Bad Ending
This was written back in February of 2021. It's a bad ending of the events of Galena's kidnapping. It was based off of a writing prompt I found somewhere if I remember right. This is not canon!! I ended up killing her in a much more painful way :)
Screams echoed off the walls as the blade slashed through Galena’s arm once more. She felt the sharp sting, feeling the blood rush down her arm, coating any spot missed before, and dripping onto the stone floor below her. Her breath was labored, the pit of nausea growing stronger as her eyesight started to fade even more.
This torture had been going on for days now, but something about her snarky comeback set Zalveth off and she was sure her time had come. She wasn’t sure if this was good or not, if this was the outcome she desired after being trapped in here for weeks on end, barely living. Maybe somewhere in the back of her mind she wanted to die, for the fear and pain to leave her, just one moment where she could be vulnerable.
A harsh kick to the rips knocks her onto her side, clutching the spot weakly. She was sure a good portion of her bones were broken by now, but she could care less. She closes her eyes, groaning at the pounding in her head, the adrenaline from earlier was long gone and all she wants to do is give in to the distant calls of death. She feels a wet shoe press against her left cheek, forcing her head to look over.
“Look at me.”
The voice sounded so distant, but she obeyed just this once. There he stood, her murderer, the one who had kept her down here for so long, had her on edge every day for the past century, the one who took her mom away from her before she even had her. She mustered up a smile, flashing her broken, bloody teeth at the high elf above her. He squatted down, wiping the blade across the only piece of clean clothing left on her body, then left the room, leaving her to die.
Closing her eyes, she listened. There were distant sounds of fighting, shouting, the screams of her friends, her found family. As she finally slipped into the darkness of death, she let out her last breath as a laugh.
In the end she was happy. Not just any happy, however. She was happy she was laying there, bleeding out and dying, able to close her eyes forever. She was dead, but she died with the reassurance that the ones she loved were okay.