?

The smell of the blood, I can’t get enough of it! The sound that people make when their guts are ripped apart, while they are alive!

Ah!

The sound of flesh while it’s being torn apart from bones, wait! Did I mention the sound of cracking bones! It sounds way better when the being is still alive!

There is a lot I can go on talking about! Like the face, people make when their skin it’s scratched off of their bodies, their cries when they lose their sight! It's so heartwarming!

That everything you see here, is indeed beautiful!” His reply made Theo shiver, ‘how can one be so inhuman?’ he wasn’t the only one.

‘I really don’t want to think that he may be involved in that incident’ Aeneas clenched his fists.

Hearing his mad cry no one could believe he was the same blood as Duvrion and Milot!

“Now, as long as I’m your host, you’ll understand how beautiful all these things are as well!

But there is a catch!” He turned back! And continued, “You might not be there to understand the beauty of it!”

“Enough Eric!” This time a sound came from the inside of the prison,

A male beastemen walked out, he was sturdy looking but was rather short in height, not to mention he had animal ears meaning that he was no pure blood.

As he came close his appearance became scarier as he was wearing a mask in his head made from some unknown creature’s skull and he was wearing some thick skin over his body.

His back was crooked like that of an old bent tree, under protruding cheekbones, his eyes were like big puddles of black and as you stared back at him you felt yourself tumbling down those puddles forever. The look was frightening enough.

“Uncle! I don’t think you’d like these people being treated nicely as well, right?” Eric sounded rather familiar with the person, he even called him uncle!

“I know! But Lord Flynn has warned us to not play with them roughly for now! He has something planned for them!

We surely wouldn’t want that to be ruined, right?” From the looks of it, the person that just walked in looked to be holding more authority in there, but no one could understand why Eric called him Uncle!

He wasn’t even remotely similar looking to Duvrion or Dimitri! He wasn’t even a pure-blood either!

“Hmm, if he has something planned, it must be fun!” Eric gave off a crooked laugh

The guards were preparing to lead everyone to their cells, yeah there were some cells fortunately and they were being taken to ‘em.

They had better luck than the others who were tied upside-down to the ceiling!

“Theo! Have some faith in Dimitri! He must have a plan so don’t try to do anything funny!” Aeneas warned him off before being taken to another cell.

As for Ember, they decided to just let her be in the same cell as Theodore.

Luna who was a mere cat, as of now, they didn’t even think of her and just let her be with Ember after she scratched a guard to death while he tried to separate them.

Even as of now, Theo wasn’t able to process things very well, it was too much and too sudden.

They are being accused, and arrested, being taken to some godforsaken place, Theo was shaken to bones and he wasn’t the only one!

Catherine, in another cell, was on the verge of collapsing with shock! For a girl, facing this place was no fun!

She was a bit strong in such terms that’s all, but the fact that she was a human and a girl at that! Her emotional state was just as disastrous as Theo’s

“Aeneas!

You hear me?” Nuae called from his cell.

“Yeah! It’s just It reminds me of things I want to forget so badly!” Aeneas replied in a low tone, he wasn’t happy seeing or hearing things.

“What do you think?” Nuae tried asking his thoughts to which he didn’t reply for a while!

“I don’t want to think that he’s involved in any way! But something’s off!” Aeneas replied

“What?”

“I don’t sense any strong being nearby! Like that guy we saw, he was so weak even you could take him out!”

Hearing his reply Nuae narrowed his eyes, “That’s not even remotely funny, but, we can’t escape too, right?”

“Yeah! That’d mean we are guilty!” Aeneas replied, making his intuition correct, “He’s playing smart that Flynn guy!”

“So what is worrying you?” Nuae understood his state of mind from his tone,

“This is something related to Dimitri! He might be in danger!”

His reply was followed by a brief silence.

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…

Here is his cell, Theo wasn’t feeling any better. His shock had gotten worse of him making him sick in just a few hours!

“Master! You alright?” She touched his cheeks and asked in a worried tone.

Her soft yet cold hands shook his trance off for him, although he didn’t notice it but it was the result of Divine Touch.

“Ember! Don’t do anything rashly!” Luna didn’t forget to warn looking at her getting angry at the situation.

Hearing evh Ember in worry, Theo couldn’t help but shed a tear,

“I can’t handle this place! It’s too brutal for me!

Not to mention, even after training this much and making myself better at fighting, I can’t help y'all! What good am I?”

“Don’t think something silly like that kid!

You haven’t seen enough of this world’s cruelty yet!” Aeneas replied to his cry from his cell, clearly audible to everyone in their cells!