Revenant Slaves Chapter 58: Chapter 57: Luna

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Luna had stepped back so far that her back was now against the wall, with nowhere to run; she realized how precarious her situation was. Ibrahim could kill her; what was one more girl with the blood of billions on his hand? Avraham’s face was still emotionless; he responded to Luna bluntly, “If you refuse, I will find another to take your place. This… needs to be voluntary.” “And you will let me walk away? After revealing your name to me? Really, the most notorious killer will let me walk away?” For the first time since he entered, his expression changed. Not much, but enough. The emptiness left his face, and in its place came something worse: sadness. It was deep, tired, and unmistakably real. Looking at him then felt like looking into a mirror that reflected all her own fear and confusion back at her. “I won’t have to kill you,” he said quietly, “And you will never reveal what I said here to anyone else.” A terrible premonition hit Luna. In front of this man, the extent of whose powers she couldn’t even fathom. She felt like death would have been easier than what was about to happen. She did not truly understand what he meant until her body moved. Luna felt the strain of her soul essence being diverted from her core, the same way Avraham used to do when he first forced her to understand weaving. But this was not the savage, tearing pain she remembered from those lessons. This was smoother. Precise. Essence threads wrapped around her arms, her legs, her spine, and before she understood what was happening, she was walking forward. She had no control over her own body. None. She could not stop. She could not even clench her own hand. She was trapped behind her own eyes in a body that no longer belonged to her. Luna walked to the rack of training weapons, picked up a shock-lance, and hurled it at Avraham. He caught it easily. Then her body picked up another one and stepped back into position, her fingers adjusting around the grip, her feet lowering into stance, every movement perfect and alien because none of it was hers. “This is why you will never betray me, you will be free to live your life as you wish, but never at the expense of us,” Avraham said. ‘Us?’ Luna wanted to say, but her mouth wouldn’t move either. His face changed again. Now there was disgust in it, and horror too, and Luna recognized both at once because they were the same emotions crashing through her. She fought with everything she had to retake control of her body, but nothing happened. Her limbs remained his. Then she turned inward. If she could not fight him physically, then she would fight him for control of her soul essence instead. There, at least, the struggle felt different. Not easier, but possible in a way resisting physically was not. Trying to reclaim her body felt like clawing into a dark void with nothing to seize. Fighting for her soul essence felt more like facing a mountain whose peak she could at least see, even if she had no hope of reaching it. So Luna turned all her will inward and threw herself against that mountain with everything she had. She still failed. But for the first time since her body had betrayed her, the struggle no longer felt shapeless. A tear broke free in her struggle with her own body, and slid down from her eye slowly down her cheek. Her body stiffened, and she stood up straighter, and then all at once she was in control again. She looked warily at Avraham, and he had a tear flowing down his cheek, mirroring hers. Luna felt more creeped out by that man now than ever before. It seemed their conversation was at an end when the door to the training room opened, and at its entrance stood Lady Azarea, her brow taut, her mouth curved into a neat smile. Luna’s chest exploded in a world of pain as Avraham hit her with his lance, toppling her to the ground. “That won’t do, Yalena, never get distracted in the middle of a fight.” Luna was bleeding from her chest. Avraham hadn’t held back. “That looks like it hurt, child. I th