A/N: I guess it's a two chapter morning.

Necrolai scoffed at Udonna's attempt to be civil. The vampire queen wasn't a very civil person.

"I've brought you a pomegranate," she said mockingly. She tossed it through the entry way.

Udonna caught it but didn't eat it. She knew better. She had told Koragg the curse of pomegranates back when Imperious had tried to condemn her to the Underworld.

"Aren't you going to eat it? You must be hungry." Her voice was filled with hatred and malice. The white sorceress had no place her, and certainly not when Koragg was becoming weaker (softer) because of her.

"I have no desire to tie myself to this place," Udonna stated plainly.

"Why not? You're never going to leave here."

A sinking feeling overcame Udonna, a false hopelessness spreading across her mind.

"You don't know that," Udonna combated.

Necrolai again scoffed. "Do you really think your pesky rangers will save you? You're trapped here and they're not faring too well. They're growing tired, weaker, weary. I don't know how much more they can take."

"Don't try to dishearten me," Udonna said with a strength. "The rangers are capable of anything."

"I won't try to break that illusion you have. Just know this: when we defeat them, and we have no more use for you, I will have a say in what happens to you. And depending on my mood, you will either die, or…"

"Or?" Udonna didn't know what would be worse than death.

"Or I turn you into a minion for me. I'll turn your rangers first, or perhaps I'll make them watch as I turn you."

"You're sick."

"I know how to strike your heart. You may have weakened our greatest warrior, but I will see to it that his weakness is only a temporary lapse. As much as I dislike him, he is formidable."

"I would agree," Udonna said without meaning to.

"Don't try to deny that you've grown soft for him. I used to hear you curse to yourself about being trapped down in the Underworld. I don't get the pleasure of listening to your hushed voice, hurling insults at your situation. It's almost a shame, really."

The sorceress wasn't sure what to say at that. She didn't like either what the vampire was saying about her growing ease around Koragg or that Necrolai knew Udonna's patterns and even paid attention. She thought no one could hear her.

"You wouldn't survive an attempt at escape."

"I'm not planning one."

"I know you will eventually. And when that happens, Imperious will get the satisfaction of condemning you to some fate. Hopefully as my slave but you never know."

Udonna had a chill run up her body. It went through her arms mostly, which were fidgeting with a scrap of her blouse.

"Thank you for that warning?"

"It's a prophecy."

"And if I don't plan to escape?"

Necrolai grinned in the sickest way, twisting a knot in Udonna's nervousness.

"Then Imperious will get to test his newest theory."