As Ella's rage crystallized into action, her grip on Lenny's hair was not just a physical assertion of power but a prelude to a punishment that promised to transcend the ordinary torments of the Nether realm.
Athena heard that hum from the portal and knew where Ella was taking him to. "No!" she muttered, "don't do it! Ella, he will never be able to get out!"
The castle, responsive to her fury, began a grotesque transformation. Bones and skeletal remains, elements of its macabre architecture, shifted and writhed as if alive, coalescing into a form that was as horrifying as it was mesmerizing—a portal.
"That's the point!" Ella muttered as she continually pulled him along.
