Rise of a Matriarch- Chapter 6 Rituals and Revelations

Morning came and with it the need to rise and be about the day’s business. There were things that had to be done, unpleasant things and difficult things first the unpleasant task. With determination in her stride Iliafray walked towards Sophia’s quarters on reaching the door she dismissed the wards sealing the door and opened it stepping into the room.

Sophia was lying on the bed trying hard to read a book to keep her from worrying about the screams she had heard and the absence of her mistress since then, on hearing the door open despite her own earlier attempts to open it she looked up and saw Iliafray standing in the doorway “My Lady , I was worried are your alright?” Iliafray did not reply instead gesturing and speaking the words of a spell , and Sophia felt her body seized the the same magical forces as before rendering her helpless and unable to speak, she felt her body being lifted up and carried into Iliafray’s workroom and despite her concern about what was happening was shocked by the damage with broken magical trinkets everywhere and the smell of blood which could be seen drying on the table. The Unseen servants placed Sophia on the table and then Iliafray fastened her bracelets and anklets to the table fixing her in a spread eagled position finally before the spell wore off Iliafray opened Sophia’s mouth and forced a ring gag into her mouth leaving it held open but unable to speak. Lying on the table Sophia found it hard to see what Iliafray was doing she moved around the room gathering a few items from the shelves or where they had fallen on the floor , through the gag she tried to get Iliafray’s attention to ask what was going on, she was begginning to feel fear perhaps yesterday’s events had driven Iliafray mad, or perhaps she had always been wrong and Iliafray was like all the other drow and had no concern for her slave at all. The fear grew as ilafray gathered the last item from the floor a silver bladed athame .

For her part Iliafray forced herself to ignore Sophia knowing that paying attention to her or trying to explain things would just make this more unpleasant to do. Finally she had the few items she needed and walked back over to the table. First she took two verdigrised Silver circlets placed one on her own head and the second on Sophia’s, next taking a deep breath before hand she took the athame and began to make a series of shallow cuts in Sophia’s skin around her breasts and cunt with further runes over her heart and on her forehead. Sophia cried out this was the worst she had suffered since being bought by Iliafray and the first time Iliafray had ever deliberately drawn blood and certainly the first time she had prepared Sophia for some magical ritual or sacrifice.