“Oh Mark…….. oh Markkkkkk………” Nora let her tears fall as she smiled facing him fearlessly “You wanted to know why your family didn’t come here right? You wanted to know whether they were safe or not ri………Hmmmmphhhhhhh….. hmphhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh……”

  Nora couldn’t say anymore as her mouth was sealed shut by Mark, with one of his shadow hands, who expressionlessly stared at her.

  “Do you think you are in some drama, where I will give you a chance to say your bullshit, not knowing whether it is true or not, huh? I have thousand means to find out about my family, and believe me, you are not one of them, at least the moment Noah died, you ceased to become that person. So wait and watch, next is your mother’s turn, and because of your brazenness, I am going to make her life even more miserable.”

  And hearing him, Nora felt as if cold diced water had hit her hard and awakened her from the dream which she seconds before was going through.

  And that dream awakening was harsh, harsher than she had thought.

  As if to show how real his words were, Mark began by changing Nora and Natalia’s position.

  Natalia high in the air, while Nora lying on the ground just beneath her, but before both of them could understand what Mark wanted to do, answer came to them.

  A black razor sharp shadow came out of Mark’s behind and it sliced through Natalia’s feet, peeling her sole from the left leg.

  Only sole and nothing else, but that was enough to let dread fill in the surroundings as Natalia’s scream rang, while the sole that had separated and the blood that was spilling, all fell on Nora’s face, drenching her from her mother’s red blood.

  The sight was so gruesome that it was indescribable, yet it was happening.

  “AHHHHHHHHHHHH……… MY LEG………. MY LEGGGGGGGGGG…… GODDDDDDDDDDDDD………. MY LEGGGGGGGGGGGGGG……..” Natalia screamed so hard that her larynx could be heard tearing.

  It was painful, so painful, but before she could scream more, she saw the same black razor sharp shadow again moving, and again it struck the leg and again it torn off one inch more of her feet part, and again the blood bathed Nora lying down before, who gurgled, shook her body, moved her head to wash of the blood, she even wanted to scream hard, but the blood, oh the blood just did not let her, and all that made her even more miserable.

  As finally she realized what Mark was doing, he was slicing her mother inch after inch and bathing her on her blood deliberately to show her the consequences.

  And now that she knew the consequences, once again she wanted to do nothing but strangle her previous self, go back in time, and just end her life.

  But there was no medicine for regret in this world, and she was learning this lesson the hard way.

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  While Natalia’s screams had now turned into incoherent wails, all she was doing was squealing and yelping and sobbing and begging, but no matter what she did, nothing worked.

  As the shadow kept slicing and part of leg kept falling alongside the blood that slapped her daughter’s face every time they fall, until their remained no left leg of her.

  A relief went through Nora’s essence when she saw that, but that relief turned into horror when the shadow struck the right leg sole.

  The terror that filled both Nora and Natalia was indescribable, it was as if their worst nightmare had come to life, and it had, and that nightmare was Mark, who showed no mercy, and expressionlessly cut Natalia’s second leg, piece by piece, inch by inch, he cut, cut and cut, until there remained nothing but top portion of Natalia’s body.

  But Mark still wasn’t done, as he grabbed Natalia’s left hand, and seeing this Nora went so crazy that she started shaking like hell, trying to get out of Mark’s blackened hands, to save her mother from what was about to come next, but the grip, oh the grip, it was so tight, that forget about getting out, she could barely move in her place, and kept shaking her middle body.

  While Natalia had literally lost herself from the world, the pain was radiating so much from her very essence that whatever that was happening, she was oblivious to all, as then it happened.

  Like a cruel griller, the black shadow struck, and with a spill of a blood and the five fingers flew in the sky, and with that rang the grilling scream.

  AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH…………..

  But it wasn’t Natalia that screamed, it was Nora. Not minding the blood, not minding the gore, she just screamed, screamed and screamed, in pain, in anger, in frustration, but no matter how much she screamed the shadow didn’t stop, one by one, piece by piece it cut, until there remained no left hand, and then the turn of her right hand came, and slowly even that was gone.

  So their Natalia hung in middle of the sky with nothing but her upper body, but even after going through all this, she was still alive, it was like a miracle, but for Nora, it was nothing but a nightmare. She wanted nothing but her mother dead, as soon as possible, and nothing more.

  But as if the world just wanted to prolong her misery, Natalia just didn’t die, as finally the four hands grabbed Natalia’s head skin, and seeing this Nora lost it.

  “NO MARK YOU CAN’TTTTTTTTTTTT……… YOU CANTTTTTTT…….. YOU HAVE TORTURED HER ENOUGHHHHHHHHHH……. ITS MY TURN MARKKKKKKKKKK……. ITS MY TURRNNNNNNNNNNNN…….. LEAVE HER ALONE MARKKKKKKKKKK……. LEAVE HER ALONEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE……….. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…….”

  Helplessly Nora watched as the sound of tearing rang in the surrounding and the blood poured out of her mother’s body fell directly onto her face, but as if that wasn’t enough, next her entire peeled skin fell on top of her, as like a doll then she saw her mother getting thrown into the fiery water, where the moment she fell, her final scream rang.

  AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH……

  It was a gruesome scream, it was a heart-wrenching scream, and it was the final scream that her mother let out, she had no idea from where the power for that scream came to her mother, but it did came out, and it came out so loud and clear, that it shattered her from inside out.

  As in front of her eyes she saw her mother getting eaten alive by the fishes, the same fishes who ate her brother.

  For a moment, she felt this relief that her brother wasn’t alone, that her mother was there to accompany him in the heaven, that finally it had all ended for them, that finally it had all ended for them, that finally it had all ended for them.

  But not for her, her ordeal was just getting started, her death was next to come, and for some reason she felt no fear, it was as if everything that she could go through, she had already gone through.

  The mental anguish that she went through, compared to that, she felt no dread for her upcoming physical ordeal.