ACT ONE. the devil is real and he has a...tail!
CHAPTER xxiv. ❛ THE BARGAINING CHIP. ❜
the nest,
palace of elfhame.THE FIRST THING ALLURA DID WHEN SHE GOT TO THE NEST was tie Prince Cardan to the chair that sat behind his brother's desk. It's not as though he'd have any use for it. Surprisingly, the faerie had let her. Perhaps he was too drunk to scamper away, or maybe too afraid to go anywhere else. But he let her all the same, his eyes on her with every movement. Finding some old vines that dangled from the ceiling, she had bound his wrists together and his legs to the chair's. The girl moves forwards to remove his mask but when she does, he watches her with an odd look on his face. She blushes beneath the gaze and unfastens her own, a sudden twinge of sympathy biting at her.
"Is this too tight?" she can't help but to ask.
He gives a boyish smile. "You've kidnapped me and yet you care for my comforts?"
She turns away, ashamed of the kindness that got her into this situation in the first place. If only she was more like-
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