The Second Act (2)

(TW: Violence and mentions of SA)

Celia was surprisingly calm for someone who was tied to a chair with no possibility of escape. There were armed guards lining an entire wall behind me and more on the other side of the door.

There was a room in the sewer system of Paris that I was now fond of using for things like this. Arin had told me about it. It was very out of the way, with walls so thick you couldn't hear in or out and it had a bolted door there were only two keys to. To top it off, it was a ghost room. It wasn't on any map or any of the city plans.

Which meant she could scream her lungs out and nobody but us could hear it.

"This is highly unnecessary," she started, moving her zip tied hands around. "If you wanted to speak to me, you could've just called."