Chapter 34: Trapped

So here is the synopsis for Court Of Deception Thyrza, known only to the public by the name Porir, is the most skilled assassin in all of Celycias. Porir will kill whoever you want for the right price. The only thing that can be certain about the mysterious assassin is that if they are given a contract for your life, you are not going to walk away alive. Thyrza is really an orphan who has grown up with throwing knives instead of lovely dolls. Taken into the halls of the Atlynya when she was a baby and raised by the strongest assassin in the world. Now heir to the throne of the Atlynya Guild's empire Thyrza is thrilled with the opportunity to prove herself the perfect killer everyone believes her to be. She has never hesitated to kill anyone she was hired to, but this next contract might just change that. Elinn I had been in here for three days now, trapped in this bubble of darkness and shadows. Demetre and Ari had shoved me in here after taking over my body, making sure that I couldn't take back control. I had been betrayed by the only other people I knew I could rely on, I had nothing left to save me. It was always dark here, there had been no light in the three days I had been here. I could hear the murmuring of voices from the real world, though I couldn't understand a thing they were saying. But talking above the murmur was the memory of what Master had taught to me for so long, the lessons, the pain, the names. All of it meant to make me the perfect girl, a perfect girl who no one in this godforsaken placed wanted. Something ran its fingers down my back and I knew that one of the shadows was going to drag me into a memory. They seemed to feed off of my pain and fear, relish it as if it was the finest wine they had ever had. The memories they dragged me in and out of blurred, some were of Masters torment, others of the times Demetre and Ari insisted we had spent with our mate, and some were of the things Master said my mate had done to me. The lines of reality were beginning to blur and I was struggling to remember what was real. "Elinn, Elinn listen to us we aren't lying to you." The voice belonged to Ari, I could feel her presence outside of the cocoon of darkness that surrounded me. She paws clawed at the wall as if she was trying to reach me but they kept me far from her reach. I didn't understand why she didn't just bring the wall down considering she had helped put me here in the first place. Her voice echoed to me as if I was trapped in the bottom of a long well, I easily ignored her and Demetre whenever they came by attempting to convince me of things. "Elinn, if you would just listen to what we were telling you. If you would try to understand and maybe even let yourself see what is really happening then we could work on this together. It hurts Demetre and me to see you locked up like this," I closed my eyes and hummed the tune to a song the mate who supposedly loved me had once showed me. The song spoke of love lost and found, of a place where lovers need not be afraid of being hunted. The words had drawn me in first, then the meaning, and the lovely rhythms the singer had pulled from the instruments around her had made me pause. I sung it to myself to remind myself that even with the horrors of the world I had at least one good thing, even if it was only one little song. "Please just listen to us!" Ari pleaded and I could have sworn I heard a sob in those words as they floated down to me. As the shadows hangs pulled me into the memorie I heard Demetre whispering to my wolf far above me. "Ari, she isn't ready to listen yet the Aloka will help her to see. They are already assisting her with unraveling the memories for what they truly are though she may not realize it yet. Soon we will let Carter in to help with the remembering but for now she must do it on her own. She must learn to rely on herself before anyone else, she must learn to be strong." I gave into the shadows around me and turned to face whatever memory awaited me in the darkness