I braced myself as I walked towards where he was standing. The closer I got to him, the shorter he seemed to appear.

My body froze as I spotted the scarred man being tied to some logs of wood. Besides him were the bodies of the dead girls, but he wasn't dead yet. He was still alive but would die any moment from now, as I spotted a guard going towards them with a torch of fire in his hand.

His face held horror but at the same time, defeat as he closed his eyes shut when the flames ...