“What happened after all that then?” Bromyr’s lips quivered as tears leaked from his beady eyes. Talia rubbed away her own tears as her body shook. She shook her head, most of what happened after that was nothing but a blur. “Nazir was pissed. Midnight managed to drug Talia into oblivion after a bit of a fight but by then Amber had… Passed on. When he got us home he set himself to task teaching us who was in charge. He put Talia into a machine made of a very rare metal. It was designed to hurt giants until their minds melted with the agony. It had hundreds of little needles he could screw into her skin over time. She spent two years in that thing. He starved her the entire time. Her mind broke about a year and a half in. “He made me watch every time

