The Bess
Part 2
Cara ordered to bring food to the girl. A slave came with a tureen of pea soup. It was hot and steam rose from the tureen. They didn't give the child a spoon or anything to eat the soup. Aisha decided to drink it from the bowl but Cara stopped her. She put the tureen on the ground.
"You'll eat like a dog." She commanded.
"I can't!" The girl refused to obey and Cara boxed her ear.
"You'll eat like a dog or you won't eat at all!" hissed the Mord'Sith.
Aisha scowled but she was very hungry. She looked at soup and laid on the floor, because the bowl was too low to eat on all fours. The girl put her elbows on the ground and started to sip the soup from tureen's brim. It was hot and she burned her lips, but she was too hungry to stop. This food was the first she had in two days.
"What you have to tell me?" Cara demanded kicking her prey.
"Thank you, Mistress Cara." Aisha mumbled.
"Give her a bath. She stinks." She ordered Alina and Triana then left the room.
An hour later Alina ran in the audience chamber where Cara was talking to a general. She tried to look cold as a Mord'Sith but Cara saw that Alina seemed too agitated. She knew how to read sisters of the agiel. She sent the general away giving him some kind of recommendation and turned to Alina.
"Speak!" She ordered.
"Cara, she killed the slave. We had to kill her, she was out of control." Alina reported "We have to use our agiels to calm her down."
"To calm who?" Cara asked in a low voice.
"Aisha, she attacked the slave, who was going to bathe her. She tore her throat with one bite. We couldn't stop the bleeding. Girl tore her artery, poor Gwen bleed to death." She told the head of the Mord'Sith on their way to bathing room for slaves.
Cara entered the room and saw an old woman in a puddle of blood lying on the floor and a young girl's dead body not far from the woman. Bruises on her legs and face told the Mord'Sith that they were caused by agiels. The child's mouth was covered with woman's blood as well as her simple, dirty dress.
"What did she do?" Cara asked Triana looking at the bodies lying on the floor.
"She attacked Gwen. I don't know what happened. I was in a passage when I heard a scream. Alina was with them all the time." She told her boss.
"What did Gwen do when Aisha attacked her?" Cold blue eyes were piercing Alina's face.
"She asked her to strip down. The girl refused to do so. I used my agiel to make her do what she was asked for. When I took the agiel away she attacked Gwen like she was a beast or something. I used my agiel again, but it didn't help much. Together with Triana we tried to get her away from Gwen. She turned to attack me but I stopped her heart with my weapon." Alina explained the situation.
"You want to tell me, that two Mord'Siths can't control a child?" Cara faced both sisters with a sullen grin.
"She's not a child. She's some kind of a beasty creature. Look at Gwen's throat. Can you bite a person to tear her carotid? She did it in seconds." Triana pointed to the wound on the woman's throat.
"Strip her down." Cara ordered.
"What for? She's dead. We can bring her to life with a Breath of Life but I'm not sure we have to do that." Triana insisted.
"Take off her clothes. I want to see why she didn't want to show us." Cara repeated her order.
Alina tore apart the girl's dress. The child's body was covered with bruises, wounds and scratches. Cara saw it before none of three women gasped or hesitated while looking at the dead girl's body. Her breasts didn't develop yet but still you wanted to touch that white marble skin. It seemed as if it was made of velvet even with bruises and scratches. Her white hair covered in blood hid a part of her body.
"Turn her over." The head of Mord'Sith commanded.
She looked at girl's back and something attracted Cara's attention. She squatted and pulled child's panties down on an inch. She saw a scar at coccyx. It was cauterized before but still the tailbone protruded on a centimeter. Cara turned the girl and started to examine girl's head with her hands. She touched and suddenly felt two little knobs. A man couldn't notice them under that white curly hair. The examination of the girl's body made Cara think. She was really surprised by the discoveries she found on the body.
"Tell Leyla to wash the body. Chain Aisha to the rack, revive her with the Breath of Life and lock the room. Guard her outside the room. I need to talk to her dad." Cara ordered. Alina and Triana exchanged glances but executed her order.
Cara went into the vault. She saw a fat dirty man sitting on the floor eating pottage. When she entered his cell he put the bowl down and crawled to his mistress. Cara run her hand over his bald spot and her fingers clasped his fat neck. She pressed harder and man cried.
"Please, don't hurt me, Mistress Cara. I'll do anything for you." He whined looking at Cara with servility.
"Sedrick, tell me. Is Aisha your daughter?" She asked looking down at his filthy disgusting form.
"Yes, Mistress Cara. She's mine one and only." He answered caressing her leg.
She hit him hard across the face with her gloved hand: "Tell me the truth or I make you do it." She took her agiel and stopped her hand in an inch from his face. He pulled aside in horror.
"No, no. I lied. She isn't my daughter. My wife and I couldn't have children for a long time. When one day a woman came in the tavern and gave us the baby my wife was on top of the world. She gave us money and told to raise the kid as our own. We did so." The man explained.
"Describe me the woman." Cara demanded.
"She was a middle-aged woman, tall, with long dark hair and cold grey eyes. She had thin lips and her face. I can't explain but her eyes were stern and at the same time calm as yours are." Mr. Jones told the story.
"Snake." Cara thought to herself. "Where is your wife?" Cara asked the man.
"She died five years ago. She loved Aisha with all her heart but I love her too. I love her very much. She's my treasure." He continued and rubbed his hands.
These words alerted the head of the Mord'Siths. She threw man's head back and threatened him with the agiel: "Did you rape your daughter?"
"Rape? No, no, no one raped her. I'll kill anybody, who encroaches on my treasure." He said smiling evilly.
"Why then she's so afraid to take off her clothes?" Cara demanded sternly.
"Aisha? She has never been afraid of this." He boasted. Cara poked him with her agiel. The man screamed in pain.
"What did you do to her? And don't lie to me, 'cause I'm in a bad mood today!" She poked him again.
"I sold her. I've made a glass cylinder with holes where you could put a hand and caress the person in it. I did it for her, for my treasure. I like to touch her. She is so beautiful, so I decided to give others the pleasure to touch that beauty. I made the cylinder and put Aisha naked inside. Those, who paid, could shove their hands and caress her. She liked it. She always liked it so much. They didn't do any harm to her. She's still a virgin. " His eyes sparkled with desire.
Cara smashed him against the wall. She hit his head against the wall until he fell unconscious to the ground. She broke his jaw, his nose. The man was covered in blood. She called Berdine and Raina and told them to torture him slowly and painfully to death. Then she went to the meeting hall and told the Mord'Siths to gather there. They quickly followed the order.
"Who recruited Aisha?" She asked her agiel sisters.
Rikka made a step forward: "I did."
Cara approached and smacked the Mord'Sith in the face. Rikka shook but didn't fall down. She touched her bruised lips and saw blood on her brown gloved hand.
"How could you take the girl? Jones isn't her father! How can I finish the education now?!" Cara shouted at Rikka.
"But everybody in the village swore he was her father." Rikka justified.
"You've made a mistake! Now I have to make her as a slave, because you didn't find time to check her story. She has already killed Gwen. If slaughtering continues, you'll be the one responsible!" Cara looked Rikka right in the eyes. "Pray the Creator to hold the girl in leash or you'll be the first whom she kills."
Cara went to one of the torture rooms. Triana and Alina stood on guard near the room where Aisha lied on the rack.
"How has she been doing all the time you were here?" Cara asked sisters.
"I think we should kill her." Triana told her boss. "She wasn't behaving as a child. She behaved like a beast."
"She scratched the boards of the rack with her nails and she screamed, not screamed, howled like an evil spirit trying to get free. She stopped half an hour ago. This is not a girl." Alina supported Triana's words.
"Open the door!" Cara commanded. They opened it and wanted to follow their boss, but she stopped them, entered the room and closed the door.
Aisha was sleeping chained to the rack. She was only in her panties. Cara saw little wood chips under girl's white hands. She scratched fingers to blood. The child was sweating and curly locks stuck to her forehead. Cara gently took sweaty hair away. Aisha opened her eyes. They changed their color. The light of torch reflected in girl's eyes as if her eyes were made of light bluish water. Cara even saw ripples in them. The girl looked at the Mord'Sith.
"Would you kill your father?" Cara asked the kid.
"With pleasure, Mistress Cara." was the answer.
"If he dies, nobody will take care of you." She told the girl.
"It doesn't matter. Don't revive me again and I'll be with my mom forever." Aisha replied.
"I don't want to torture you anymore. You're free or you can stay and serve me, it's your choice." Cara made an offer.
"I serve Mistress Cara." The child responded.
Cara released the girl.
To be continued…
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