She woke slowly, the pain slicing through her skull as torches and candles blazed all around her. Quiet footsteps approached with a rustle of dusty skirts. Her eyes wouldn't quite focus and her mouth felt dry as tinder.
"I see you have finally decided to join us. We could proceed without you but this way is so much more fun!" The high thin giggle that followed her captor's words was less than sane and chilled Eve to the very marrow of her bones.
"Why am I here? What do you want with me?" Eve rasped, her voice sounding thin as paper. She began to test her bonds and discovered that she appeared to be resting on some type of stone table or altar and that her arms were stretched tightly above her head.
"You took something away from me and now you are going to get what you deserve." Eve gasped as the owner of the voice stepped into view.
"I could not possibly take from you something that was never yours to begin with. He never loved you Morgana." Maybe antagonizing her jailor wasn't the smartest course of action but the pain and fear had combined to take away Eve's inhibitions and make her feel a bit giddy and reckless. Eve tried to move her legs and realized that they were also bound and that she was wearing nothing but her thin silk shift.
"That might be but if not for you he never would have left to make his fortune and he would not have died far away from home on a fool's errand. Without you turning his head, he would have come to love me in time." The crazy and desperate giggles that followed this declaration terrified Eve almost as much as the icy cold touch of the dagger Morgana now used to prick the tender skin between her collar bones. A thin rivulet of blood tracked slowly down the side of her neck to drip on the cold stone beneath her. Tears burned in her eyes as memories flooded her mind.
"I never wanted him to go away." Eve murmured quietly. "I loved him whether he lived in a castle or in a mud walled hut. He believed that my family would never allow us to marry if he wasn't a wealthy man. You were nothing to him; less than nothing, a pest!" Eve's voice rose in volume until the last words were screamed in desperation. Morgana giggled again and shook her pale golden curls merrily.
"Your anger will get you nowhere, dear. I have given my body and my eternal soul to see my revenge carried out." The knife traced a chilly path down Eve's chest and between her plump heaving breasts. "No one can hear your screams and by the time anyone thinks to look for you, it will be finished." Morgana drew the knife further down Eve's body and punctuated the last few words by snapping the laces on her shift.
"What are you doing?" Eve began to struggle in earnest only succeeding in causing the wisps of silk to fall away, exposing her tightly pointed nipples. Morgana finished slicing her shift down the middle and quickly cut the ropes on her ankles. Eve kicked out, almost on impulse and connected with her captor's corseted ribs. Morgana grunted and grabbed Eve's ankles in a grip much stronger than it should have been. Hysterical laughter echoed off the damp stone walls as Eve became limp with shock and despair. "What have you done?" The tremble in Eve's voice only succeeded in making Morgana laugh harder as she proceeded to secure Eve's knees and ankles, pulling them so far apart that Eve was sure she would split in half. Morgana ran a sharp fingernail up Eve's shivering body as she leaned toward her face nearly close enough for a kiss. A red glow began to form in Morgana's eyes and Eve knew. Morgana had sold her soul to a demon in payment for her revenge on Eve. The voice that answered was a disturbing blend fading between Morgana's high soprano trill and a deeper more masculine growl.