Hellbound With You (WN)

The palace ’s interrogation room was located on the level just above the deepest, darkest part of the palace ’s underground dungeon. This area reeked from all the spells and enchantments that were placed all over the cave-like room. The vampires somehow managed to have a witch cast a spell in this particular room so that no other witches could see what was going on inside it.

Witches were loyal creatures. They would rather kill themselves than betray their kind, especially their queen. That was why it was almost impossible for vampires to force any of them to speak or do something that might hurt their kind.

They managed to make a witch cast a spell on this place simply because that witch was said to have grown up in the castle. The story was that she was only a newborn baby when she was left at the palace steps and one of the princes claimed her. The young witch didn ’t know about her kind and therefore harbored no such loyalty to them. Besides, the prince treated her well and she never had any reason to complain. When she grew a bit stronger, the king at the time had asked her to cast a spell on that place and she did as he asked simply to please the prince, her master. This was a tale from thousands of years ago and until now, no one ever found out what had happened to this witch who had grown up among the vampires.

So knowing that the other witches wouldn ’t be able to eavesdrop, the interrogator didn ’t hold back. Torture had always been the tried and tested way to make someone speak but even with that, they were not sure if they would be able to get anything out of this witch. After all, she was mad enough to replace her heart with someone else ’s just to infiltrate the royal vampire family. But they all needed to find out why. Did she do this voluntarily or was she forced? Why did she go through all that? What was her goal? What was their ultimate goal?

Her loud, harrowing screams echoed inside the dungeon piercing everyone ’s ears until they almost bled.

Zeke lifted his hand to stop the soldier from whipping her while Alex just leaned against the wall, watching her closely.

Zeke pinched her chin to make her look at him as he spoke. ”Woman,do you really not want to live anymore? If you answer my question, I will let you go. That ’s a promise and you should already know vampires don ’t break their promises. ”

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But the witch smiled. ”And you know that witches will never betray our kind. ”

Alex smirked with their witty exchange. He glanced at Zeke, waiting to see if this witty witch could outsmart him.