Cleaning Up - Part 17

"Then go all the way, Vessel," Pandora said. "There is no reason to conserve your health any longer. Take the gamble that you were hesitant to take earlier. Though I might have been ambitious with my earlier teachings, there is still much that you have learned that you have yet to use. Let us both see it. Show your might, without restraint. Allow it to reach our Mistress Pandora, all the way up in the heavens."

'True enough…' Vol thought, as the pain wracked him. The Earl's talk of torture was the only thing that seemed to be keeping the man from exploding. The viciousness in his eyes spoke his true desires. To have those snatched away from him at the very last second. The Earl would hate that. Even Vol's death would be an act of defiance. And with the System in his hands, it was something that he was very much capable of.