Chapter Thirteen:

"Why did you come to London?" I stared at him, the blade held weightless in his hand, I understood there magic was engraved in it and it would hurt much more than the one before it. Will stroke out with the blade fast, that for a human it would have been a blur; I dug my palms into the metal cuffs to keep myself from reacting on instinct and froze every counter-attack inside my racing mind as his blade cut thinly across my neckline but drew blood, enough for its to magic to work its way through my veins.

I breathed in on instinct and clenched my hands onto the cuffs, ignoring the counter-attacks that flew in my mind to now protect my body from the magic.

"This is what you deserve, this is your punishment, and you should not have run away Praeda." Dominus stroked my check soothingly as I gasped and sobbed into his shirt from the onslaught of varies objects continuously stabbing and prodding me.

"I-I…" I couldn't even get the words out; my lungs blazed to life and assaulted my body for air every time I spoke.

"I know, don't talk it will all be over soon and pain makes the heart stronger and the soul colder."

I didn't want my soul to turn cold. Don't Argue! My present day self snapped at the girl cowering into Dominus' clothes.

I blinked rapidly at my surroundings surprised to find that Will's tools were already halfway done and over with, blood soiled on each of them. As soon as I regained my bearings, I regained the missed out pain. My hands were still clutched onto the cuffs; my face was slacked with blood and sweat. My arms were littered with long and short already healing cuts running in varies directions; they would defiantly scare; at least he hadn't made it to my legs yet.

I slammed my back hard against the wall to distract my thoughts and caught wills attention as he briefly glanced back, a hollow and emotionless warrior, and his face sweaty and slacked with my blood as while. His white long sleeve dress shirt rolled up to his forearms, exposing his silver tattoos and firm forearms.

He turned halfway toward and I eased into what was about to happen. His left arm extended back and with a blur of movement a large and wide blade slit through the air aiming toward my thigh. Without thinking I twisted the air around the knife and with flaring eyes I brought it clattering to the floor, the sound echoing in the room.

"Oh!" I gasped and released my grip of the cuffs forgetting I was actually still cuffed to the wall and I leapt gracefully down off my ledge bringing my whole body out sharply to pick up the blade only have my entire body erupt in a fire-y pain as it snapped back, slamming into the wall, rattling my teeth with such a force that I thought surely all my teeth would just slip right out. I groaned just slightly, the only sound I had made since I this process had started. "Right, your attached to a stone wall Tessa, nice going." I grumbled blowing the now fallen stray hairs out of my eyes.

I looked up at Will's shocked face and felt bad "Sorry about the blade, instinct." I shrugged, my nose twitching as the pain hit me like a ton of bricks again. First I pointed my wrist downward so that the pain of the metal would keep my instincts at bay and then I pulled the air around the blade and lifted it up in the air, I kept my eyes on his as I slowly moved the blade, hilt towards him, towards the table again.

Suspended in the air I smiled just slightly at his confuses, dumbfounded, and speechless face. I breathed in deeply then exhaled fast as the blade flew through the air and landed deeply in my thigh exactly where it was supposed to land before I stopped it.

My eyes rolled back in my head and I slammed myself back into the wall then gripped the metal cuffs and pulled myself up by sheer determination and upper body strength I wrapped my palms back around the cuffs groaning a little louder, enough for the two guards to come inside. "What exactly are-

The younger Nephlium stopped when he saw me, holding myself up by hands, my eyes closed at ease; my bloody and still bleeding arms, neck, and face dripping silently onto the floor, my feet suspended in the air about four feet above the ground completely slaked as if I was dead. The only give away that I wasn't were my muscles in my forearms as they stretched and bulged under the pressure it took to keep me holding myself up.

I slowly opened my glowing eyes and stared at the three dumbfounded Nephliums as they stared at me in a combination of, shock, awe, fear, and respect.

"Go get Charlotte and the Enclave, now!" Will's dead monotone voice sounded through the cell as the other two guards scrambled out of the room. He turned his back to me his emotions covered again and twirled a knife around his hand looking confident and in his zone.

"Lets try this again." This time I did nothing, except for digging my palm further into the metal and wrapped my fingers more tightly around cuff.