Dark Empathy by Archibald Bradford

Author:Archibald Bradford [Bradford, Archibald]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, Erotica
Published: 2019-04-16T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22:

Trials

Chained against the wall of the bunker, Yana was in a bad mood.

Stalking before her was Jonathan Pym, and the lunatic was ranting as he tried to justify his actions.

“-you see? The Aegis protects humans more than monsters! They hand out licenses for men to enslave these poor girls!”

He’d been at it for only a few minutes that morning, but Yana was already fed up.

She gave a snort of derision.

“You’re a fool. The overwhelming majority of crimes committed against monster girls are by people without proper licenses from the Aegis.”

Jonathan clutched at his hair in consternation.

“No, no, NO! That is wrong! You are just another poor girl duped by a corrupt organization!”

The warleader gave him a look of contempt.

“Says the madman abducting bonded monsters from their families.”

Jonathan’s eyes boggled at her words.

“We’re not abducting anyone! We’re freeing slaves!”

The Amazon warrior looked to the Antlions all around her.

“Funny, all I see here are more slaves.”

The dark eyed girls wore placid expressions on their faces as she spoke.

Following her gaze, Jonathan shook his head again.

“Soon you’ll understand, you’ll stand with them and help us. And when it’s over, I promise you: you’ll awaken to a better world, one where you are truly free.”

Her eyes narrowed and she raised her chin proudly.

“When this is over, I will kill you, Jonathan Pym. I have endured far worse than whatever one feeble coward of a man such as you can inflict upon me. Your dark whore was right, you will never break my mind.”

“You will thank me one day for-”

She turned away before he finished, her eyes going distant, as if he were gone from the world already, or simply unworthy of her notice.

“I will hear no more of your words. You are Neucta, and your ancestors are ashamed of you.”

He pursed his lips and nervously fingered the platinum-blue anklet containing her heartstone. Seeing him holding it made her heart burn with rage, but she harnessed it, as a warrior should; tempering and focusing it within herself.

After several seconds he sighed and drew himself up before her.

“Then I suppose we’d better begin.”

Every muscle in her body tensed up as she steeled herself against whatever he intended to do.

His eyes became unfocused and drifted closed, then… nothing happened.

They stayed like that for ten minutes, she had no idea what he was even doing, she didn’t feel any different.

But gradually as she waited her thoughts darkened, pessimism and anxiety seeping into her mind as she dwelled on mistakes from her past: Juni being burned, taking her husband’s eye, the death of Kar, shouting at Milly…

Failures.

She was a failure, a failure as a warleader, as a warrior period.

She drew in a sharp breath and rapidly shook her head from side to side in a vain attempt to cast away these thoughts clinging to her mind like cobwebs.

Then her eyes widened, and she barked out a harsh laugh.

“Is this it? Is this what you intend? To show me things I know already?”

She spat at him, the spittle striking his cheek and making him flinch as his eyes flew open.

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