Terror ensnared Aurelia and sank its teeth deep inside her, freezing her heart when she realized she was captured. She opened her eyes to find that a chain-link net hung heavy over her body, embedding her into the cold dirt of the earth. The net glistened like fire and moonlight and she realized if she wasn’t trapped within it, that she would find the sheer craftsmanship of it beautiful. Rocky formations surrounded her, their moisture beading down the walls and dripping onto her face from the spiked stalactites above. They hung like sharpened knives and daggers, threatening to strike down and devour any who dared to enter there.
She grit her teeth against the arrant force of the bindings pinning her down and thrashed her body with a fury to try and free herself. The picture of Cletus’ li
