Captive!

[Northen Light36]

"Ugh..." Acqua groans softly in pain as she begins to come to. The pain in her head is enough to make her want to pass out again. Instead she tries to touch her water sign and discovers the shackles binding her arms. On the bright side, terror is apparantly a good pain killer. Desperate, Acqua struggles with her bonds.

[adris]

Burak entered the room after hearing the rattle of her shackles. He just stood there and watched for a moment, smiling. In one of his hands was a leather whip, in the other there was a chain, half of it regular steel, the other half serrated with small bumps, not enough to puncture the skin to the casual touch though. On his belt was a small wooden mace, which looked like nothing more then a meat tenderizer.

"I hope you slept well Acqua, you certainly are a little angel if it wasn't for that shiner above your eye."

He reached into a drawer nearby and hung some more shackles on hooks already drilled stably into the wall, making it clearly obvious what they were for after he had hung them up. He then turned to her and sat on the edge of the bed, outside of reach for a swift kick.

"So, how does one get punished for taking a life?"

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With some effort, Acqua manages to sit up. Despite her terror, the thief manages to glare at Burak. "I don't know what the hell you're talking about," she snarls. Ren is a long buried memory and her memory of Burak's last words is still too foggy to force her to recall those half-forgotten memories.

[adris]

Burak stands up and walks back to the end of the bed, looking like he is seriously considering something. He turns back to Acqua, looking at her as she forces herself to stay in an uncomfortable sitting position. He simply shakes his head as he watches her, as if she were some creature to be pitied.

"It doesn't matter the forces know what I mean, and thats what is important here."

Almost immediately he unfurls his whip, swinging its stinging head at Acqua and allowing it to connect wherever it pleases. He repeats this motion two more times, giving her a quick reminder of the first. He then strides over to her, seeing how much she is still willing to kick. He wants to transfer her to the standing shackles.

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Acqua bites her lip and manages to keep from more then flinching at the first two lashes. The third one, however, catches the exposed skin on her neck and produces a pained yelp. "Bastard," she hisses as he strides over. Eyes bright with fear and anger, Acqua kicks out at Burak, glad that for once she actually wore her boots.

[adris]

Burak tries to hide his hand as he removes the mace from his belt. He moves close enough that when she kicks he striked down hard enough to make her think about kicking again. If she did, he would strike again. He would accept necessary pains from her fighting back as he made his way closer and closer to her, waiting until she withdrew her retaliation.

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Acqua cries out in agony as the mace lands on her leg. Pale with pain, Acqua jerks her legs away from her tormentor but the fight hasn't been beaten out of her yet. She manages to use her cheek to push her shirt off her water sign and, resting her cheek on said sign, she chants and sends the most powerful blast of water she can manage at Burak, twisting her bound wrist painfully to aim at him.

[adris]

The blast of water makes Burak slip off the side of the bed, but he rises swiftly and with anger in his eyes. He returns her water attack with an electric bolt from his storm sign, once again it was enough to make her remember it, but not enough to knock her out if she was as feisty as she seemed. The way he is able to judge his attacks might give one the idea that this wasn't the first time he has ever done this sort of thing.

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Acqua screams in pain as the attack hits her. When the burning agony dies down to a throbing pain through out her body and agony in her bleeding leg, Acqua just draws herself into a ball and shivers with fear. She's too proud to beg to be let go, and she knows it's probably pointless, but she still looks pleadingly at Burak. "What do you want?" she asks fearfully.

[adris]

Burak comes close to her, cautiously to see if her fear was real. He reached out to touch her face, which he stroked with an awfully tender touch. That was short lived when he gave her a quick and very audible slap across the cheek. He worked at her shackles to free her wrists, one at a time, making sure she was always close enough to be struck again.

"I want you to hurt... I want you to beg," He yanks hard on her wrists to pull her ear close to him, "I want you to suffer."

He stands, and does what he can to yank her to her feet. He had made a mental note of where her water sign was when she touched it. Whenever she struggled enough to get too far out of his grasp he would lightly connect it to the storm sign on his upper left arm and pull it off before even a second passed. He roughly shoved her against the wall with the standing shackles and went to immediate work rebinding her.

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Acqua did attempt to struggle free once, but the sheer agony of Burak brushing his sign against hers is enough to put an end to that quickly. She doesn't have a death wish.

"You won't get away with this," she hisses, hating how pathetic that sounds. "When my family finds out about this you'll be the one hurting."

Secretly, Acqua's fighting a very real fear that no one will come looking. Vortai's gone for who knows how long, Amaro's not expected back until summer and considering the mood she was still in when she returned Spice to Alethia, Acqua wouldn't blame her and Talon for thinking she'd run off again. The thought makes her have to choke back a sob.

[adris]

Burak just sneered, he had no fear that anyone would come searching for her. Even if they knew she was missing neither she nor he were important enough for a true search to be launched. He bound her wrists again above her head, the shackles high enough to force her to be on her feet even when slouching.

"I don't plan on living forever, I will be caught one day. It will be too late to take back today though. Far too late."

He goes to start removing her clothes, he wants the sting of the whip and bite of the chains to truly be felt on her flesh. Her pants came off first, and he cut her shirt off with a knife, and removing her boots as well. He left her standing there with nothing but her undergarments left, looking at her and spitting.

"I wonder what Ren thought about you to think that body was worth it, its an eyesore if you ask me."

He took a few steps away and turned swiftly, giving the whip yet another crack against her body.

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Acqua shivers, feeling helpless and vunrable clad in nothing but her underwear. She shivers in a mixture of fear and cold, grimacing in disgust as Burak spits at her. That's usually her trick. His comment about Ren finally clued her into what this was about, making her feel sick. Before she could say anything though, the whip connected sharply with her ribs and she cried out in pain.

"I suppose... horses... are more... to your taste?" Acqua manages to quip, despite the pain. "Or maybe... it was that... would-be murdering bastard... Ren who was... to your taste." Instantly she braces herself for the beating of a lifetime.

[adris]

Burak ground his teeth in anger at her comment, but only a second and only when his back was turned to the girl. He was able to turn around looking relatively cool and calm, looking her over mostly to check her breathing rate.

"Ren wasn't my type sadly, but blood is thicker then water and all that you know," he finished that statement with another flick of his whip, watching in delight as it connects yet again.

"And if I were into animals, you wouldn't hurt my eyes so much mutt," he flicked his wrist again, making her feel the light sting of his whip. He then put it down on the cabinet, lest he forget his other toys, and strode up slowly, his mace in one hand his special chain in the other. He stopped short of the girl for a moment though.

"But that is a good game you suggested isn't it? With animals and all... lets play that one then since you insisted. You already are a bitch, now lets see if I can't make you sound like one as well."

He moved up carefully, keeping an eye on her legs in case she kicked any more. He didn't have any binds for her legs, the purpose was to demoralize her to the point where he simply doesn't need them. With his mace ready to parry a kick he lashes out heavily with the chain right into her gut.

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Acqua cries out in pain as the chain connects, trying to double over in agony but held upright by the chains. Her eyes well up with tears as she, practically on reflex, kicks at Burak, then screaming as the mace connects with her leg. Fury builds in her mind and, just like she'd done back in Flux, she latches on to it. Fury at Burak, at Ren... At Amaro and Vortai for leaving... At herself, for forgeting that the first law of the streets is trust no one. 'Anger's good. Anger can sheild,' she thinks dimmly and glares at Burak.

"I can tell... you're related... to that arse..." she manages to growl out. "Cowardness must run in the blood."