Silent Defiance

Cassia Rowe

The air was suffocating, heavy with the scent of damp walls and metallic blood. My wrists were raw from the ropes, and my body ached from the cold floor where I had been left to rot. Lucius and Nadia’s threats echoed in my mind, their words a poisonous reminder of the situation I was in.

I didn’t know how much time had passed since they had last come in. Minutes felt like hours, and ho