Six Sentence Sunday - November 28th

Here's another snippet from my novelette, Celestial Trigon, a free read on my website. http://www.marshaamoore.com

After battling much opposition, Martin, the grand wizard, finally discovers where his love, Heike, is being held against her will by an alchemist trained in dark arts.

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At the doorway he gasped at the horrid sight. His beautiful love lay bound to an old wooden work table, stripped naked. Wide leather straps cut deeply into the soft skin of her bare waist. Her wrists and ankles were smeared with blood from her efforts against the bondage. Her face was flushed and damp with perspiration from struggle, her ankles tethered wide apart.

Seeing Martin, Heike strained hard against the restraints, her cries muffled with the gag in her mouth.

Glancing again across the tortured body of his love, he bent down feeling the urge to wretch, but instead became distracted by the chalk outline of a pentagram drawn on the wooden floor surrounding the torture table.

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