Chapter 7- Belly chewed by the rat.

The clock hanging in the prison showed that it was 3 a.m. The soldier came closer and warned again. “We are giving you half an hour for contemplation. If you fail to disclose the truth even after that, then be ready for the next round of torture. We would just love to hear your screams once again.”

The soldiers locked her up and left. She was all alone. She eagerly started looking for ways to escape, but unfortunately, she could find none. Moreover, her hands were already chained, and she couldn’t even touch the burned places on her arms.

She was pampered by her father throughout her life. Her father passed away recently during a battle on the border. She remembered how worried her father had become once she burned her fingers while trying to cook dinner for the first time in her life. It was just a minor burn, and it hardly hurt. But he immediately took her to the clinic and got her dressed. Tears rolled down her cheeks as she missed her father and wanted him back in her life. She had just recently recovered from the insurmountable pain when her friends betrayed her and left her exposed to the dangers on the island.

She closed her eyes and sat quietly. “How can I disclose something that I don’t know? What should I do so that they are able to trust me? She thought as she recalled that she had the cruise tickets in the pocket of the warmer that she was wearing.

“I should have revealed everything about myself to the Alpha. He would have trusted me if I had shown him the tickets. Why didn’t I think of this earlier? These soldiers would not allow me to meet the Alpha now, even if I requested it. They are too rude." She was just contemplating when she heard the commotion at the door again. “Oh! No! What are they now going to do? What would another round of torture be like?” Ella got extremely worried at the thought. A chill ran down her spine.

The soldier appeared with a rat in his hand. Another soldier followed him with a bucket and the heated iron rod. “Are you going to kill this rat by burning it with the rod?” Ella asked. She wanted to remain silent, but the anxiety coupled with pain made her too nervous, so she kept asking questions. “What is this rat for? Are you going to leave it here in the dark room with me? She asked again.

“Can’t you just keep quiet? You just blabber a lot. Just shut your mouth and let us do our work.” He warned again.

The soldiers then started chaining her legs this time. "Hey, stop it! What are you doing? Don’t chain my legs. I will not try to escape from here even if you let my legs free.” Ella yelled.

The soldier got enraged this time and slapped her tight on the cheeks. They then fastened the other end of the chain to two poles on either side of the prison, ensuring that she was in a lying position and that she could not move.

They then pulled up her clothes, uncovering her belly, and placed the rat over it. All the while, she kept screaming, requesting that they set her free. But they turned a deaf ear to her requests and continued their work.

“Call your Alpha here. I need to speak to him. You all are punishing me for an offense that I have not committed. I will explain things to him. Please call him here once.” She pleaded.

“It is Alpha’s orders that we are following. He will not listen to you since he is in a towering rage. But for the information that we need to extract from you, he would have slayed you right there.” The soldier said as he placed the bucket over the rat that was on her belly. Ella felt creepy and wanted to jerk off the bucket and the rat. But her hands were chained tightly to the poles.

“The rat has been kept hungry for twenty-four hours, and it will feed upon the flesh of your belly. This is the second round of torture, and more rounds will follow unless you disclose the truth.” The soldier informed me.

“Kindly set me free. I am innocent. I am frightened of rats. Please keep it away.” She kept pleading, but it was of no avail.

The soldier then started heating the rod once again and then gently warmed the edge of the bucket. The uneasy rat, which was kept hungry for hours together, started chewing her belly.

The soldiers then left the prison, locking her again. She was battling against that creepy creature trying to chew her belly. She was completely powerless and in a pathetic condition, with nobody around who could help her.

Her starved body and the burns on her arms were already hurting her, and now this rat biting her made her tremble. She felt that she would perish. The pain made her dizzy, and she was now in a semi-conscious state, unable to apply her brain anymore to whatever was going on around her. She had almost surrendered herself.

Ella just closed her eyes and started praying to the moon goddess, pleading with her to help her out of the situation that she was in. The images of her siblings, who were dependent on her, completely kept appearing before her. The only ray of hope that she had now was a miracle from heaven sent by the Moon Goddess for her protection. She had believed in her since her childhood, so she left everything to her.