Shadow felt the thin sparkle of pain flush her cheek and the warm trickle that flowed from her broken skin and mingled with the fresh scent of his blood that drained from her lips… the pain she felt somehow filled her with a cleansing feeling… something special that they alone had shared in that moment, as they inflicted it upon each other.<br/><br/>She pushed the iron against the back of his eye socket, the metal clunked with a hollow sound as it hit the thin layer of bone that shield her from his brain.  The air sizzled with the reek of boiling blood and his body bucked at its fiery touch… she pulled it free and held it above him… her eyes were drawn to the cut Thorn had made with her teeth earlier against his nipple… not a wound that could be considered life threatening, but, well she had the iron to hand… with a smile she pressed it hard against his flesh, the reek of burning meat filled her nose as the skin blistered and blackened at its touch.  She lifted it free, a thin sliver of sizzling skin caught against the heated metal and pulled from his body.<br/><br/>Shadow paused for a moment against his burbled cry… her head cocked a little to the side as the shudder of effort to ‘speak’ caused renewed gobbets of blood to cascade from his maw… she walked slowly back to his face, her gaze pulled to his remaining eye which flickered fearful as her cool demeanour fell across him… and a cruel smile flecked her bloodstained face… “I know what you are thinking, I know beyond the crushing pain what is going on in your mind… I have seen it before… I have… felt it myself…” her hands slid across his face and she rested her lips for a moment on his forehead, before turning from him.  Her fingers grazed down his body and she smiled a little when the met the stiffening of his meat… she paused for a moment and her nails dug deeply into his cock.  A part of her had a deep urge to take him… to feel the heat of his body wash through her as she delivered him herself to the darkness… but… she had made a promise… she gave him one last tight squeeze before releasing him and heading towards the door at the furthest end of the room..<br/><br/>Once she had entered the room she closed the door behind her and stepping onto the cool tiles of the shower room…Shadow stripped and tossed her clothing into a bin liner, taking time to seal it… she had gotten carried away again, she knew that in her own mind, but she had been so weak to resist.<br/><br/>She stepped through into the shower and flicked the switch, at once her body was bathed in the fine heated spray that pummelled and massaged her.  She tousled her fingers through her hair and tipped her head back… opening her mouth and allowing the clear water to flood it… it spilled from her tainted a deep red and ran down her chin, flowing along her neck and running around the gentle swell of her breasts.  She worked her hands across her naked flesh, feeling her soft heat against her touch as she cleaned her body of the tell-tale wash of blood… the water ran crimson around her and siphoned away through the filter in the shower floor.  It seemed like an age in which she stood beneath its gentle caress… it was as though the act of shower afterwards allowed her mind to balance itself once again….<br/><br/>She spent a little while cleaning the shower down before she stepped out from it and gently towelled herself dry, before slipping on a black silk robe and wrapping the tie around her waist… she slipped from the shower room and back into the chamber… she glanced across to him as he lay strapped tightly to the table… his body swathed in blood and shivered with pain as she smiled, her body now cleansed and the fire that burned inside purified by her actions… she bought her fingers to her lips and blew him a soft kiss as she made her way upstairs leaving him alone with his thoughts and fears…<br/><br/>She took a deep breath as she reached the top of the stairs and chased away the last of the fever that had threaded through her… she depressed the catch and the door opened into the hallway…<br/>