I fled to my room, followed by Koschei who wouldn't stop chasing me through the corridors.

I had slammed the door shut in Koschei's face but he entered right after me nonetheless.

I crawled under my bed and crouched into the furthest corner; I shivered all over and had a hard time gasping for air.

I was too scared to even move a muscle.

Koschei had offended Ms Reprics. And I knew on whom she would vent her spleen.

Koschei searched through the scattered pages in my room and whirled those which seemed to annoy him through the air; he rummaged around his unloved belongings before turning around with something in his hands.

"Don't hide from me" he smirked and knelt down in front of my bed. I pressed my back against the cold wall and trembled with fear.

Koschei's head appeared in front of mine.

"I always know where you're hiding."

"Why don't you just go and take the blame for this yourself?" I snapped and pushed Koschei's face aside. I curled up into a foetal position before daring to whimper quietly. "Why can't you leave me alone?"

Koschei sighed and reached under my bed. He grabbed me by one shoulder and protruded my cold and shivering body, no matter how much resistance I offered.

Koschei simply shook his head and managed to get me into a kneeling position.

I glared at him, my eyes were filled with hatred and averseness; but Koschei could sense my desperation.

"Leave me alone, Koschei!" I yelled at him "Leave me alone!"

"I promised you that I'd never leave your side" explained Koschei and grabbed my shoulders again.

"But I don't want to you stay by my side anymore" I became more and more uneasy; Koschei's eyes flickered, their colours changing from warm amber into glistening gold.

His instincts arose; the void consumed him.

"Don't you understand that, Koschei? I don't want you anymore! I don't want you!"

"Take off your clothes" ordered Koschei.

"Lock the door" I was dumbfounded but managed to retort those words instantly. I hoped that I would thereby achieve to distract Koschei.

It was bad enough trying to fight Koschei off. But the void...

I folded my arms after Koschei had hauled me onto my bed. I hid my bruised ankles under the covers. "I don't want Ms Reprics to see me ever again."

"Well, then it's probably no good hiding in your room for she will suspect you here" replied Koschei and started pulling on my garment. I shoved his hands away before Koschei slapped me in the face.
I pressed my hand against my cheek; I stared at him aghast.

"I said take off your clothes" repeated Koschei and undressed me impatiently; Koschei pulled on my garment, and thereby on my wrists, causing me to yelp.

"Koschei let go off me!" I yelled and reached for his neck, trying to suffocate or at least hurt him. Koschei pushed my hands aside as if I wasn't even offering resistance, as if he wouldn't even feel me touching him.

I wrapped my arms around his chest and dug my nails into his back; Koschei started groaning.

"Koschei, I don't want this!"

I felt the void rinsing through my mind again but managed to keep it off by reciting the words I remembered, the words I couldn't forget.

Thy words shall not be heard...

Thy words won't be overheard...

Koschei fixed me on the bed and protruded an apple. He smiled before pressing it against my naked skin and moving it up and down on my thighs.

"It smells a lot better afterwards" he explained as I looked away. "Really, Theta. It's a lot tastier."

"You're disgusting" I mumbled and lay beneath him motionless.

He rubbed the apple in his hand against my inner thighs, ranging it from my knees to the head of my thighbones. I pushed his hands aside as soon as he started trailing the apple up to my crotch.

"Stop it Koschei!" I hissed "Just stop it!"

Koschei popped his head to one side as if giving my plea some thought. In the end he shrugged.

"You can't tell me that it tastes better afterwards if you rub it against that part of my body" I snarled and folded my arms above my chest.

"Oh, it does, Theta" smiled Koschei "it really does. There's something about you... Something about the scent of your body... this tang..." Koschei closed his eyes while breathing in deeply; he lowered his head and sucked in deeply, sniffing and nosing my body while breathing out. His mouth was slightly ajar; I could hear him chuckle.

"Oh, Theta..." he moaned quietly "You don't even know... you don't even want to know..."

"Get off me for any God's sake!" I yelled and drummed my fists on Koschei's chest "I hate you, Koschei! I hate it when you're like that."

"I'm just me" replied Koschei "And you are quite tense. You should relax. You should calm down."
"Then go away!" I yelled at him and wanted to arise from my bed; Koschei pushed me back onto it before reaching for my neck. His fingers stroked the back of my head before paving their way to go deeper; Koschei petted my neck while working his way down my spine. I rolled my head into the nape of my neck and sighed. I tried to breathe out deeply without becoming too uneasy.

"Koschei what are you doing?" I asked; I was at least a bit unsettled.

I didn't trust Koschei anymore. I couldn't trust him.

I knew that I couldn't trust him anymore, not after what he'd done to me!
And yet I wouldn't just abandon him, I wouldn't simply run away and leave him.

I couldn't do it.

I was too weak; I couldn't be strong minded. I couldn't run.

I couldn't run from him.

I was stupid. I was too stupid to just leave him be, to simply try to forget him, make him part of my past, just abandon the probably worst part of my childhood.

I simply couldn't.

Koschei wouldn't stop fondling my neck.

"Theta, you're tensed up again" mumbled Koschei into my ear and stroked my neck with intensifying force "Just relax."

"I can't relax as long as you're around me!" I snapped.

Koschei chuckled. "Then you should better get used to feeling tensed, I suppose" concluded Koschei and pressed me down onto the mattress.

I closed my legs unintentionally; Koschei raised a smile and commented my movement with a small derisive laugh.

"Still you need to be tethered up?" he asked and chuckled.

Koschei fixed me on the bed with one hand while his eyes scanned his belonging, which were still scattered all over the floor.

"I knew that I'd had one of those... what do you call them again? Long things, natural or synthetic fibre, pretty durable, your father used to tie your legs together with them and you wouldn't stop picking on your wounds because these things chafed against your skin, what are they called?"

I clutched at Koschei's arms while having a hard time breathing. Koschei's hand trailed down to increase its pressure on my swollen stomach, causing me to yelp in pain.
"Theta, you're not very much focused" hissed Koschei.

"Get your hands off me!" I whimpered and wreathed beneath his hand.

"Theta, what are them things called?"

I gasped for air and panted.

"These things... you call them ropes..."

"Ropes, of course" Koschei chuckled again "How could I ever forget that?"

"Because you're mad, Koschei!" I screamed at him "You're mad! And now get off me!"

It seemed as if Koschei got a bit annoyed by watching me writhing and wheezing beneath him; but he wanted to make sure that I would remain in the preferred position.

Therefore he arose quietly and knelt above me, pressing his knees against my ribcage and screwed me down. I couldn't start screaming before Koschei had placed a hand across my face.

"You got that all wrong, Theta" Koschei smirked.

I felt his presence. I felt his presence inside of me, whirling through my head like the leaking void.

"Don't try shaking it off" Koschei went on "It's a hopeless struggle for freedom. You can only be free through the void. The void is freedom."

"mewdwess" I mumbled while trying to bite down on Koschei's fingers.

"I'm sorry, I'm afraid I didn't quite catch that" Koschei frowned. I spat out his hand.

"Madness!" I repeated "You don't gain freedom, you gain madness through the void!"

"It's the same thing, isn't it?" asked Koschei mockingly "after all, I'm mad. And I can do whatever I want. Do you see me getting beaten up or picked at by Ms Reprics? Do you see me justifying myself in front of the headmaster?" I stared at the ceiling; Koschei thrust his pelvis against mine and started restlessly moving against my bulged abdomen.

"No" he kept on talking while penetrating my half naked body "And you know why? Because I have my freedom. Because they wouldn't dare to take it away from me." He smirked again while staring down at me; still I was evading his gaze.

"Face it, Theta" he chuckled "The void grants you freedom."

I mumbled something barely audible and dug my nails into Koschei's thighs as he humped me with increasing force; a muted moan was all he had to reply.

I concentrated on keeping him out of my head when he started talking.

"No, Theta, you got that all wrong. Your father was a fine man... but he didn't tell you to close your legs without letting anyone come between them... you can't remember it, right? Well, in fact you can't remember it right, right?" Koschei chuckled again.

He leaned forward with both of his hands pressing against my swollen stomach. I groaned and bit down on my lower lip.

With my father's voice in my head he whispered in my ear.

"Close your legs and don't let anyone cum between them. Except for me."

My jaw dropped as I opened my eyes wide.

I stared at Koschei with disbelieving eyes and did what was best to do:
I didn't think.

Without having anything to reply I simply slapped him in the face.

Koschei flinched and tumbled backwards; I wouldn't miss that chance and jumped out of the bed.

"You're disgusting!" I shouted as I was already halfway through the door.

"I hate you!"