Kassia POV
I pick up the pair of pliers. I can’t start too aggressively. Meryl is not the demon I made him out to be in my head. He’s an old man and his body will break easily. But there’s more than one way to torture someone. I promised Helios I wouldn’t kill him right away, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have a little fun.
“Tie him up,” I tell Gonzalo. I need him here like I need blood to live. His presence stabilizes me. He stops the flashbacks from taking over. Gonzalo hands Meryl to Theo while he begins adjusting the table. It is a thing of beauty really. The table could be elevated, extended, and rotated to any degree and several contraptions brought forward that can be used to restrain someone to the flat surface. It was a perfect interrogation room down to the drainage grates on
