Life returns to normal in the following months except for the nightmares plaguing her dreams. Night after night she can feel the cold blade cutting into her, the Altmer's hand touching her, the violation of her body. She can hear herself scream and her screams turn into someone else's.
She wakes with a start, the Sanctuary is filled with the sound of fighting and screams. Her bedroom door burst open and an Elven soldier grabs her from her bed, dragging her behind him and throwing her at the feet of her nightmare.
"Did you think you could deceive me so easily? Or did you enjoy the time we spent together?" Ondolemar bends down and fisted her to pull her to her feet.
"You made me torture the wrong person and then I had to kill him. Not that I mind having a Nord at my mercy, but you wasted my time."
He turns to the soldiers, "Tie everyone down. I will have the name!" He pulls Astrid to a chair stepping over the bodies of her Sisters and Brothers.
Babette is hissing while they tie her to a chair, her mouth stained with blood. She grins at Astrid, "I had me some Elven blood." The soldier hits her with the hilt of his sword in the face and Astrid can hear bones breaking.
She looks over her shoulder, Festus lies on the floor, blood pooling under him his breath laboured. Nazir and Ra'Rava are both tied to a chair. Only five members alive out of twenty and for how long?
Ondolemar cuts her tunic and the fabric pools around her waist, leaving her upper body naked. He pulls a chair closer and pushes her legs open to moving as close as possible to her. "You thought you can outsmart me, but I know where your family is. Are you going to give me a name or am I going to start cutting?"
Astrid feels the scalpel pressing into her ribs under her breast and cries out as the blade draws blood. "I send you the name that was given to me…." As the blade strikes bone.
"Who gave you the name?" Astrid lowers her eyes but not before Ondolemar saw her quick look towards Ra'Rava. He shoves his chair back. "Bring me the fucking cat."
Astrid closes her eyes and wishes she can cover her ears as the first scream escapes Ra'Rava's lips. It felt like hours of listening to the Khajiit's pleading and screams. "There was no Dark Sacrament. It was me, I want you dead." Uttered with a voice, raw from the screams.
Ondolemar plunges the scalpel into the Khajiit's stomach, "Why do you want me dead"
Ra'Rava lifts his head, blood bubbling from his lips. "I have been looking for you for ten years. You killed my whole family in Elsweyr after my father spoke out against your methods of gaining information. I will see you in Oblivion." He spits the Altmer in the face as he takes his last breath.
Ondolemar wipes the blood from his face, "I remember his family. The week I spend with them is quite memorable."
He kneels next to Astrid, "Your family and friends are safe. You will be safe, as long as you work for me. And I suggest getting a new Sanctuary closer to The Reach."
Babette helps Festus into a chair after she healed his wounds. Nazir kicks the body of Ra'Rava, "Coward! You wanted the fucking Altmer dead and then you send Astrid to do the killing. If I knew it was you, I would have killed you and sent your head to Markarth."
They moved the bodies to the ice cavern at the end of the cave system before packing everything they can carry. "I know of a place close to Falkreath. Two hundred years ago the Dark Brotherhood had two Sanctuaries when there were many members." Babette says as they take the road to Dawnstar.