LOGINTeresa
The pain from the silver cuffs made me feel like I was slowly being erased from the earth. I was peeled, burned, and shaped into something weaker.
I was in my worst possible state, and the pain didn’t fade. It wasn't dull. It was the worst moment of my entire life. By the time I heard the door swing open, I was long gone. I couldn’t even think.
Before I saw faces, I felt hands pulling the cuffs off.<
TeresaThe pain from the silver cuffs made me feel like I was slowly being erased from the earth. I was peeled, burned, and shaped into something weaker.I was in my worst possible state, and the pain didn’t fade. It wasn't dull. It was the worst moment of my entire life. By the time I heard the door swing open, I was long gone. I couldn’t even think.Before I saw faces, I felt hands pulling the cuffs off.“Careful,” a masculine voice muttered. “She’s almost gone. The Alpha needs her alive.”“If the Alpha wanted her alive,” another masculine voice shot back. “He shouldn’t have treated her like an end-of-the-road case.”“We don’t have time for these squabbles,” said another voice. “We should just release her and go our way.”&l
TeresaI was still panting and relishing in my victory when the guards returned, but their hands weren’t bare as before.This time, they held whips. I blinked as four of them advanced. Two grabbed me, adjusting the chains and forcing me to kneel, facing the wall.Before I could say another word, a searing slash across my back accompanied a sharp slap of rubber against skin.My heart sank as the pain travelled through my body in waves. Before I could take in the pain, another slash of pain followed.I screamed, trashing against the bindings, but they were too strong, holding me in place. The searing pain came again, and again, and again, and I yelled, cried, trashed, but nothing.The men kept going, flogging with all their might.Energy sipped away from my body in waves. I felt like yanking everything holding
LynchI may have told my brothers that I’ve got this taken care of, but the truth of the matter was that I didn’t know where to start.This world didn’t come with directions or a map. There was no sun either.No way to tell the north from the south. Just a wide, endless terrain.I walked with no direction. If the goddess of the moon were on my side, she’d help me. So, I kept walking.And even when I lost the sense of purpose to continue walking, I continued until the ground beneath my feet changed.When my legs threatened to give out, I rested, then continued after a moment of relaxation.That became the order of my search. A continuous rhythm of walking, hunting, and resting.And I continued. I didn’t stop. There was no need to. It didn’t make sense.&n
TeresaThis room made my skin crawl. The grey colour of the pain made my skin crawl. It felt like the color had been drained out of life.The window in the room was too high. I tried jumping through it once. I failed.The only scent in the room was cold stone and something metallic that lingered in the air.Time refused to move, and there was no way to tell. It sat on my chest like a wicked lord and pressed against my neck so hard that breathing felt like work.The puzzle was that Alpha Oris and Tanya called it a special room.To me, it was a cage. A cage that attacked my sanity and ensured I ran mad quickly.I paced again for the umpteenth time. I’d lost count. Maybe it was the hundredth. I didn’t know.Counting felt useless here. My bare feet slapped against the floor carelessly, re
KellerI immediately noticed how wrong the town felt when we arrived. It didn’t feel hostile or dangerous.It felt aware. Like it knew who we were.The magic humming in the air was so thick that it felt like someone was breathing. It was so thick that it crawled under my skin and made my teeth itch.Bennett’s pace slowed beside me, his eyes scanning the crooked street. I took note of the glowing sigils carved into the lamppost and doors.The land felt alive.“Tell me I’m not imagining this,” I muttered.“You’re not,” Bennett replied. “This place has eyes, even at night.”“That’s comforting,” I replied.When we noticed Getta’s figure at the center of the square, I first thought it was a statue we hadn’t notice
KellerThe last time I felt the bond we shared was three days ago. It wasn’t gone. It was severed. It just felt muted. Snuffed.Like a fire burning that went out abruptly.You could describe it as a heartbeat heard through water. It was distant enough to be painful, yet steady enough to keep hope alive.Bennett paced the room like a caged animal, raking his hair like it were the cause of his entire problems.“Will you stop lying to yourself,” he snapped, dragging his hand through his hair again. “The way you keep saying she’s alive means she’s fine, and we both know that isn’t true.”“I didn’t say she’s fine,” I stated, leaning against the dress and crossing my arms over my chest. “I said she’s alive.”“That sounded like you were insinuating that she’s safe,” Bennett shot back.“It doesn’t,” my voice was flatter than I intended.He froze in his tracks and turned to me, eyes burning with fury and what I couldn’t term as frustration or disappointment.“Why are we still here, then?”“Bec







