Ryonna's Trials: Novella 1 (Universe in Flames Book 20) by Kallias Christian

Author:Kallias, Christian [Kallias, Christian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-02-27T18:30:00+00:00

C H A P T E R

VIII

Pain radiated through Ryonna’s body. Her eyelids were heavy, and she had to force her eyes open.

What happened?

It took a while for her eyes to adapt to the room and for her brain to remember where she was and what she had been doing. Then it hit her. A jolt of adrenaline made her aware of her surroundings. She was at Hens Raknod’s house. She was being held vertically by four hovering devices that held her limbs away from her body. She tried moving her arms closer but they didn’t budge.

“Ah, you’re awake. I prefer it that way,” said a voice on her left.

Hens was standing near a table on which many blades of all sizes and shapes were laid. Then she saw blood on the floor beneath her.

A torture chamber? How ironic, thought Ryonna. For once she had tried to get information without using force, and she had been captured by someone who actually enjoyed torture. The place smelled foul.

“What is this? Why am I being restrained?”

“It’s been a while since I’ve had the opportunity to do this.”

“And what is this exactly?”

“You could call it a hobby.”

“You’re sick!”

“I’ve been told before, usually by people who didn’t have much time left to live.”

“You do realize I’m gonna kill you!”

“I think you have our positions reversed. This is a soundproof room, so feel free to cry for help if it tickles your fancy. Though I can see in your eyes that you’re not really afraid.”

“I’m not.”

“You should be. What comes next isn’t going to be pleasant.”

Ryonna had no doubts about that, but she didn’t intend to let herself be butchered by this sack of shit. She tried to move all her muscles at once but was rewarded with electric shocks.

“There’s no escaping these bonds. They’re my own design. You see, the more you struggle the more pain you receive.”

“Tell me how to escape Hellstar!”

“You’re in no position to bargain, but seeing that you won’t talk to a soul after I’m done with you, I guess I could tell you how to escape.”

Yes, do that, you creep!

“I’m listening.”

“Hellstar is mostly guarded by automated sentries and drones. There are a few guards around, but most of it is automated. Machines are so much more reliable than living beings. I once feared that if I was caught smuggling contraband for Grolax, I could end up a prisoner there, so I made sure I could get my hands on a powerful explosive to blast the main doors open if my station there changed.”

“So you hid a bomb?”

“It’s not that simple,” said Hens, picking up a dented blade from the table and approaching Ryonna. “You see, because everything is checked with double and sometimes triple layers of security, I simply replaced a piece inside the decontamination chamber. It’s a room that every new prisoner has to pass through. I hid some military grade quadrinium in there. It’s a small enough quantity, but it’s very, very dense. If I ever got sent there, I would recover that piece and manufacture a bomb to escape.

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