[castle darkness; charlie]

[signed_sabrina]

What had been difficult to pull off to help Rosie-- playing the imperious, bratty possible bride-to-be, bored and not at all willing to commit to the Lord of Darkness just yet-- seems an even taller order when it comes to getting Charlie brought to her without arousing suspicion.

It means letting them take Rosie back, for one. Sabrina makes threat upon threat, compliments the goblin that seems to have had the idea to bring Rosie at all, tries to give him a sense of responsibility in this.

It also means setting aside her actual feelings so that she can tell the goblins that her appetite is whetted and that her pretty songbird had sung to her of a most lovely boy in the dungeon. She tells them that she wants him, that she wants to play. She says, the words sour in her mouth, that perhaps she's getting used to this life.

So they go, and Sabrina sits on her massive bed, waiting with her heart in her throat.

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[teenagerenegade]

Before they bring him, they strip him and they scrub him and they put him in changes. He shuffles into the room with his head bowed, stripped to his underwear, bruises spangling his spine and ribs.

"Here he is," hisses one of the goblins that's holding his arm. "Toy for you, Majesty."