08-21-2012, 02:03 AM
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There wasn't much that he could do but comply. He deserved this. He deserved nothing better than to be a slave. He fell limp as the fight seeped away. He thought of Jean, and momentarily sorrow filled him. He thought he'd found a place to die, but the other had left this world first, leaving him once again, utterly alone. The memory was still fresh, and the wound still ached. He'd run away, once again, and found himself ensnared in the spider's web. He would only waste his energy to do anything more than lay and wait—and so he did.