The Devil's Broken Doll
The motion was abrupt, irritated, stripped of ceremony.
The chains flared white-hot for a heartbeat, then went slack. The soul sagged, hooks creaking, ember guttering down to a meagre, ugly glow. Not spent, not erased—he wasn’t done with it yet. Punishment was never meant to be merciful. It was meant to linger. He let it hang there, mind cracked open and raw, as a warning to every other ember in the room. The sight of it—swaying slightly in the furnace-breath, jaw hanging loose—drew a hush of hungry satisfaction from the watching demons.
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