CHAPTER 124

It was a blur from then on.

They whipped me with whips laced in silver, fed me Aurum and argentum and made me inhale wolfesbane, the grounded petals of a flower that attacked our cardio vascular system. They flogged me with silver studded sticks and kicked me with silver soled shoes and stabbed at me and poked fun at me and laughed at me.

Maddie was struggling so hard in her seat, crying and begging in mumbles for them to stop.

I was weak. My eyes were closing. I could have died any second...

And then, i heard a growl so gutteral, so beast like, from the other side of the room, in the direction where Maddie was.

At first, I thought that it was all in my head, because no no no... It cannot be.

But the others fell silent and stopped their assault on me.

Maddie was growling, deep in her throat, her eyes were flashing yellow with beast like slits as pupils. Fur sprouted out of her skin. She seemed to grow bigger and bigger on the seat and stood on her feet, still tied to the chair, and ke