Day Twenty-Six: "Please Don't Do This" (C3)
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Summary: Bronte Wyvernwind is being held against his will by strangers who seem intent on slowly draining his blood. But he gradually learns that all is not as it seems. (TW for blood loss/bleeding)
They had the knives again.
Bronte thrashed against the restraints on the table as his captors drew closer. He was still so weak, and they'd been ruthlessly bleeding him for hours now, possibly days.
“Please,” he whispered. “Please don't do this.”
One of them hesitated. A tall woman with a kind of wild smell to her, and features that didn't seem quite humanoid. The other, a spindly woman with dark hair and pale skin and eyes that promised death, seized her wrist and pulled her forward.
“We can't,” she said. The taller woman nodded, though there were tears in her eyes.
“No, wait,” Bronte pleaded. “You don't have to do this. Please don't.”