Chapter 14: Just don’t break him
Cass didn't remember going to sleep, nor the dreams that he had either. When he opened his eyes the next morning and realised rather quickly that this was his reality once more, he groaned.
Sam flung the door open when he heard him awaken, two glasses of the nasty black liquid on a tray in his hands. He quickly placed the tray down on the table beside Cass' bed before helping him into a sitting position.
"Good morning my Lord! Did you have a restful sleep?" Sam's cheerful attitude helped shake away the dreariness of his thoughts so early in the morning. Cass ran a hand over his face with a groan, wincing when he came up against the wound on his head.
"I didn't dream." Cass told him. It was a small thing. A little thing that shouldn't upset him, but Cass always dreamed. He hadn't ever not dreamed.
Sam stared at him blankly.
"You never dream, my Lord." Sam told him and a deep heaviness filled him. Oh. Another thing he had lost. Cass gripped onto the sheets beneath his hands tightly, holding his tongue. If he opened his mouth right now, he might scream. "Uh, my Lord, I know that you've just opened your eyes but I was hoping we could do Byron's second test early." When Cass looked up at Sam he noticed that he was sweating.
Right. Byron. The man thought that Cass was going to have him killed. Cass put his head in his hands, sighing heavily before he nodded.
"Alright. He's waiting outside the room I'm assuming?" Cass asked, glancing at Sam who gave a giant nod. He was shifting nervously on his feet. "Then go get him." Cass winced.
That sounded harsh coming from his lips but Sam didn't seem to notice. He rushed away from the bed and Cass grumbled to himself. He wasn't looking forward to drinking that gunk again. His mouth salivated, but for the wrong reasons.
He felt like he was going to throw up just remembering the taste.
Sam and Byron came into the room at that time and Byron froze. Clearly, Cass' expression in the morning looked like death since Byron did not look relieved. In fact, he looked even more nervous.