Chapter 233: Punching Through Water
Soleia’s fingers reached for Orion’s outstretched ones, but before their hands could touch, something wrapped around Soleia’s waist and tugged her back― hard.
Likewise, Orion wasn’t allowed the opportunity to jump. A red rope had been wrapped around his torso, pressing him against the metal bars of the cage. The back of his head slammed against the iron, and he winced in pain as his head began to ring.
Soleia could only watch in horror as men began to yell above her. She couldn’t make out what they were saying, but she could see with her own eyes as wood began to grow from the parts of the ship that were still intact. They began to weave together, patching up the hole that Orion had punched through.
"It was my mistake to leave you two together in the same cell," Ricard said with a sneer.
Reaching into the cage, his hands went straight for Soleia’s ears. In two sharp tugs, he yanked the earrings right off, the jewelry ripping through her skin and flesh as she cried out in pain.
The two selenite earrings laid in the palm of his hand, dull and lifeless if not for the layer of red blood that otherwise colored the stones. Then, with a taunting huff, he maintained eye contact with the two prisoners before flinging his arm back and throwing the earrings out of the hole before it was fully patched up.
Soleia’s eyes could only follow her earrings in dismay, her heart falling into the pits of her stomach as the stone disappeared across the horizon and out of her sight. They were so small that she couldn’t even catch the splash of them landing in the water.
Just like that, she was a bird with her wings cut off.
"There," Ricard said with a low growl. "Without this, there won’t be any more funny business with you two."