Ch. 3: Closure
I looked them over, hanging there from the wall, neither one able to move. Helpless. Hopeless. I hefted the meat hook and looked at the army boy. There was a wet stain on the front of his pants where he had pissed himself. I looked at the princess and lifted the knife, licking some of the blood off, smearing some on my face. She was crying almost continuously. Thinking of these two and what they had done to me, how they had made my life hell for the past month, I felt the rage build up within me. It was the kind of rage that you only see once in a lifetime. The kind that kills.
I moved toward the princess and grinned at her. She tried to move away but she wasn't going anywhere. She couldn't fight and she couldn't flee. I could feel the terror emanating from her. She would be crazy with fear by the time I was done.
I moved from her to the army boy, watching he eyes move back and forth between anger and fear, neither winning. Yet. Soon, though, fear would be ahead by a landslide. I ran the tip of the meat hook down his cheek, watching a small rivulet of blood stream down to his neck.
"Not so tough now, are you," I asked, my voice a dangerous whisper. He shook in his bonds, making me chuckle. I slashed the knife downward and made a long, shallow cut in his chest, watching the blood ooze out. May pushed her way in front of me and dropped to her knees, licking the blood off of his stomach. She turned to me and smiled, her mouth a perfect crimson circle.