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⏰️ Kas (from the caverns)

(TW for child abuse)

"Kasora!"

Kasora heard the head matron bark her name, and immediately bolted. She had once again neglected to do the extra duties assigned to her as punishment- She was in trouble no matter what.

She'd long since given up doing her best and listen and be obedient. Even when she tried, tried to follow in the steps of her praised peers, it just wasn't enough.

It took four matrons to find her, and one of the cavern guards to actually catch her, which was a new record. Kasora even made sure the guard regretted it by biting his hand hard enough to draw blood.

She was dragged into the dining room with two matrons, plus the head matron, and another guard leaning on the wall. They sat her down in a chair while the head matron began to yell at her.

How dare she run. How dare she bite one of the guards that kept her safe. Blah blah blah. Kasora let her attention drift to a beetle trundling along the dining room floor.

"Kasora! Are you listening to me?!"

"Yes, head matron." Kasora parroted for what felt like the thousandth time in her life. Apparently her tone wasn't quite right, or maybe it was because she looked away across the dining room instead of at the matron. Next thing she knew, the matron's old wrinkled hand shot into her peripherals and the old crone was smacking her across the face. The two other matrons in the room gasped.

That finally brought Kasora's gaze to the head matron. The old woman was jade in the face, small lips shriveled into an enraged little frown, jowls quivering as she shook with fury.

"You will fix that attitude of yours!" Snarled the head matron, pointing a bony, wrinkled finger in Kasora's face.

That was enough.

"You fix your attitude!" She snapped back, gripping the edges of her seat with tiny hands. "You hit me! You push me around and you don't care how I feel!"

"What you feel does not matter!" Roared the head matron.

"Why not?! How come what you feel is the most important thing in the world, but what I feel means nothing?!"

The head matron inhaled and Kasora prepared for another enraged lecture. But instead the old woman whirled around and stormed towards the door. "I am through with you."

As she passed by the guard leaning by the doorway, she spoke again. "Cull her."

"H-Head matron, let's not be hasty!" One of the other matrons darted over, laying a hand on the older woman's shoulder, but she would not be halted. Kasora stared, eyes wide at the head matron's turned back as she disappeared through the door, the other matron desperately trying to convince her to change her mind.

The guard waited for a few moments, and then sighed and straightened. He drew the sword on his belt, and the last matron raised her hands, stepping between the guard and Kasora.

"Let's- Let's wait, please- Not here- There are other wrigglers-"

"Orders are orders. She'll make a good example of what not to do." The guard stepped forward. The matron didn't move.

"Don't make me kill you, too." The guard tilted his head, adjusting the weapon in his hand. The matron hastily stepped aside.

Kasora jumped off the chair and attempted to run. She saw a cluster of other wrigglers peeking around the other door, crowding around each other, trying to see. A few of them ran when Kasora spotted them. The guard grabbed Kasora's ponytail and yanked.

Kasora screamed and batted at the guard's hand. She saw him lifting the sword, the blade catching the candlelight as he began to bring it down towards her neck.

She squeezed her eyes shut and willed a wall of stone to form from the ground around her, raising up so quickly that it bashed the guard's arm and forced him to let go. The rocks closed up around her, forming a small sealed dome.

Kasora curled up, hands over her head, sobbing. She didn't know what to do. He was going to kill her, as soon as she came out. Muffled, she heard the guard swearing and there came a few thuds on the dome.

She eventually heard other voices outside her dome, but she was too busy sobbing uncontrollably to listen. She cried until she couldn't anymore- And then it seemed like hours after that passed. Exhausted, thirsty, and hungry, she eventually fell asleep curled up on the cold floor.

Kasora woke to a loud thud on the side of her dome, rattling the whole thing.

She froze, immediately alert. There came another thud, and some rocks and dust rained down on her. She heard a muted voice from outside.

Kasora slammed her palms on the side of the dome opposite from where she'd heard the thud, disintegrating the stone with a touch and trying to run- Only to collide with a guard. Multiple trolls were gathered around, and it didn't take long for her to be collected and locked in some small room. It wasn't her own room, like they usually locked her in. This one was bare and dark.

She was left alone for another hour, and then finally the door opened.

One of the matrons came in holding a tray, shutting the door behind her. She knelt and set the tray down, watching Kasora. Kasora didn't move from her position curled tightly in the corner.

"Come eat, Kasora. Please." The matron seemed tired, but her voice was gentle.

There was a bowl of soup, some bread, and a cup of water on the tray. Kasora unfurled herself and slunk over, sitting down across from the matron to silently eat.

"The head matron has decided to send you to another part of the cavern instead." The matron began. "Please...Please mind your manners there, Kasora. We only want the best for you."

"No you don't." Mumbled Kasora bitterly, and tore a chunk of bread off the loaf with her teeth. "You just want me to do what I'm told."

"If you don't do what you're told," the matron said slowly, struggling to find the best words. "They'll kill you. None of us want to see that. Please, Kasora. Please just listen."

The matron reached carefully across the tray to take Kasora's hand. Kasora couldn't bring herself to look up at the woman, her pleading tone making it difficult to say anything back. She didn't move or speak until the matron finally let go of her hand, and then she continued to eat.

The matron waited, staring at her own hands in her lap, and then when Kasora was done she took the tray and left without another word.

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