Chapter 5: A Living Dummy
[: Daniel POV :]
I always believed that pain would sharpen the will, and they said what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
But what if it breaks you?
What if it burns so deep that you forget your own name just to survive another day?
You might think that someone could endure or even last for years, but for me, it wasn’t even 1 year or even 10 years, but only one month.
One month.
That’s how long I lasted under House Alburn before my mind began to blur between dream and reality.
Lord Velroth’s son, Reven, didn’t see me as a person or even as a human.
Even worse, he didn’t even see me as a beast, all i was to him was a training log with a heartbeat.
And House Alburn... was a furnace of agony.
It started on the very first day I came into this house.
I was stripped of everything, my clothes, my name, even the tiny dignity I managed to protect in the slave pits.