[Bonus chapter] Cherishing

For the next few days, Anastasia regularly visited Etaya in the celestial prison. She would use various tools to mark her torture but at the end of it she would heal Etaya with her magic. Ileus accompanied her every single day and watched her doing it. At first, he was surprised that she was healing her after every torture, and wondered what was the reason, but he never asked her. Later he realized what she was doing and why she was doing it.

Anastasia would heal Etaya after torturing her because she wanted to smoothen her skin to start giving her fresh marks of torment. His body shuddered at the thought that his wife had become so full of evil when she was around Etaya, but could he question her? No. The years of severe mental and physical pain Etaya had given her was no comparison to all this. And he also knew that she was taking revenge for what she did to Iona.