SHE WAS JUST A PAWN.

Another of my means to get to what I covet.

" The next time you decide to disregard my command, make sure to never come back. Because next time I will surely kill you with my own hands if you don't die. "

This was aught to strike a sense of fear. Submission. Obedience.

Yet she smiled back. Like a fool. It seemed like she was enjoying a scolding.

" I knew you would not abandon me like this. Anyway. What is this place? "

she asked as if I owed her any explanation.

Nevertheless I obliged. She had proven and was supposed be more...