Jennifer Smith
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I tried to make out my surroundings as I reconnected to the metal thing I hadn't seen in a long time. I involuntarily squinted as I stared at the usual gray wall. Then, when everything was ready, a new torturer I had never seen before came in front of me, pulling a knife from behind my back. "Hello." It was a plain-looking dwarf with a smiling face, a woman. The smiling faces were the worst. When she raised my head, bringing the knife close to my chin, she looked me in the eyes. Her smile…-
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I held my breath, didn't move a muscle, and just stood where I was. The ground shook like an earthquake. An intense, suffocating pressure spread through the atmosphere. I narrowed my eyes and hid my mana, my being. I didn't come out from behind the stone I was hiding behind, I didn't even take my eyes off where I was looking. 'Wait a little longer, Adrian.' If I hadn't restrained myself, I would have started shaking from breathlessness, from stress. Still, when my life is at stake... There was…
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Over and over again. Every minute, every hour, every day. In different ways, in different methods. Yet that wasn't the worst of it. The worst was the addiction. They made me take it thrice a day at first, but now I could take it once every two days. During the first period, my whole body would start shaking. Then I would start to suffer from thirst. I would feel like my organs were being squeezed. Then I would feel my stomach start to burn, and drinking anything other than the drug would…
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Breaking was not the only thing that happened to my fingers. Slowly, one by one, starting from the outermost part, he tore off all my fingers. He peeled off their skin, and as my cries echoed in the room, I never gave him what he wanted. Not that I didn't, I couldn't. How long has it been since I stopped holding back my tears? How long since I started screaming from the pain? I didn't know, yet I tried to at least keep my consciousness in one piece while it was happening. It was one thing, at…
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"Wake up." My eyelids slowly opened, then I lifted my head slightly as my vision slowly became clearer. Again, I was in a room, another room with gray walls. The only difference... This room was more spacious. And in front of me was a table, or rather a metal thing that looked like a table. I was in a chair, my hands were tied behind my back with handcuffs. I looked across the table and saw someone sitting there, just like me. He was a dwarf, except he was not bound or restrained like me. He…
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Darkness. An endless darkness. One I've never seen before, never felt before. No... I remember... I remember this feeling. I found myself in such darkness before, long before. It was a void where I couldn't feel my body, I couldn't feel time, I couldn't see or hear anything. When I came here before, I was scared. I was afraid I would go crazy, I was afraid I would lose my own self. And now... Nothing. What I feel inside me is literally nothing. Sadness, happiness, anger, all kinds of…
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I kept thinking about the vision I had seen over and over again. A dark ghost, held captive in a palace, imprisoned, with a tiny purple flame burning inside... I know that the visions that seers see can be meaningful or meaningless, that's what it says in the description of the gift, but... What does that mean? "Why didn't you come to class yesterday?" I tried to push the vision out of my mind, then turned to Paul. "I was sick, I overslept." Paul paused, looking thoughtful for a brief…
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I kept running, and I looked at the Caleuche as I did so, the huge machine of destruction that was now on the ground. The majestic, dark slaughter ship was right in front of us. It was massive, covering a really big area, and it was busy recovering the energy it had used to fly. Apart from that, its front was facing me at a diagonal angle. I was being watched, everyone on that ship was looking at me right now. I directed my armor to my legs. Then a certain amount of the armor, which slid over my…
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When Ezareth disappeared with tremendous speed, literally teleporting, I did everything I could to see her attack. Because I knew that this was her last attack, that she would make it count, and therefore she would never expect me to strike back. It was perhaps the only chance I had. I gave everything I had to this moment. My eyes bled, more blood poured out of my mouth and nose. I felt a moment of intense strength flooding my body, my muscles. But then... in the middle of it all... I felt…
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I turned back to the door, confident that I was going to go out, but I didn't do it, or rather I couldn't. As I turned back to the door, a figure slowly materialized in front of my eyes, literally out of the shadows. I saw brown eyes fading to red, followed by black hair as coal-black as mine. Then a worn-out light armor. "Ezareth." Another smile appeared on my face, and the door behind me rattled again. This time more violently than before. "You survived." She raised her eyes and waited for…
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