Alicia woke up feeling sore it took her a moment before she felt her surroundings. She was lying on something hard and cool, stone? Around her the air felt unnaturally cold as if the enviroment was trying to drain her body heat. She felt tired and for a couple of hours she didn't move her body unwiling to even try. After a couple of hours she recovered enough strenght and mental clarity, and so all the memories came back, the horror of the last night, her son in danger, the death of her mother, everything returning to torment her. She lifted her torso horrified and screaming only to realize her grim situation. She was in a room naked, it was dark and she could barely see beyond a couple meters, she was sitting in what seemed a round rocky table carved from the very rock of the room. Terrified she started to cry softly tears covering her cheeks. She didn't dare to move, if her last memories were truth then HE would be around, a part of her brain wished to convince itself that everything was a terrible nightmare, but she couldn't deny the truth.
While Alicia lamented her fate a door slowly opened with a creaking sound, her heart started to beat fast as she looked to the door shivering, arms around her knees, eyes wide open. A series of eerie green fires lighted on the ceiling illuminating the room. Alicia saw the room was around four meters deep and wide, the doors were made of dark wood, outside the chandlers and the rocky table she was in it was featureless, the rocky table had some strange symbols and carvings. Someone entered the room, two hooded dark figures headed towards Alicia.
"P-Please...please d-don't hurt me..."The figures ignored her and reached the stone altar then they lowered their hoods revealing their faces as female, however to Alicia's dismay the women had a pair of short horns each, black eyes with no white and long tails reaching to the ground, their skin was a cool grey and their lips and hair were a deep black, both were beautiful yet unsettling, their expressionless faces seemed like sculptures. The women tried to grab her, she backed crying.
"No!"
"Do not resist, or you would make things worse, we will force you if needed." Said one of the demons emotionless.
Alicia stood in her place shuddering until the creatures grabbed her and scorted her out of the room each holding one of her arms. They took her through long and labyrinthine corridors lighted by the same eerie lights, as they advanced they would encounter more and more creatures of different forms and sizes, all of them were grotesque and deformed amalgams of different human and animal shapes many acted like animals others could be identified as sentient by their gaze, many looked at Alicia's lewdly their intentions too evident but never acting on them, Alicia shrunk terrified. Finally they reached a massive stone door carved with all manner of symbols, the biggest one was an octopus shaped one similar to the one Alicia had in her chest, but surrounded by a circle and other runes, it caused Alicia to shudder again. One of the demonic women touched the door with her hand, the symbols of the door shined for some seconds and then the doors opened revealing a throne room, both sides were lined by draconic looking demons all carrying different weapons at the bottom of the room she saw him. Ahbramonias stood in a stone throne with two of the draconic demons at each side, for the first time Alicia saw him smile she felt every muscle of her body tense in response, but with the women holding her there was no use in trying to scape.
"Ah finally the sleeping beauty is awake, did you enjoy your sleep?" Said Ahbramonias in a mocking tone.
"Please... just let me go..." Pleaded Alicia crying.
"Let you go? After all the trouble I dealt with to get you." Ahbramonias laughed "No my dear you are my property now, the payment for your mother's live, in fact without my favor you wouldn't even have born, shouldn't you be thankful?" Alicia started to sob.
"Well then it's time to get started" said the demon "Guards, out, now!". The draconic demons walked out of the room throwing lascive gazes to Alicia, leaving only the women and Ahbramonias.
"Do you know where you are my dear?" asked the demon.
"I-I don't."
"You are in my palace, and you probably guessed where it's located, yes my dear you are in hell."That declaration broke something in Alicica, it was obvious from the beginning but making it vocal cemented her reality, she felt to the floor defeated.
"Now start the ritual!"
"Yes master." Replied the female demons dutifully.
"Ritual?..." Pondered Alicia.
"You will soon find out." said Ahbramonias. The female demons undressed revealing their lewd bodies and the many runes covering them, most importantly an octopus shaped one equal to the one in the door. They started to draw a circle in the ground around Alicia two meters wide making many strange symbols inside and outside of it. Alicia's instincts perceived danger though she didn't understand it, after the many circles and symbols were ready the women lighted many black candles and put them on the circle's edge, to Alicia it felt like a prison even if it wasn't a physical one.
"What is this?! What are you trying to do?!" Demanded Alicia.
"It's a simple binding ritual, meant to ensure the loyalty of a subject." Explained Ahbramonias.
"Loyalty?..." That increased the woman's anxiety about her fate.
"It's ready." Announced one of the female demons.
"Good you can proceed then." Answered Ahbramonias.
