She quivered in fear, tied to a flimsy metal chair that she could break with a single finger were she not bound so tightly. Her hands were set on the table in front of her, forced down by the bindings around her wrists.
"Do you know why I chose this room, little red?" The soft, hazy voice of a cinder fall wafted through the room, little more than a whisper, but the only other sound being Ruby's heavy breathing and the rattle of her metal seat. "It's my favorite room in the whole place…" Cinder spoke sweetly, only her smile showing her sadistic intentions. A blade formed in her hands, with the appearance of glass and burning hot to the touch. "Because the louder the noise is in here, the less you can hear it…" she punctuated her sentence by dropping the dagger in between two of Ruby's fingers; the thumb and pointer finger of her left hand, to be precise. The fingers that, as a huntress, Ruby would arguably need the most.
"So tell me, Rose… Where can I find the fall maiden?" Ruby's eyes met Cinder's, showing fear, with a tinge of a darker emotion. Hate? No, it felt more like… disgust.
"I-I won't tell you, Cinder… No matter what you do to me…" Both of them had expected it would come to this. A standoff; but with Cinder holding the reins, she would break Ruby beyond recognition before sending her to gehena…
"It sounds like you don't want to obey me, Ruby… And do you know what I do when my subjects don't obey me?" She leaned in, her hot breath sending shivers of fear through the girl. "I punish them…" Cinder's teeth sunk into the shell of her ear, grinding them until what was left of her ear was hanging off by the earlobe.
Ruby's face was one of complete agony, her mouth opened as if to release a scream, but all sound was muted coming from her mouth. The blood dripping from her ear persisted several minutes after she had stopped screaming (or attempting to), tormenting her nearly as much as the amused look Cinder gave her every time she met her gaze.
"Are you ready to talk yet, Rose? Or am I going to have to paint these walls red with your blood…" Ruby gulped, knowing that Cinder would do whatever she pleased; this was a woman with no morals, no regrets, and no inhibitions. She doubted she would sleep at all for the next week.