Chapter 16Another Sacrifice?
Her mind was becoming numb. Time had lost all meaning for Sophia. Was it hours or days since she'd been taken hostage and brought to his terrible place? The silence and the darkness both served to increase her sense of disorientation. Her chest now hurt terribly from the constant strain caused by her body sagging forward in her bonds. Her hair hung lank across her face, covering her left eye as she sagged in that direction. She didn't have the energy to try to flick it away by shaking her head. What would be the point? She could see nothing but shadows in the darkness. The thought entered her mind that this was what it must have been like to suffer the agonies of crucifixion at the hands of the Roman Empire. She vaguely remembered reading that it was the act o
