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She shook her head slightly “Girl, it’s hopeless”

“Nothing is hopeless” I had to believe there was a chance out of this place, because if I didn’t allow myself to have a little bit of hope, then I wouldn’t be able to go on “Laura, you’ve been here a long tiine how disheartened you ive up How many women are here?”

“Twelve”

“Oh That’s it?”

“I’lad there aren’t more because no one deserves this”

I’d assuanization see wo too ht woels “No, no one does” I started to feel defeated once again, knoere outnu without direction would probably be pointless, especially if there would be consequences for that…whatever they were “Who’s your demon?”

“Raum”

“What’s he like?”

She took a long ti the Malevolent in the s, their darkness blocking out the light froe ry that I’m here at all, but I’ve come to appreciate Raum because he’s better than the others He’s not cruel and vicious like the other deive him what he needs, and he doesn’t hurt me”

“Forneus said it’s a sin to hurt an angel”

“But demons are sinners” She made the statement simply, like that was all the explanation I needed Her eyes eventually turned back to me “Rules are meant to be broken Vows shattered Sins committed Don’t assume you’re safe because they say you’re safe There is no truth to this place, not when you’re in Hell”

The stares of the Malevolent beca into my cheek like they could hear every e shared My heart fluttered in my chest and not in that cute, butterfly way, but in that irregular, arrhythmia way “All the more reason for us to find a way out of here” I couldn’t continue this existence in a living nightmare, where reality was the same whether I was asleep or awake

“If you come up with a viable plan, I’m in But I don’t expect you will” She wasn’t a pessimistic person, just beaten down by the painful existence, le moment in this place felt like a year, so years must have felt like centuries

I didn’t judge her whatsoever “Desperate people do desperate things…” And I was pretty desperate to get the hell out of this place

She faced forward again, her eyes dropping and looking at the bench in front of her, her hands together in her lap