Tristan POV

"How long have I been here. I don't know if it's days, weeks or months. My sense of time is totally messed up. Ever since the day I was knocked out and caught by the first prince I've become a lab rat of sorts and have gone through so much experimentation which only consists of me getting stabbed with a knife in different places all the time then waiting to heal and then stabbed again."

"And when it became apparent that I wasn't going to die from blood loss, the stabs increased to cuts, slashes, slitting of veins and arteries, direct organ puncturing to even amputation of limbs and the most painful thing to happen to a man, cutting off his D###"

"Somehow through it all I survived and am still in one piece and the extreme perception and photographic memory did not help matters if you can sense every cut on your body and it keeps on flashing in your mind because of a photographic memory."

" While I have discovered a lot of things about my body that I didn't know before, being tortured does not allow me to be happy about my discoveries. I've discovered many strange things about my body that makes me wonder if I am even human when I finally remembered that I have a draconic-phoenix body and even though it is humanoid it isn't human."

"For starters I have two types of blood, one is the normal blood that flows through my body that grants people minor healing abilities depending on the amount ingested, I call it Phoenix blood, and there is another blood type that is only present in my heart in very little quantity, it is golden red in colour and it glows like a burning flame."

"If you're wondering how I know all that then let me tell you that having someone cut your chest open, move your bones to get to your heart punctures it and starts squeezing the blood out is not a very interesting thing to go through. The feeling of your heart in someone's hand feels bad and would feel a lot worse if not for the fact that I can't die to something like that."

"The only good thing I'm happy about even in all of this is that I'm the only one like this and I'm the only one that has to go through all this experimentation. I can't imagine someone else going through all this and thank the gods that mother and Elena are not like me and won't be experimented upon."

"Hmmm it's been a while since anybody has come in here or not, I'm not sure" I say out loud as I pull on the ropes binding me to the board and to my surprise the one on my right hand is a bit loose. I pull on it and after a while it loosened up a lot more.

Unlawfully taken from Royal Road, this story should be reported if seen on Amazon.

After some more time I managed to pull it completely loose and with my now free right hand I start to untie my self starting from my left hand and then I untied my feet and drop to the floor making a muffled noise before falling to the floor as I try to take a step forward. My muscles are completely stiff, I guess this is what happens if you remain stationary for too long.

I slowly massaged my legs until I regain feeling in them before standing up again and stealthily move towards the door expecting to have to fight a bit to regain my freedom. As I reach the door I stealthily open it and peek out but once again to my surprise it was completely empty without any guards, not that I'm complaining though at least this way I have enough time to plan my moves.

Though it is quite strange that there aren't any guards to watch over my prison and not to be narcissistic but I'm pretty valuable to my captors from the things that can be gained from my body. Maybe I was being kept as a major secret. But moving past that, now that I've escaped I think I will have to leave this kingdom.

I don't know how the first prince will react so it's best if I stealthily leave and it's best if I can convince mother and Elena to come with me before the kingdom goes to hell over the battle for the throne.

I finally make it out of the secret passage while still surprisingly not meeting even a single guard all the way. I leave the building through a window from the back instead of passing the front door to escape.

After getting outside I ran away from the building as fast and as stealthily as I could. Once I was away from the building I started moving through dark areas back towards my house since it was dark outside. I see a night guard patrolling alone and stalk him before knocking him out and dragging him out of sight.

Then I changed from the rags I was wearing to the night guard's outfit while tying him up with what was left of my former ra… ahem clothing. After changing into the night guard's outfit I stealthily made my way back home and entered the house still stealthily through the windows at the back of the house.

After entering I made my way to mother's room and woke her up. She seemed shocked to see me here at this time of night and me knowing I did not have time to explain much gave her a basic rundown of what had happened to me and my plans to fly the coop, then I told her to meet me together with Elena at the flower hill we always visited and bring nothing but as much money as she could and a change of clothes for all of us.

I then left as stealthily as I came to avoid suspicion or any sort of problems by being there if they were to be searched for any reason. I soon found somewhere to pass the night because coming tomorrow I should be free from all this troubles.

"Maybe I should live like a hermit from now on, disattached from the world or…, well tomorrow would take care of itself."