CW: explicit graphic non-con (way under the cut, and I will make a summary in the next canon chapter), mention of main character death, magical torture, wing whump, pierced limbs, air pulling, muzzle, constraints (chains, hogtie), humiliation, stress position, ring gag. Also mention of: knifes, whipping, broken bones, denailing, burning, skinning, chocking, cut wrists (not self inflicted, part of the merry torture Kyriel puts Kai through), starvation
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The angel was brutal, in the following weeks, as he shattered him for good.
Kai remembered Kyriel promising him pain. Punishment for running, for fighting him on the battlefield. For daring to try to stop him as he unleashed his hordes of undeads on the world, seeking ever more land to conquer, ever fresher flesh to feed his Fallens and to replenish his armies with. Seeking to take him back after Kai had escaped him, recoiling in horror at the memories of what Kyriel had made him do as an undead himself. The death and pain he’d caused, oblivious, unable to disobey, unable to even think anything the angel didn’t want him to.
And he remembered, most of all, the latest promise the angel had made him. What he’d growled in his ear as he slammed him to the floor, runes blazing, after Kai had dared to stab him, had dared to try to escape again.
I’ll take away your hope. Your mind, if I have to. Your dignity, now that I have your freedom.
Anything you might still cling to.
And the angel was for once true to his word. Methodically, relentlessly, setting up to do exactly what he’d promised - making him scream out of his mind for the following long, terrible, excruciating weeks.
Kai had thought he knew what torture was. He’d seen his fair share, after all - he’d been Kyriel’s pupil, had learned from him how one broke a man and, after that, he’d seen the fate of the captured Fallens at the hands of the human Princes, had learned of how the cruelty of men could be on par of those of immortals’.
But this was worse. So, so much worse than anything he could have expected.
Sexual themes