She remained on the floor in the memory that was in the mind of the owl, and she was led transfixed.
"I also heard from my spy that you were the maiden for the last ritual of the halo festival." Her father said. And then she saw him smile or what seemed like it.
She had never seen him smile; he had become such a stone that seeing him smile had seemed impossible.
"Keep it up." He said. "Make the wolf fall in love with you. Use your body and offer yourself to him as pleasure every time. You are to learn his weak points and report back to me. After this message, I was hoping you could give me a detailed message about what you have learned about the Crescent pack. It’s now only seven months left to the new moon. Do not, and I repeat, do not fail me!"
And then, with that, he turned around, dismissing her as he would a useless servant, and then she was hauled back to reality.
She gasped as she looked around and saw that she was again in the dungeon.
Once she realized that she was in fact in the cell and that all she had seen was a memory her father had installed in the mind of the wolf, she calmed.
She breathed heavily as if she was recovering from almost drowning, and then she pushed herself back against the wall and gathered her legs around herself.
She hugged herself, and with the effect and trauma of her father still fresh in her mind, she wept to herself.
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Jasmine slept and finally woke up to a strange noise
She didn’t know how long she had slept, but she had finally gone to sleep after she had recorded her message to her father as he had instructed and let the owl deliver it.
However, after she had made the memory and put it into the owl, she looked around and wondered where on earth the owl would leave.
But the owl had come In somehow, so it would leave the same way.
Sleep had come to her, and then she finally slept.
She assumed it was another day, but she was unsure what time.
She heard the noise that had woken her up again, and then she jumped, turning around after remembering that the owl had still been in the room when she had slept.
She looked around quickly as she heard a crooked and old key unlock one of the gates.
But then, the owl was nowhere in sight.
It must have already gone with its message.
The door was opened, and then four guards came out.
She looked up at them, and she wondered if they were ready to take her to execution.
She watched as they came to her bars and unlocked her dungeon cell.
They approached her, and she watched as they took her to her feet.
"Get up, you bitch!" They said.
She felt herself go weak in the knees, but she knew that she dared not fall.
They dragged her out of the way, her chains around her neck, feet, and hand holding her in place.
They were so heavy that she had to struggle to move.
As she went on, an impatient guard pushed her behind, propelling her forward.
She turned around in shock.
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