31: Sinful Darkness

LUCIEN

“We are not going to do shit for you!” Sean began his customary morning ritual of attempting to seem macho by challenging me. I sighed in monotony, tired of his tired antics. The motherfucker, who stood beside him, seemed to encourage him, but they could only bark futilely as I had my men encircling the dungeon.

I had a look of boredom as I asked, "Have we really got to go through this all again? You keep defying me, so I break your bones, and then they heal and I break them again. Is this really worth all the time it's taking?"

I had commanded them to clean the entirety of the dungeons, though I could not fathom why it was such a difficult task. I had given them ample warning, and I could have easily enforced a far more severe punishment, had they not complied.

David spoke this time, his voice full of determination. "'Think whatever you want, you can't turn us into your workers," he declared. The boys' voices rose in a cacophony of protest, while the girls remained eerily qu