Revenant Slaves Chapter 30: Chapter 29: Luna

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Chapter 29: Luna Five minutes later, they were both in the training room, and she hadn’t even changed into her combat suit; neither had Avraham. And for one of the first times, all the windows had been blacked out, and there was no equipment that was needed, other than two wooden sticks. So the techs had been cleared as well. “You’ve barely started grabbing onto the essence threads of your soul. And have constantly failed at manifesting it into something useful.” Luna felt the familiar feeling of enhancements working their way into her eyes. Avraham weaved special lenses around her irises so she could better comprehend the essence threads of her soul. Then Avraham pulled at her soul, causing Luna to start convulsing violently, as she always did. It felt like every single strand of hair on her body was being pulled out violently at the same time. It felt worse because these hair follicles weren’t embedded in her body, where they could tear loose; they were rooted in her soul. A soul she didn’t believe in a week ago. Luna pursed her lips as strongly as she could. She wasn’t allowed to scream. She felt a new sensation; it was still pain, but blissfully different. She welcomed it and relished in it, trying to focus her mind on this new source of pain, hard enough that she could ignore her soul being wrenched. The pain increased, and she finally opened her eyes. It was Avraham, with a practice sword. He had hit her! He raised the weapon again and struck her again, and she blocked it, but somehow Avraham’s weapon pushed back and broke through her guard, hitting her. The amount of pain she was in was getting ridiculous. “Grab those essence threads. Weave them around your weapon, around your hands, around your body. Predict where my hit would land on you, and focus on gathering the essence on that part of your body.” Luna tried; she had never been able to weave properly until now. Grabbing at her essence threads was already a tall order. Avraham kept hitting her again and again; it was a small miracle how she still managed to block most of his attacks. But he wouldn’t acknowledge that feat, of course, he wouldn’t. Luna screamed inside her mind, trying to focus through the pain. It was of no use; Avraham’s strike kept barraging her poor body over and over again. All the while, he was forcing her soul essence out of her. “Do it, keep holding on to the threads, will them around yourself,” Avraham repeated. Luna finally had enough, “I CAN’T.” She screamed, her own hoarse voice sounded unfamiliar to her. She was crying, she realized. The pain was unimaginable, but she had to keep herself on her feet; she hated him, she hated Avraham. She wanted to hit him. She wanted him to feel her pain. Luna screamed and charged forward. Another heavy hit that broke her guard pushed her back and to the ground. She had hurt her ankle; it didn’t matter. What was an ankle to her soul being ripped apart. She barely registered it. She probably shattered a rib; she couldn’t tell, she might have hit her head, she didn’t feel it. Her fingers were swollen and wouldn’t close around her sword. She would still press on. She had her arms, she had her teeth. ‘The pain, by the Flame, the pain, someone stop the pain.’ No one came. Avraham was unflinching, where was the sweet old man who had almost cried when he had done this to her on that first night. ‘I want to hurt him, that traitor, that liar, how could I have known it would hurt this much?’ She wouldn’t forgive him, she pleaded. The pain only grew worse, and Avraham stood over her like an insurmountable mountain. His grip on her soul was like a black hole, sucking everything around it into itself. How long had it been? Her mind was responding, but it wasn’t working; nothing was working like it was supposed to. She couldn’t see, couldn’t hear, couldn’t touch, couldn’t smell, and she couldn’t taste her own blood and sweat flowing into her mouth, gasping as she had been for breath. She was alive, wasn’t she? ‘Yes,’ ca