14 – The devil

Kadin carefully enters the dark entrance. A shadow grabs her arm and with her wrist bends her arm and pins it unnaturally and painfully behind her back. "Ouch! You are hurting me!” The figure is a sturdy man and he now drives her brutally deeper into the room. They end in the sitting room where he shoves her violently and she sinks away on a soft couch. Three figures are now standing in front of her. The wizard is in front with the two accomplices like bodyguards on either side of him a little back. She feels vulnerable and asks in a small voice: "Where is Billy?” The wizard answers in his strange English accent with an unearthly, coarse, hoarse voice: "In the slaughterhouse.” An invisible hand of fear touches her heart and lameness engulfs her there where she is seated on the couch: "Slaughterhouse? What do you mean? What have you done to Billy?” "Are you also going to lie to us and do you want to be hung up there and be slaughtered?” Kadin jumps up and angrily and without fear s