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hadn’t. So the Elementals really were torturing their friends willingly. Would they ever forgive the Elementals once they found out the truth?
    After a few minutes, they took Moira away and continued down the line. Melissa repeatedly poisoned Joss causing her to collapse. She narrowed her beautiful violet eyes at Melissa, and then everyone else.
    “I can’t believe you!” Joss yelled. Her eyes rolled to the back of her head and sweat ambled down her face. She heaved and swallowed, but then heaved again and threw up forcing the crowd around the railing to groan in disgust.
    Several of them looked away, completely grossed out.
    “Ugh, what did you do?” Anais asked.
    Melissa lifted a shoulder. “Atropine poisoning.”
    Donovan dropped his jaw. “You can do that?”
    “Yeah.”
    He tried hard not to appear impressed, but Ava saw it in his eyes.
    “What is that?” Gillian asked.
    “Makes you hallucinate and temporarily lose memory. It comes from the belladonna plant.”
    “Where am I?” Joss frantically scanned the group. She had no idea where she was or who anyone was. Ava glanced at Eric, but like a rock, he showed no emotion.
    “Someone clean this up and take her back,” Xavier said.
    One of the Cimmerians carried Joss away and one cleaned up the mess.
    “Let’s continue.” Xavier crossed his arms, impatiently waiting.
    Gillian moved to the front as Natalia was pushed toward her. She manipulated Natalia to stab herself over and over with a knife. Blood spurted out all over the floor from the several gashes that tore her stomach open. Then Jeremy’s intense wind ripped Zhan’s skin leaving it hanging in sheets. And Lance absorbed Konstantin’s ability and telekinetically raised his body in the air and dropped him with a sickening thud. His leg cracked, but he never made a sound. Ava remembered when Havok did that to her in a dream. The intense pain had consumed her as her leg broke. She couldn’t think of anything else but the throbbing agony. She wasn’t sure how Konstantin remained silent.
    Katarina poisoned Aaron with her radiation disfiguring his face. His skin boiled and bled through. Ava could barely watch. The skin around his eyes had peeled away. His hair had fallen off and blood seeped through his flesh. Ava saw one of the girls look away and try not to vomit.
    They wanted to see what the Elementals could do. Ava knew each one of the Elementals had pulled out all of the stops, but how would they feel later? She wasn’t sure she wanted to feel her emotions after what she had done. How would they get through this? Would they live like emotionless creatures for the rest of their lives? She didn’t know how she or the others could keep torturing their friends and loved ones.
    Gustav was next, and Ava knew Anais would be his punisher. Anais looked at him like he was a disgusting roach. She crossed her arms and smirked. Had she known that he was her father? She shook her head. “An Elder. You don’t look so powerful.”
    Gustav took his punishment without a word or movement. None of the prisoners fought back. Why didn’t they? Were they trying to prove something? They didn’t know that Ava and the others’ minds were supposedly erased. Were the prisoners testing Ava and the rest?
    The second round of torture began as Peter, Link, Nicole, Donovan, Eve, Eric, and Kira tormented the prisoners again. Ava didn’t want to think about what they had to hold onto in order to survive. She knew they were all incredibly strong, but she didn’t know how they were able to take it all without a fight.
    A few hours had passed, and Xavier called an end. The bloody, anguished prisoners were returned to their cells. Ava wondered how they would be healed. They had to; otherwise, they would die in the middle of the night from blood loss. But no one asked Ava to heal them. Maybe they had healing potions like Savina had. How else could they heal themselves all these years without Savina’s help? Ava held onto that