The Khuna Apsara Arc: Scroll I - Breaking

Something is off with Kali, but I am unsure of what it is as I am trying to avoid scanning her thoughts. Often it is fun, but I do not care about that sort of thing right now. My mind is focused on a single activity... breaking the rest of the Grey Whisper's acolytes so that I can begin their reconstruction. The training of a Shyr Beis was a substantially longer process than this. A Shyr Beis' training took years to conduct as they are trained from childhood into adulthood. I have discovered that I can break the mind of an adversary to the point of submission such that the pain that they feel is so real that a true fear is produced in them. Then influencing their thoughts, they start to genuinely accept the training as the path to become closer to their Yaksa and as a means to repent for their transgressions against me. In all honesty, it is rather twisted and enjoyable to see the process. Since I have a growing mastery over my ability to ravage the mind of a target, this process of breaking them down to a mere shell of clay waiting to be molded as I see fit is becoming faster and faster. It is what I wish to show Kali. Looking over at Kali, I look towards the wall that I had come thru and turned towards the door instead. I grab a piece of ambrosia on my way out and tell Dainos to get me results and quickly. The sprite nods to me and I look to Kali, "Let's go. The acolytes aren't gonna break themselves." My demeanor is still as cold as ever as I do not even acknowledge the mortals. I take a bite of the ambrosia in my hand and it brings me quite a bit of comfort. Simply delicious. I would wait til we were outside to see if she would say anything first or if there was something on her mind that she wanted to discuss.

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Without warning, I speak telepathically, "You can stop trying to resist it, Kali. I could actually see right past this little disgusting defense if I so choose, but you will tell me when you are ready." I would exit her mind and speak aloud now, "I trust things have not been too difficult in my absence? Later, I have some new abilities that I will share with you. Something is amiss with you, Kali, and you do not have to tell me what it is, but it had better not interfere with you. Soon enough, I will turn my attention to the south and the conquering the rest of the island. I need you to be ready for battle and for doing what must be done. I cannot have you go weak and soft on me, just as you would never want me to go weak and soft on you." There is a devilish smirk that finds its way onto my face at that last comment.

We make it back to the courtyard and walk across the courtyard to the holding cell for the acolytes. They look at me and ask where I have taken their sisters. I chuckle and tell them that they will find out soon enough. Turning to the guards, I tell them in a cold tone, "Strip them and bind them. Do not damage or violate them. Also, they are to be fed a real meal. I want them to have plenty of energy for this." The guards nod and call over a couple more guards to come help out and as I turn to approach the door at the end of the hallway, the screams and yelps from the cell can be heard clearly. My guards knew the rules, so I did not worry about them. "Are you ready for this, Kali? I want you to see the creation of a Khuna Apsara."

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Standing at the door, I look back down the hall as I hear a scream that seems off. It is not the scream heard simply because one of them is being stripped of their clothing and dignity, this one is muffled, so I close my eyes and open my mind to the thoughts in that cell. One of them is pain and disgust, another is defiant pleasure. I am very displeased by this. I dash down the hall towards the cell and one of the guards gets his hand caught in the cookie jar so to speak. My eyes glow with a radiance of terror as his body is lifted into the air and his body shakes violently as if he is having a seizure as he tries to grip his head. The sound of him gurgling as his mouth fills with blood from his tongue which he bit down into gashing it open.

I release the mental ravaging of his mind and turn to the acolyte who was violated. "Let me teach you a lesson about obedience and retribution. You just lost that battle in which, he was able to enter you with his disobedient and disloyal fingers of his. Guards, strip him and bind him." The guards look at me and nod as they seize him and quickly reduce him to just his undergarments. I tell them to strip him so they reduce him to bare nude form. The shackles to the acolyte's bind are opened and she is signaled to approach me. She obeys and I tell her, "The only way to have order is to first have law and rules. My rule is simple... obey." With a spin of my wrist, the nude and bound guard is turned around with his face slammed into the stone wall of the cell. "Retribution is just as simple. He violated you, so you will do far worse to him or I will allow him to finish what he so foolishly started."

I take her index and middle fingers together and point at him. She gasps in horror as she looks at me wondering if I was indeed serious. I was. I focus her thoughts on the feeling of helplessness that she felt when he forced his fingers into her. Her fear turns into anger and disgust and with one stern command, "Obey!" She thrusts her fingers into him and he screams out in pain. She pushes her fingers as deep in as they can go before I turn to the main guard and ask him why my orders were not followed. He does not say anything and one of the other guards speaks out of turn and tells me that he told the guard not to do it, but he did it anyway. "But you did not stop him from disobeying me?" With fear gripping him, he cowers his eyes from me towards the ground and shakes his head. "On your knees." He kneels down next to the acolyte and I tell her that that is enough. She withdraws her fingers and that is not a pretty sight to behold. She looks for something to clean her fingers with and I tell her to use his face and point to the kneeling guard. She walks over to him but standing before him she hesitates. Standing behind her, I speak, "Never hesitate when you have the opportunity to neutralize your opponent." She nods to me and steps forward before she smears the mixed contents on her fingers over his face and his lips. She does her best to get all of it off of her and onto him. For a second, I honestly thought that she was going to shove her fingers into his mouth, but she doesn't and shoves them into his nose instead which is bad enough.

Now content with the punishment having been carried out, I tell the acolyte to kneel before her Yaksa. She turns around and obeys without hesitation. "Do you wish to know strength and power so that no one can take advantage of you?" She nods and I tell her, "Then you are the next to become one of my Khuna Apsara. I think you will be my Premika Dō. Guards, put those two in a cell. I just found two new training tools." There are looks of horror from both the guards and the other acolytes. All but one. I look at her and speak one word, "Follow." She rises, still nude and walks a few paces behind me. We return to the door, but I stop and look at Kali. Remembering the acolyte I tell her to kneel and she returns to her knees on the dirt walkway. "The first step is to remove them from comfort and strip them of dignity, so that personal value means nothing. Her life is valuable only in its service. An enemy's life is only as valuable as the information or ability to be manipulated and utilized is worth. And normally, obedience and retribution come later, but this was a special case. Sure you don't want to participate yet?" I figure now would be the time to test her resolve and see if she was truly ready. This was going to be fun. I wonder if Kali could handle wielding... "it".

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Nodding to Kali, I am genuinely pleased b/c her thoughts seem focused and not distracted allowing me to put my mind at ease and grant her more mental privacy. There is also something more beautiful about her when the sun starts to fall. My words are sincere as well when I address her, "Now that is my girl. Welcome to the training chamber." Turning to the kneeling nude girl, I speak to her coldly, "Rise and enter." She nods and gets back to a full vertical position before approaching the door that opens before her.

Once inside, the eyes can witness an apparatus directly in front of you where a female acolyte is strapped to it and a young woman dressed in black leather armor leggings and a scarlet undershirt that has blood stains on it. There are identical apparatuses on the east and west walls. The armored female has a short rod in her hand that is crimson in color and emits a low pitched wailing sound. When she strikes the acolyte, the wail's volume and screech increases. It is quickly accompanied by the screams of the young acolyte being broken. The lighting is dim created by floating orbs of energy. The nude acolyte is starting to rethink her position of willingly enduring this because the other acolyte who is a friend of hers seems to be in excruciating pain and the one inflicting the pain was the first of the acolytes who felt my wrath back in Renrut. "Kali, please prepare her on that altar there." My hand points to the apparatus on the east wall. The floor is dirt, but covered by a porous hide sort of material. The walls are thick stone covered in runes. A chandelier hangs from the ceiling to provide more lighting and a place to hang weapons and interrogation tools. This is my current training room here... you make due with what you have.

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I look over as Kali is "teasing" her I assume and make no quarrel with the action as it amuses me. I walk up to the acolyte and ask her, "Who do you serve?" She looks at me, but says nothing, so my eyes begin to glow as she screams out in pain at the force of my mind invading hers. I'm not even going at her with full power. She screams out in anguish, "I serve you, my lord." I chastise her, "I? You are nothing. You are without worth or purpose! Speak when spoken to!" The pain returns to her mind for a moment before it stops again. A sutra card appears in my hand and I place it on her stomach. It burns its way onto her flesh and I ask, "Who do you serve?" She quickly utters back, "You, my lord!" I look at Kali and shake my head. My right index finger points at the sutra card and she screams out again as it burns her abdomen. I create another one and she tries to cower away. "A Khuna Apsara has no fear of pain. She has no fear of death. Her only fear is failure! Pain is weakness leaving your body. Death means nothing if you are devoted to your yaksa." I throw the card at her and this one sticks to her stomach as well. "Who are you?" She speaks timidly, "My name is..." She stops speaking as she screams out in pain as the sutra card glows and I chastise her again, "Your name is whatever I give you, IF you survive." She breathes heavily and nods to me. Turning to Kali, I request, "Kali, make her bleed, but slowly. I want the pain to linger." This is a sadistic way of training, but it's called Breaking them for a reason after all and I truly enjoy it.

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