Chapter 301: A Whole Lot More Interesting
Reaching through the bars, I stroked the girl’s face, ignoring the dirt and blood that had been caked onto her cheeks. Her hair was a tangled mass that I didn’t even bother to try and comb through, and it was easy to tell that she hadn’t been properly cared for for a long time.
She was little more than skin-covered bones, but there was a fire burning deep down inside her.
One that refused to be extinguished.
"I can give you that and so much more," I promised her, feeling a deep kinship with her. "But I need to know what revenge looks like to you. To say the word is easy, but I want to do you justice."
’I want them all dead,’ hissed the girl, and I could see a bright spark of red burning where her heart was. Wrath, it made sense.
"I need you to listen to me," I said. "You have a demon seed inside of you. Wrath, if you want to be exact, but because of that seed, you have more options than others. I can keep you alive until you merge with your demon. Then, you can take your own vengeance. You don’t have to die in this cage if you don’t want to."
Before I could finish speaking, the girl was already shaking her head. ’Too tired,’ she sighed. ’I want to end it all, but I don’t want THEM to win. I can already feel myself changing into whatever they were trying to turn me into. I want to die a human; I want to die as me.’
"Okay," I agreed, rubbing my thumb on her cheek, collecting her tears of frustration. This would be her sacrifice for the first part... her tears. "Then I can send you back in time, I can make sure that you are reborn to a time and place of your desire, and you can get revenge for yourself. The demon seed will still be attached to your heart, so you’ll keep your powers and memories and have the strength of Wrath to keep you going."
Resting her cheek in my palm, I felt more than heard her hum.