"What do you mean, she refused?"
Jolay bowed nervously, his brow almost touching the cold tiles that floored the apartment.
"She refused Mistress."
Though the room was freezing, Jolay had started to sweat.
"I need her Jolay, you are aware of this. You know what she carries."
"Yes Mistress."
Olianda fa Triennium smiled at her almost prostrate servant.
"Do not cringe in the shadows, come forward, I will not punish you."
She smiled as he came closer. Quick as a gutter asp she jerked his chin up. Moving her face so close she could see her silver headpiece reflected in his eyes she spoke.
"But if you fail me again, or what She does to you will seem like mercy after I'm through."
In a small corner of his mind Jolay ran through the pictures that were burned onto his retina, of people, though you wouldn't know it, She had killed. Oddly they comforted him. The Mistress could threaten all she pleased. But at the end of the day Jolay knew that if it came to a contest of brutality The Mistress was so far removed from Her that she wasn't even in the court.
Jolay bowed nervously, his brow almost touching the cold tiles that floored the apartment.
"She refused Mistress."
Though the room was freezing, Jolay had started to sweat.
"I need her Jolay, you are aware of this. You know what she carries."
"Yes Mistress."
Olianda fa Triennium smiled at her almost prostrate servant.
"Do not cringe in the shadows, come forward, I will not punish you."
She smiled as he came closer. Quick as a gutter asp she jerked his chin up. Moving her face so close she could see her silver headpiece reflected in his eyes she spoke.
"But if you fail me again, or what She does to you will seem like mercy after I'm through."
In a small corner of his mind Jolay ran through the pictures that were burned onto his retina, of people, though you wouldn't know it, She had killed. Oddly they comforted him. The Mistress could threaten all she pleased. But at the end of the day Jolay knew that if it came to a contest of brutality The Mistress was so far removed from Her that she wasn't even in the court.
