As I lay here, chains uselessly restraining me to this cave and a stomach having not been fed for years, I wish I could leave.

  Everyday is agony as they pull the scales from my flesh. Like pulling a fingernail out, the pain is almost insanity inducing, but I can not rebel. I must stay, for if I leave, if I fight back, if I kill the men doing this to me… then they will kill him. The only human I decided to love. The only one I have ever found worthy of my love, but these vile humans show me that he is wholly unique

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  Making him all the more worthy of my protection

  Of my sacrifice, the pain is worth it if it means he lives.

  So I sit

  In anguish

  Awaiting the day of my revenge