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Detention, Depths of the Castle, Wednesday

The good news for everyone in detention was that there wasn't any sign of singing going on on the island today, so everyone could be spared from any further embarrassing admissions that they'd rather not have made.

The bad news was for everyone in detention was, well, they were all still in detention. But surely, it was getting easier to deal with over time?

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"She will not behave," Raven said gravely. "So she must be punished. And since she is not here, I will punish you instead, and it is all her fault."

"Not her fault. She is a good Queen," Cassidy murmured. "Karla will do what is best for her people and the land." She eyed Raven. "You can't hurt her. She has more power than you do."

There might have, unwisely, been a smile creeping across Cassidy's face at that.

[[OOC: I am asleep, too, because I didn't even notice.]]

"She does not," Raven snapped, hand snaking out to seize Cassidy by the throat. "She is weak and pathetic. As are you without your precious land to sustain you."

Cassidy's smile wasn't exactly sane.

"Karla can beat you," she sing-songed. "She has her power and her sanity and is free like the birds."

Raven flung Cassidy back against the wall and started to laugh. "Is that what you think?" she said. "You have not seen here as I have. Her power is weak and her mind is fractured and if she were truly free, she would have returned to her home by now. She is trapped, and her cage is just bigger than yours."

Cassidy hit the wall with a small cry of pain. She pushed her hair out of her face to look up at Raven.

"It's what I know," she said with a rare show of confidence. "If she were truly broken like that, you would not be so angry. Karla is caged only by her determination to fight against people like you and that pink-clad tainted daughter of a whoreson bitch that you serve so faithfully."

"Oh, you have spirit now," Raven said, trying to let Cassidy know her words were true. She was growing more angry, each day she failed to twist someone like Karla or Jono and instead they got under her skin.

"All the more pleasure to me, then, to break it down." She called her Soul-Self forth, its black edges shimmering with red and gold, and let it loom over Cassidy. "I will strip your mind bare and find your darkest fears, and I will make them come true," she promised.

Even as she stared up at Raven, looking as brave as she could, part of her was inwardly recoiling from Raven's threat. She knew how stronger people like Sookie usually were after an afternoon of Raven's attention.

"I have no more hidden fears," she said rashly. "Everything that I have ever feared has come to pass. I'm a broken witch, unable to reach my Jewels, basic Craft or even touch the land that feeds my soul. What more can you do to me?"

It was stupid and brave ... and also untrue.

"You are not truly broken, not yet," Raven said. And she would know. "You still have hope, just a tiny bit, that you will touch the land again, and reclaim your jewel. Let us see how brave you are when that hope dies."

She made her Soul-Self wrap around Cassidy, trying to plunge her into her darkest nightmare.

Cassidy shook her head, eyes full of fear as she tried to scramble away from Raven. Her small amount of hope was what had kept her hanging on through everything.

"No," she whimpered. "You can't do that."

It was obvious that she wasn't going to be able fight against Raven for very much longer.

Within her Soul-Self, Raven could make someone's fears manifest. The walls around them vanished, replaced by lush green grass, tall trees, and vibrant flowers. But the smell of rot was in the air, and the trees fell and the grass withered and the flowers dropped their petals and died. The ground itself swarmed with worms and bugs.

And in Cassidy's hand, a tiger-eye jewel the crumpled to dust and blew away in the wind.

"No," Cassidy whispered, seeing the land dying around her. It was worse. She could feel it dying and the feel of it was draining her own energy.

She curled her hand around the jewel in her hand and then screamed as it turned to dust and blew away. The breaking of the jewel felt like something inside her was breaking.

Her Jewel had shattered and the land was dying.

"No!" Cassidy screamed, trying to deny what she was seeing and feeling. She tried to make it not be real. "NO NO NO!"

"Take my hand, Cassidy," Raven whispered in her ear. "Take my hand and I will rescue from all this. You will be safe and strong and the land will be whole again. Just take my hand."

"No," she said softly. "You can't fix this. It's wrong and you can only destroy the land, not fix it."

There were whimpers of fear coming from her throat.

Raven was beside her in her mind and the blackening landscape, holding out her hand. "I will take you from here to a better place," she said, almost quivering as she drank in that fear. "One where there is life and light."

Cassidy knew that she shouldn't trust Raven, but her Jewel shattering to dust in her hand and the rotting of the land had her reaching towards Raven's hand, her body trembling.

Raven jerked her hand back at the last second. "No," she said. "No, I think not. I think I will leave you here tonight, all alone. And then perhaps tomorrow you will be more compliant."

"No!" Cassidy screamed. "No, you can't leave me here!"

Cassidy screamed again, looking for a way to escape what Raven had done to her. Everything dying, her jewel gone, her life dying as the land died.

It was all too much for her on top of everything else and she just curled up in a ball and screamed.

"Good-bye, Cassidy," Raven said, voice dripping with sweetness as she retreated from the landscape she'd created. Her Soul-Self released Cassidy, leaving her huddled on the floor, trapped in her own mind.

She leaned over her and placed a kiss on her forehead. "I will see you tomorrow," she promised.

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