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Ekatrina's POV:

Ekatrina had been abused, degraded, and made to feel less in more ways than one during her life, but even she had to admit that this was a new form of abuse compared to all of those previous experiences that were done in the privacy of a bedroom. Walking through the middle of the inn with a gag in her mouth that made her unable to mutter a single word of protest made her feel truly powerless which was something that she had not felt in a really long time. Additionally, the constant trickle of drool leaving through the corner of her mouth brought a never before felt sense of shame, the eyes of the inn's guests and the other prison guard showing a mix of curiosity and amusement.

Since the moment she had woken up four days prior and the sham of the court had ended, even though she had been fully restrained, Ekatrina always had the confidence that she had a modicum of control over her situation. The guards were always showing a certain tension in their interactions with her, the fear that she had always seen in the faces of others was present even though they were trying to hide it. That gave Ekatrina a sense that escape was possible, but what about now? She was being paraded through the middle of a crowd as if she was nothing more than a joke, she could feel how all the layers of fear and respect gained through the years in Reznic's underworld were falling off with every step that she took.

This is inhumane, this bitch will be the second one I kill after that Arzed bastard.

“Who are you glaring at? move NOW!. You need to have a chat with the warden about your behavior” Then she shoved Ekatrina forward making her almost stumble, if she had not been careful enough she would have fallen face-first onto the floor.

Then they arrived in front of a door which she knocked on and then opened the door. Inside Arzed was reading some papers and when he looked at them he sighed.

“Really Fi? What did she do?”

“The bitch called me a bitch, she needs to learn a lesson before she does something similar to some of the less forgiving guards. She is still acting as if she is something else besides an inmate and the other guards are getting tired of her attitudes. The constant complaints about the food, the seating, the restraints, and about many other things. I promised myself that if she complained about one more thing, she would not be able to use her mouth for the rest of the day and well, it did not take me long to fulfill that promise”

“Sighhh....Fine, I guess it’s about time that I remind her about her status since she seems to think this is something temporary and not her new life. I was going to wait until we arrived at the prison, but if it even bothered you I can’t imagine how the others are taking it. Leave her there I will call you when I finish”

The guard, Fi was her name, nodded and closed the door.

“Well, congratulations you definitely got on Fiona’s nerves Miss Grenier, and that is not something easy to do. Now go ahead and take a seat and while our conversation lasts you will remain how you are at this moment. There is a need for you to think about the actions that led to your current predicament”

Ekatrina looked at Arzed's calm expression and would have cursed at him if it had served for something, but in her current state, it would just add another insult to her pride since she could not articulate any words at the moment.

“Come on sit down Miss Grenier, you win nothing by glaring at me like that. I would have admonished my subordinate if what she did was crossing a line, but I have heard similar complaints during the last few days and I must say that you must be quite dumb to aggravate the guards in charge of your future in this manner. You probably think that what’s happening to you is unfair, but I must remind you something basic about civilized society: if you break the law you need to pay, plain and simple. You, Miss Grenier broke so many laws that even I feel the 50 years you got is light for a sentence since even that was a small percent of all the crimes that you committed.

I glared at him, hearing his words of condemnation without truly knowing the hell that her life had been, how dare he judge her from his seat of privilege while she had to crawl on the ground to obtain everything with her own hands. The decisions that had torn her soul apart to keep a balance in Reznic's underworld were not something that anyone besides herself could understand. Besides how many upper-crusters killed girls in the brothels just because they could? And why do I get to be condemned because of killing two farmers that provoked me? Hypocrites.

"Yeah, I know what you are thinking; why me? There are other people committing crimes all over the place, but you chose to punish me!" Arzed said in an exaggerated manner obviously mocking her current thoughts. Then he continued.

"Up until now the RCAE was supposed to be the one to dispense punishment towards essence users, but we just didn’t have the resources to do it. The best we could do was kill some who had obviously become mass murderers or those whose crimes were so heinous that have even given birth to horror stories in certain areas of the continent. I could probably count those with two hands in the last two hundred years since the cataclysm. There are a lot of other essence users breaking laws, becoming small dictators in their own corners of their world and the countries are allowing this behavior because every essence user is a weapon that could be used against their enemies. So the stupid countries would not cooperate in apprehending what they called a "necessary evil" he said those last words with some true derision slipping into his tone.

Ekatrina considered herself practical in using her essence skills as a show of force, she used her strength only when necessary since she knew it could cause the country to send its armed forces toward her and this would have put an end to her comfortable life.

"Take for example guard Fiona there, she hates your type and I don’t mean essentialists since she is one herself. Thanks to irresponsible essence users like yourself her life was ruined, which is actually a story that you hear pretty commonly in some countries with a less organized government than St. Shurrelle. Either way, her village became destitute because a petty dictator of an essentialist had taken over the area and was collecting exorbitant taxes. When the petty dictator detected that she was an essence user on her sixteen birthday, the user wanted to make her a follower of hers since the Essentialist had ambitions of leading something bigger than just a couple of villages in the boonies, this meant that she needed the manpower that essentialist could bring her"

Ekatrina knew of some of these countries but thought that they were just barbaric remnants of a time past.

"So what did she do to accomplish her ambitions? She started collecting any girls that showed the skills of an essentialist, of course, far-removed villages don't have that big of a population and any that she found was like finding a golden nugget after sifting through tons of dirt. Especially if they had the potential to become a strong Essentialist capable of doing more than just party tricks with their future skills. This Essentialist knew that she needed to submit Fiona before she taught her how to use her powers, so what did she do? Basically, what any bully does when they have power over others, take things by force. The essentialist kidnapped her parents and sister. Almost immediately she killed her parents in front of her and held her sister in an underground dungeon as an assurance of her obedience, then she locked Fiona in a room where she was starved and physically abused for almost a year, not even teaching her any use of her essence skills. When she got an opportunity to escape she did it, sadly it was a trap to see if she had been broken enough to be taught. As a lesson, the bully did once again what it did best, take by force. He killed her sister in front of her, so you see Miss Grenier as to why she has a particular distaste for those who use their powers for personal gains"

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Next: 14. Ekatrina - Everybody has a story

Extra Pics: Fiona Hill

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I swear I am trying to make the shorter my goal is to make them less than a thousand words so that it's not such a chore to read them....sighhhh

Also that would be easier for me to do. Oh well you get more to read until I figure how to do it properly.

Either way like always let me know what you think of the story, I need to make some art to show for Fiona.

Zernasss

Description

Ekatrina's POV:

Ekatrina had been abused, degraded, and made to feel less in more ways than one during her life, but even she had to admit that this was a new form of abuse compared to all of those previous experiences that were done in the privacy of a bedroom. Walking through the middle of the inn with a gag in her mouth that made her unable to mutter a single word of protest made her feel truly powerless which was something that she had not felt in a really long time. Additionally, the constant trickle of drool leaving through the corner of her mouth brought a never before felt sense of shame, the eyes of the inn's guests and the other prison guard showing a mix of curiosity and amusement.

Since the moment she had woken up four days prior and the sham of the court had ended, even though she had been fully restrained, Ekatrina always had the confidence that she had a modicum of control over her situation. The guards were always showing a certain tension in their interactions with her, the fear that she had always seen in the faces of others was present even though they were trying to hide it. That gave Ekatrina a sense that escape was possible, but what about now? She was being paraded through the middle of a crowd as if she was nothing more than a joke, she could feel how all the layers of fear and respect gained through the years in Reznic's underworld were falling off with every step that she took.

This is inhumane, this bitch will be the second one I kill after that Arzed bastard.

“Who are you glaring at? move NOW!. You need to have a chat with the warden about your behavior” Then she shoved Ekatrina forward making her almost stumble, if she had not been careful enough she would have fallen face-first onto the floor.

Then they arrived in front of a door which she knocked on and then opened the door. Inside Arzed was reading some papers and when he looked at them he sighed.

“Really Fi? What did she do?”

“The bitch called me a bitch, she needs to learn a lesson before she does something similar to some of the less forgiving guards. She is still acting as if she is something else besides an inmate and the other guards are getting tired of her attitudes. The constant complaints about the food, the seating, the restraints, and about many other things. I promised myself that if she complained about one more thing, she would not be able to use her mouth for the rest of the day and well, it did not take me long to fulfill that promise”

“Sighhh....Fine, I guess it’s about time that I remind her about her status since she seems to think this is something temporary and not her new life. I was going to wait until we arrived at the prison, but if it even bothered you I can’t imagine how the others are taking it. Leave her there I will call you when I finish”

The guard, Fi was her name, nodded and closed the door.

“Well, congratulations you definitely got on Fiona’s nerves Miss Grenier, and that is not something easy to do. Now go ahead and take a seat and while our conversation lasts you will remain how you are at this moment. There is a need for you to think about the actions that led to your current predicament”

Ekatrina looked at Arzed's calm expression and would have cursed at him if it had served for something, but in her current state, it would just add another insult to her pride since she could not articulate any words at the moment.

“Come on sit down Miss Grenier, you win nothing by glaring at me like that. I would have admonished my subordinate if what she did was crossing a line, but I have heard similar complaints during the last few days and I must say that you must be quite dumb to aggravate the guards in charge of your future in this manner. You probably think that what’s happening to you is unfair, but I must remind you something basic about civilized society: if you break the law you need to pay, plain and simple. You, Miss Grenier broke so many laws that even I feel the 50 years you got is light for a sentence since even that was a small percent of all the crimes that you committed.

I glared at him, hearing his words of condemnation without truly knowing the hell that her life had been, how dare he judge her from his seat of privilege while she had to crawl on the ground to obtain everything with her own hands. The decisions that had torn her soul apart to keep a balance in Reznic's underworld were not something that anyone besides herself could understand. Besides how many upper-crusters killed girls in the brothels just because they could? And why do I get to be condemned because of killing two farmers that provoked me? Hypocrites.

"Yeah, I know what you are thinking; why me? There are other people committing crimes all over the place, but you chose to punish me!" Arzed said in an exaggerated manner obviously mocking her current thoughts. Then he continued.

"Up until now the RCAE was supposed to be the one to dispense punishment towards essence users, but we just didn’t have the resources to do it. The best we could do was kill some who had obviously become mass murderers or those whose crimes were so heinous that have even given birth to horror stories in certain areas of the continent. I could probably count those with two hands in the last two hundred years since the cataclysm. There are a lot of other essence users breaking laws, becoming small dictators in their own corners of their world and the countries are allowing this behavior because every essence user is a weapon that could be used against their enemies. So the stupid countries would not cooperate in apprehending what they called a "necessary evil" he said those last words with some true derision slipping into his tone.

Ekatrina considered herself practical in using her essence skills as a show of force, she used her strength only when necessary since she knew it could cause the country to send its armed forces toward her and this would have put an end to her comfortable life.

"Take for example guard Fiona there, she hates your type and I don’t mean essentialists since she is one herself. Thanks to irresponsible essence users like yourself her life was ruined, which is actually a story that you hear pretty commonly in some countries with a less organized government than St. Shurrelle. Either way, her village became destitute because a petty dictator of an essentialist had taken over the area and was collecting exorbitant taxes. When the petty dictator detected that she was an essence user on her sixteen birthday, the user wanted to make her a follower of hers since the Essentialist had ambitions of leading something bigger than just a couple of villages in the boonies, this meant that she needed the manpower that essentialist could bring her"

Ekatrina knew of some of these countries but thought that they were just barbaric remnants of a time past.

"So what did she do to accomplish her ambitions? She started collecting any girls that showed the skills of an essentialist, of course, far-removed villages don't have that big of a population and any that she found was like finding a golden nugget after sifting through tons of dirt. Especially if they had the potential to become a strong Essentialist capable of doing more than just party tricks with their future skills. This Essentialist knew that she needed to submit Fiona before she taught her how to use her powers, so what did she do? Basically, what any bully does when they have power over others, take things by force. The essentialist kidnapped her parents and sister. Almost immediately she killed her parents in front of her and held her sister in an underground dungeon as an assurance of her obedience, then she locked Fiona in a room where she was starved and physically abused for almost a year, not even teaching her any use of her essence skills. When she got an opportunity to escape she did it, sadly it was a trap to see if she had been broken enough to be taught. As a lesson, the bully did once again what it did best, take by force. He killed her sister in front of her, so you see Miss Grenier as to why she has a particular distaste for those who use their powers for personal gains"

Prev: 12. Ekatrina - Unjust?

Next: 14. Ekatrina - Everybody has a story

Extra Pics: Fiona Hill

____________________________

I swear I am trying to make the shorter my goal is to make them less than a thousand words so that it's not such a chore to read them....sighhhh

Also that would be easier for me to do. Oh well you get more to read until I figure how to do it properly.

Either way like always let me know what you think of the story, I need to make some art to show for Fiona.

Zernasss