DONE!!!

So I pulled it out this weekend. I managed to finish torn. It topped out at 62 chapters. so that means slightly more than twenty posts till you all get the end.

In other news I got a new bird this weekend. It is another cockatiel and it's name it Tigger. It is too young to know if it is a boy or girl yet, but I think it's another boy bird.

I'll try to get a good pic of Tigger up soon.

Here is chapter 40. And you can start counting the days to the end.

Torn
40

Night had fallen and Jack was thoroughly enjoying himself.

The elf had woken, and Jack was ready to play.

He had decided to start soft. Since he had been asleep the elf hadn’t eaten in days. Jack had tied up the elf, and ate a huge meal while the elf could do nothing but look on. He then gave the elf the food that had spoiled, and when the elf tried not to eat it he forced it upon him.

He normally wouldn’t have fed his toys even that much, but he figured that the elf would need some food in order to survive what Jack was planning next.

Jack had a hard time restraining his laughter.

***

Malchevio approached the cave cautiously. He hadn’t approached since his last talk with Jack, and was worried about Jack’s mood.

He heard laughter coming from the cave, and then a groan followed.

He turned around. What he had to say to Jack could wait. He didn’t want to know the fun Jack was having.

***

The elf was obviously weak, but as soon as he saw Jack approaching with spiders his struggling against the bonds increased.

“Don’t bother,” Jack said with a smile. “Even if you do manage to break those bonds you will never get out of the cave.”

The elf pretended not to hear, he just continued struggling.

Jack laughed. The elf stopped struggling long enough to glare at him, but then the elf’s eyes grew round with fear. Jack wondered what caused the look, and then he saw one of his spiders rounding the top of his shoulder. Up to that point Jack had been standing with his hands behind his back, but with the game revealed he brought them forward to show the elf the spiders crawling all up and down Jacks arms.

The elf screamed.

Jacks’ smile grew.

The elf’s struggles grew frantic, but he only succeeded in knocking over the chair.

Jack took his time in walking over to the elf. He was enjoying the show. The spiders were under his control, so he was only slightly tickled as they moved about. They dare not bite him, no matter how much they wanted to.

Jack reached to elf, and just stood over him for a moment. He allowed one of the spiders to slowly approach the elf. The elf started screaming as the single spider approached. It dropped onto his chest, and Jack could taste the terror.

He kneeled next to the elf. The first spider was merely running around on his chest, it hadn’t even been allowed to bite yet.

Jack thought that the elf’s eyes would pop out of his face, they were so wide. The elf couldn’t tear his eyes from the mass of spiders crawling over Jack.

Jack allowed the terror to grow until the elf started to think that Jack wouldn’t put the rest of the spiders on him. He even called the one spider back to him.

The elf started to relax.

Jack grabbed the elf’s head, and with a single thought allowed the spiders to swarm over his face. Angry and hungry the spiders bit into whatever flesh they could find, hoping to find something that could be considered food.

Once all of the spiders had moved onto the elf Jack retrieved his hands.

He was glad to get a little distance between himself and the elf. The screams had been painful in such close proximity.

Jack sat in a chair, and closed his eyes.

The screams sounded sweet. It had been too long since he had last played like this. The terror was so thick it could almost be cut with a knife.

Jack relished in the screams of the elf until they faded away.

He walked over to examine his victim. As he thought the elf had passed out from fear and exhaustion.

The spiders were loosing interest in the elf and were starting to scatter. Jack gathered them back up; he wasn’t done with them yet.