[Content warnings: captivity, torture, mild gore, blood, blood loss, aftermath of severe whipping, mention of facial disfigurement, painful wound cleaning, life threatening injury.]
[Content warnings on the series include: gore including impalement through wrists, death of background characters.]
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He thinks she is unconscious until the heavy box of supplies slips from his shaking arms. It crashes to the floor and the noise makes her whimper. He makes an involuntary unhappy sound of his own. She shouldn’t be conscious, she’d be better off not feeling. She twitches and shudders, trying to curl up. He barely feels his bruised knees hitting the floor.