Ryder She was standing there in the King’s office doing the math in her head as he spoke, listening to him state the punishments that would be dealt out to the one who had sent them all to that hell in the realm. Set them up to suffer and die in that place. She’d seen many die over the years there with and without the mark on their forehead. Six years she’d been in that hell, so 60 years in prison for that, 20 years for each beating she’d gotten, she recalled 15 beatings, so that was 300 years. Five years for every time she’d been fed upon that was like 15 or 20 times a year for four of those years. They’d not started letting themselves be fed upon, until their own numbers hadn’t been enough, to take on more than two vampires at a time. So that was 450 to 600 years. So, the punishment