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Act II: Scene 15: Stockades

The men hauled Miura and Sabrina through the snow, their movements rough and unrelenting. From their ship, they retrieved heavy wooden stockades, the kind used for public humiliation. The blizzard howled around them, the cold biting into every exposed patch of skin. Miura’s magic had created the storm in her desperation to fight Robert, but now it raged out of control, an untamable force that neither she nor anyone else there could stop.

Robert directed his men with a calm authority, his fury now replaced with cold efficiency. “Set them up there,” he ordered, pointing to an exposed ridge where the wind screamed the loudest. “Let them face the storm they conjured.”

The stockades were driven into the frozen ground, the wood creaking under the weight of the ice forming on its surface. Miura was forced into one, her broken arms barely able to move as the rough wood bit into her skin. Sabrina was shoved into the other, her face pale and bloodied, her jaw hanging unnaturally.

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Robert stood before them, his aquamarine eyes gleaming with satisfaction. “Poetic, isn’t it?” he said, his voice carrying over the wind. “The storm you summoned to fight me will be the same storm that ends you.”

Miura lifted her head weakly, her dark eyes burning with defiance despite her injuries. “You’ll die here too, Robert,” she said, her voice barely audible. “This storm will take you.”

Robert chuckled, stepping closer. “No, Miura. I command the sea. I’ll survive. But you…” He trailed off, gesturing to the raging blizzard around them. “You’ll freeze, and your precious storm will bury you in the snow.”

He turned to his men. “We’re done here. Leave them.”

The soldiers obeyed, their laughter echoing as they retreated toward the ship. Robert paused for a moment, gazing at his sister’s limp form in the stockade. “Goodbye, Sabrina,” he said coldly. “You should have stayed in England.”

With that, he turned and walked away, leaving Miura and Sabrina alone in the howling blizzard. The storm raged on, its fury indifferent to their suffering, as snow and ice began to bury their trembling bodies.