The blaze danced across the repulsive space, engulfing everything in its asphyxiating embrace.

The torrid heat reduced the dried crusts of blood once splattered on the confining walls to mere flakes of ash, entwining with the flaming embers as they fluttered in the air, the memory of gore behind them left forgotten.

Scorched masses laid in heaps now in lieu of the forms that had writhed in agony, their earsplitting cries broken off as they ultimately succumbed to the flames that rendered all forms of escape futile. Their indistinct visages no longer wore the contorted expressions that betrayed the definition of humanity; their bodies charred to the extent that one might wonder if it had burned away the abhorrent sins of the corrupted soul that it had once contained within.

The rattling of chains resounded amidst the roaring of fire, the motion induced by the shuddering that followed the empty mirth which had risen at the spectacle that unfolded before her. Blood trickled down the manacles that bound each of her limbs, the radiance of the flames granting it an eerie scarlet glow.

As her broken body was shackled by the thick chains that were driven deep into the chamber walls, her mind was enslaved by a voice that hounded her endlessly, overpowering her scarcely remaining cognizance in its wake.

Burn.

The flames reached up and licked the deep gashes prominent all over her flesh where blood still oozed at the slightest of movements, eventually enveloping her in a warm cocoon of fire. The waves of pain ebbed to nothing more than a pleasant tingling sensation as the fire receded to encircle around her, almost as if it had a will of its own. The wounds that ravaged her had vanished without a trace, her unmarred skin leaving the impression as though it had never even existed.

The havoc in her mind abated as she immersed herself in the short-lived salvation that had graced her with its presence after the sea of flames had died down to lingering fragments of ember. The voice that harried her was replaced by tranquil silence.

As she let herself unwind, her consciousness began to slip out of her weakening grasp. Without the blaze of the fire, the chamber plunged into darkness, the only remaining source of illumination being the slivers of moonlight emitted by the crescent moon hanging in the barren night sky, entering through the narrow gaps of a barred window.

The last thing that entered her bleary field of vision was a pair of gleaming sea-hued eyes before she let herself sink into oblivion.