Chapter 16: Lecture
Chapter Fifteen - Lecture.
Stefan rubbed his head, then sighed. Younger brothers could be a pain sometimes.
"Okay then, what do you want to talk about? What about Laurel?" he folded his arms.
Sorren exhaled, then looked at his brother. "You left her in there to torment her, right?"
There was a smile on Stefan’s face as his brother forgot to speak in his usual speech pattern. "Yes."
Sorren had misinterpreted the smile as Stefan’s thirst to see the prisoner tormented. "Very well. But you’ve been handling it wrongly."
Was he about to be lectured on how to treat a prisoner? Or was his brother going to tell him he’s been too easy on Laurel?
Stefan already knew he had been easy but that was because he couldn’t bring himself to go harder. Isolating her till he gathered himself was all he could do for now. "I’m listening."
"Alright." Sorren exhaled again, before listing. "Firstly, to get the best pleasure out of tormenting your victim is to always make sure the victim is returned to better health than you left them. This makes it easy to keep enjoying tormenting them and they last longer under your hold. Now, haven’t you been lacking in these, in respect to the princess?"
Indeed he was being lectured. And those were quite descriptive. Stefan rubbed his head and nodded. "I don’t know. Have I?"
Sorren nodded. "One, she is in bad health. Right now, she has an aching body, poor air circulation due to the condition of the prison and sores on her legs from cold, blisters and absence of shoes."
Was it that bad? It wasn’t even winter yet. Did his brother scrutinize Laurel’s body to realize that? Did he take off her clothes?