"I know, they’ve prepared a carriage for us, the gars will take us directly to Buckley’s torture chamber in D’Hara," Alice said, "it’s a few miles from the castle."

"How do you know that?" Tina asked.

"I am familiar with all the mord sith," Alice said, "there was no way I could get away with any magic with those three that attacked us."

"Who took Bette?" Tina asked wiping her tears and trying to sit up again in vain.

"Tina, I shouldn’t tell you…"

"Fucking tell me Alice, she’s the love of my life!" Tina said, "I can’t live without her! Even if it means sacrificing myself for her…"

"Okay! Okay, Tina! Please, just calm down," Alice said softly.

"Who took her?"

Alice sighed and answered, "a ruthless mord sith named Jodi Lerner. She is not the strongest mord sith, but she is the most brutal and terrible one."

"Oh Spirits! We have to save Bette now!" Tina cried trying to get up but falling back down with the pain.

"I’m sorry Mother confessor," Dr. Wilson said, "those agiels did some serious damage, even with the great wizard’s power, you will not be able to leave in at least a week."

Tina let out a cry of distress as she said, "do you know what Jodi fucking Lerner can do to Bette in a whole week!"

…………………..

The worst pain imaginable could not describe the suffering Bette Porter has suffered in the last six days. It was torture for twenty two hours and sleep for two.

Jodi’s instructions were simple: Make Bette lose her free will and succumb to her. But it wasn’t that simple to accomplish. As long as Tina was in her heart, there was no way she would lose her freewill to anyone.

So for the first three days it was nothing but torture from not only Jodi but from her ruthless colleagues who enjoyed watching the brunette scream and cry and beg for mercy. They were always surprised by how long Bette would last before crying for mercy. Their own subjects couldn’t even last five minutes, but Bette would take hours at a time before begging for mercy.

Bette was always conscious of everything. Her mind was beginning to fade, she didn’t even remember her own name anymore. But in one little corner of her mind lived Tina and that kept her going. That kept her going strong.

"Ahhhh!" Bette screamed struggling against the bounds as the agiel crashed into her spine again. Her hands were chained to the ceiling and her feet to the floor.

She had nasty bruises and scars all over her chest, back, legs, and a big one on her temple for accidentally calling Tina’s name in her sleep.

Jodi encircled Bette once more with a smirk plastered on her face. It had been almost a week of torture and Bette was still defiant. Jodi never had a harder time with anybody else. She enjoyed the challenge but worried that she wouldn’t be able to defeat Bette.

"So, who’s Alice?" Jodi asked jabbing the agiel on her thigh.

"Ahhhh! I don’t know! I don’t know!" Bette said her memory drawing blanks but her brain registering the name as someone familiar.

"Good," Jodi hesitated placing the agiel near her other temple. Bette immediately trembled in fear and started crying knowing the horrible pain that was to come if she didn’t answer correctly.

"Who is Tina Kennard?"

"I don’t know," Bette answered immediately even though hers wasn’t the same case as Alice who was like a distant memory. Tina was constantly there. Her face, her voice, her smile, her laugh. Always there. When she slept at night even when Jodi cruelly left her tied up upside down, she slept peacefully with dreams of her and Tina kissing on the bridge of the boundary. She is like a goddess that protects her from losing her sanity, but she doesn’t remember if this woman even exists in reality.

"You don’t remember Tina?" Jodi said with a victorious grin.

"No, no!" Bette shook her head, "I only remember you mistress Jodi. Only you!"

"Only me?" Jodi said leaning forward to kiss Bette’s lips who tried to act like she enjoyed it.

"Only you mistress Jodi," Bette repeated as Jodi put away her agiels and turned around.

"Tina," Bette whispered softly knowing that Jodi could not hear her nor read her lips, "if you’re out there, save me Tina."