The more Alexandra tried to struggle out, the more the chains wrapped tighter and pulled her down. Hearing Maximus calling her name, she was raring to go up, and it took her some time to figure out that resistance is futile.
She looked down. Oddly that usually dark place had a dim light and she saw the chains clenching on her ankles loosen as she calms down. She took in deep breaths to calm herself, she stopped looking up at the surface where she could see Maximus' face, and she focused on the chains.
[Ah… It's a spell…]
She realized that her dear father has bound her with a spell to possibly imprison her.
"Ah, dear father… You're wise…"
She laughed in her heart. What better place is there to trap her, other than inside her? But she was not in the mood to admire her father's wisdom as she became angry at the cruelty of her father.
