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Bird in a Gilded Cage

‘Dream Catcher told you not to touch me, not to coe, confusion, pain

‘What are you saying?’

She hadn’t ry and upset

‘Co like that without the evidence to back it up Besides, you enjoyed every bit of what happened, that was obvious’

Shadoas goading her, playing with her Everything about hierous But she felt stripped of dignity and self-respect, and she was also angry at herself, for allowing him to treat her like that, to take her that far

‘I’et ahat you’ve just done to me’

Even to her it sounded like tittle-tattling to a teacher Shadow laughed, and in his laugh she heard theeven this, having her as a sparring partner

‘But that’s my job You are my slave You do as you’re told You don’t have any say in the matter Remember?’

‘But it’s not the way it’s supposed to be I heard you talking I know, okay? You were in the cage and he told you things were going to be different He said to stay away from me Do you remember that?’

The instant the words were out she knew she shouldn’t have said them Far better to have kept quiet and wait for Drea to be? And howas if he alone were in charge and that he had nothing to lose in his treatment of her Besides, it had never been this bad And it was because Dream Catcher ay that he could do this Somehow his perception was that she had enjoyed it, that her screams were of ecstasy and not horror She’d said ‘no’ in so many different ways, and he needed to believe she had enjoyed it to ht

The silence that greeen thee he was angry

‘If you can’t accept your enjoyment of e have just shared, then consider it a punish with yourself without permission’

Again he had that ability to shock and confuse just as she thought she’d got an angle on the situation

‘How? I mean, when?’