Clarissa’s P.O.V.

Time seemed to pass by slowly as I laid in the cell pondering the many ways I would kill them all. Especially my traitorous father. The council members came in now and again to admire the prize captured, and on more than one occasion, I heard them praising my father for catching the monster.

If anyone was a monster, it was them.

The unlocking of my cage sounded in the darkness, and a tiny bit of light gave way to the giant figure of a man I had come to ...