It's a crime to be cute

"Amazing, don't you think?" 

Somewhere deep in the imperial palace, was an underground expanse that was akin to a church. But instead of pews, there was this enormous space, surrounded by huge pillars that stood in a circular formation. 

Each pillar had these connecting sunken lines on the concrete floor that all connected in the middle part, where another circle was sculpted under a cup. Over the middle part was a naked woman, littered with bruises and wounds, hanging with her hands tied from opposite directions. 

Her blood was trickling down her unmoving feet, dripping down into the cup below her. I couldn't see her face as it was hung low and her disheveled hair covering it, but even without seeing it, I could tell she was a step away from death. 

"Do you want to see her up close?" I snapped my eyes and twisted my neck to my side where Niall stood. "But that would change nothing." 

"What are you going to do with her?"