“Unhand me, you unnatural thing!” I screamed at him. “I will not be told what I can and cannot do by a creature so abominable that he must keep me here in chains to keep me at all.” “You don’t mean it.” His jaw clenched. “Say you don’t.” “I should have dissected you and sold your corpse to the museums,” I seethed. “They would applaud me for slaying such a beast. The world, in turn, would have been brighter if I had removed your stain earlier. That is where my mistakes begin and end when it comes to you, Creature.” The pain in his eyes was like nothing I had ever seen.
