"Your torment will begin here." by Ygs | World Anvil

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Mon 15th Jul 2019 05:41

"Your torment will begin here."

by Ygs Goldclamp

[TW: gore, physical and mental torture, claustrophobic content, strong language]
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Khurgorbaeyag thinks he's so clever. I thought he would wait with his punishment a little longer (to be honest, I hoped he would wait until I die) but apparently that son of a wench is too impatient. So he started his little mind game today, just snatching me off this plane of existance into some pocket dimension or whatever. Actually, it might only be an illusion! I'm currently stuck in what seems to be an...endless desert? There's lots and lots of sand and oh boy, it's preeeetty hot. The same temperature hits me from above, I must admit that if this is an illusion it's impressive. It feels real. I think I will just wait around for Khurgorbaeyag to show himself or talk to me. I'm patient, I can wait!
 
It's been a few hours in this desert now... and I'm REALLY hot. I have never encountered an illusion spell this strong. Can an illusion even do physical damage? My skin starts peeling off from being sunburned and my feet feel like I'm walking on coals... sitting down is not a better option, either. Why is there no shade here? I would die for some shade now or at least some water. Hey Khurgorbaeyag! Show yourself instead of trying to play your tricks on me!
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Instead of talking to me Khurgorbaeyag has thrown me into another pocket dimension. I'm sure that this is not a spell anymore... the pain from the sunburn and my feet is still going WAY too strong. At least this place has no sun, it looks like a cave. A big fucking cave. There's water all the way up to my knees. Salt water. My sore feet don't take that too well, it STINGS. Besides, the water dripping from the ceiling makes an unbearably loud sound when it hits the surface... covering my ears won't even help. This is some A+ bullshit you're pulling here, Khurgorbaeyag. YOU'RE AN ASSHOLE, YOU HEAR ME? JUST SITTING SOMEWHERE NICE AND COMFORTABLE WHILE I WADE THROUGH YOUR VERY SPECIAL NIGHTMARE FOR ME?! STOP MAKING THINGS SO LOUD! IT'S DRIVING ME CRAZY!
 
If it wasn't for fucking Mab I wouldn't even be here. It's all because of her, she made me kill my friends and followers so I could be her little pet. IF YOU CAN HEAR ME YOU CAN STICK YOUR PLANS FOR ME UP YOUR FUCKING ASS WHERE THEY BELONG, MAB! YOU DID THIS TO ME, MAY YOU BE CURSED BY ALL THINGS BAD AND UNHOLY! I HOPE YOU ROT IN A PLACE SIMILAR TO THIS CRAP HERE!
 
GO FUCK YOURSELVES, BOTH OF YOU!
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It's so cold. So, so cold. Why doesn't Khurgorbaeyag just stop throwing me into different places? I had hoped for this to end after the cave but now I'm... somewhere cold. There's nothing here besides lots and lots of ice. I'm still wet from the water in the cave, it's freezing out here. My feet are frozen to the ground, I'm afraid to lift them up but I have to.
 
It feels like I've been here for days. It's all just white. So much white with so little red from my feet. The skin has ripped off while walking barefoot on the ice. My fingers have turned black, I can't move them anymore. I want out. I want back to Hallfeld.
 
Khurgorbaeyag, hear me out! Please, listen to me! I know I have done something unforgivable but please, I beg you, stop this. I will do anything you want. I will serve you, I will serve my old master, I will serve anyone you want! Just please make this stop! Khurgorbaeyag! Mab! Anyone! Please, for the love of the Gods, please save me!
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I think I passed out. The last thing I could remember was lying down on the ice, then everything went black. It's still black but not cold anymore... I can feel something above me. Is it stone? It feels like stone. Am I still on the ground? It feels like I'm lying on my back but my feet touch stone as well...
 
I'm trapped. By the Gods, I'm trapped in a coffin or something. I can't even move in here, it's too narrow. Oh Gods. Oh Gods, I will die here. Are the walls closing in? They are closing in, I can feel it. I can't even lift my chest to breathe anymore. Oh Gods, I will die. The stone walls won't give in, I'm pushing them away with all my strength.
 
This is it. I feel like I'm fainting any moment now, I can't breathe anymore. My fingers burn from scratching the walls to dig myself out. They're bloody, I can feel it. My fingernails, I ripped them out with the scratching. It hurts. I won't get out of here, I can't make it. Khurgorbaeyag, end this. Please. Just end this.
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Everything is numb. I'm not in the stone coffin anymore. It's bright. Another endless landscape. Piercing white light and piercing glass shards on the ground. They dig into my feet. There's no reason in walking, I won't escape anyway. It's no use. Khurgorbaeyag won't listen, Mab won't listen. They won't come.
 
I fall to my knees, the pain from the shards burying themselves in my legs is barely there. Everything is numb. I look down, see my reflection in the shards. A monster. A monster not worth of saving. My hands grab as much shards as they can. They cut through my skin, some impale my hands fully and stick out at the back of them. Everything is numb.
 
I look at my reflection in the shards. A monster not worth of saving. I take the two hands full of shards and press them into my eyes.
 
Everything is numb.

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