Mara's POV
A long bang on the side of the cage I was still in made me blink my eyes open and I lifted my head Jk from its bent position to focus on the grim faces of a few guards.
I hadn't been exactly sleeping, do I even sleep? I had simply been resting my head, and I had ended up getting lost in my thoughts along the way.
"Are you ready to confess your crime yet?" One of the guards asked in a loud voice, with a bored facial expression on. There wasn't a whole lot of guards in here at the moment, compared to how many guards had been in here last night when I had just got thrown in here.
I had been here for over twenty hours, that was the only thing I was sure about at the moment. I hadn't been let out of the silver cage throughout, none of the guards had believed all that I had said throughout the times I attempted to make them understand the fact that I was innocent of what they were all accusing me of. I also hadn't gotten a chance to speak face to face with lord Klaus yet, none of the guards had even bothered to send my message across to him.
I was completely doomed.
I was also extremely hungry.
I normally have a really high appetite and thirst for blood than normal vampires, which is why I usually take in way more blood than normal vampires in one go. I have never gone more than an hour to three hours without getting an intake or blood into my body, because of the way my bloodthirst could slip into something dangerous in a fleeting moment.
Although that had ever happened to me, my father had ensured that never happened for everyone's safety, and had made sure I understood the importance of getting some blood into my system once I started to feel hungry.
This was the longest I've ever gone without an intake of blood, and it felt like my gums were going to split into two at any second due to how bad it was vibrating and aching at the moment.
Each time I was usually hungry back at home, it doesn't ever affect my gums and other parts of my body, because I never gave it a chance to. But now that I had zero power over that at this very moment, I could feel my gum itching in a really irritating way, my fangs were also dying to elongate and sink into the fast my beating pulse of a warm throat, to feel the warm blood slide into my mouth and fill up my throat, right from the source.
I let out a small groan and dragged my fingers through my hair after a couple of moments, refraining from tugging on the roots of my hair because it was of no use, and I felt way too angry, hungry, and frustrated to do anything unnecessary like a tug on my hair in frustration.
"I have nothing to confess about, I didn't know what you wanted me to say, but I'm telling the truth, I didn't kill her, I didn't… please believe me, please." I ended up finally speaking up, staring up at the guard straight in the eyes. I once again tried to see if I'd be able to hypothesize him and manipulate his thoughts, but it was like the magic spell lord Klaus had assigned a powerful witch or warlock to cast around this whole place, completely stopping vampires from being able to use any of their powers once they were around here.
"That's a very wrong answer, Miss Mara. A really wrong one." The other guard murmured after a moment with a shake of his head.
"It is? But it's the truth." I said to him almost immediately, I was currently sitting cross-legged on the floor, in the middle of the cage. I could feel a lot weaker than I had been feeling yesterday, when I just got thrown in here, and my lack of blood in my system was most definitely a huge part of my current tiredness.
I hated my life so much right now, so much.
"We're really doing this right now, right?" The first guard asked the second one, completely ignoring what I had just said. The second guard grinned in such a sick way that made me shudder a little, because I had a feeling they were both referring to me, and it left a queasy feeling in my empty stomach.
If I hadn't been locked in a silver cage for over twenty-four hours, and hadn't been left hungry throughout those long hours, then I wouldn't have been feeling unsure and somehow scared– but all those things had happened to me, which is why I was completely feeling really unsure and scared as I watched and listened as both guards continued to interact with each other like I wasn't in here.
"We really are, we are. The rest of the guards are waiting for us." The first one started to say.
"With the required instruments and all that?"
"Of course. It had all been laid out accordingly."
They both looked at me at the same time and nodded their heads at once.
"We're going to have so much fun breaking this one."
"We really are." The first guard murmured back in response, and I felt that unsure feeling get intense inside my stomach at that moment.
*******
"Please, please!" I screamed.
I've been screaming for a real-time in intense agony, way more painful than what had been described to me by my father if someone was to come in direct contact with silver, the pain was so much more intense than what I used to think it was like.
It was complete agony and suffering, and I could do nothing but plead again and again, but each plea fell on deaf ears.
I was currently sustained high up by silver chains wrapped around my wrists, to a really tall roof, and some of the guards were torturing me in ways I had only ever been told about by my father, in ways I didn't ever imagine I was ever going to physically experience in my life.
I was completely weakened at this point, and way too weak to stand – I was only still standing because of the chains which were wrapped really tightly around my wrists– and the silver of the chain was so thin, it had completely burnt the skin around my wrist really deeply.
The more I moved around in pain and tried to avoid each slash of a knife across my skin, the more the silver chains tugged and tore at the once unblemished skin at my wrist, making the burn and cut go even deeper.
It got to a point that a certain slash of the silver-tipped knife moving through the soft skin of my back had been too intense, it had sent me straight into an unconscious state.