A Test

                                    

                                          



(One Month Later)




"Lura." Leah said, looking at me as I sat in her chair, we just went through an hour of mantras. "Today is a big day, I've been waiting to give you this test until now, and if you pass, my training will be a lot easier on you from now on."
This was the test that Lord Wykes talked about when I saw him a month ago, I was wondering when I was going to have to go through it. I'm a little nervous, this could be a harsh test, but then again, there isn't anything I wouldn't do to be a good slave. 
I've been training for two months here, and it's gotten a lot better, Leah has not been so hard on me. She's been mean, but she hasn't been punishing me for no reason like before, I think she sensed how much I changed.
"If you fail this test, I'm going to go back to my old methods." Leah told me. "It'll be bad, and I'll will breaking you even more. You won't even recognize yourself, not that you can now in your current state. You are completely different than the first day I had you, but then again, you could simply be lying to me."
"Are you lying, Lura? Are you pretending to be an obedient slave?"
"No, ma'am."
"Good, well, we are about to find out if that is true or not." Leah said, placing a bag on the ground, a bag she never usually brought in here with us. "I really hope you do pass, I don't want to see you cry so much again."
"But you probably will, no one passes on their first try." She reached into the bag and pulled out a small dagger, she could have asked me for a dagger, I had one in my mana ring. "I had to train a male elf about a year ago, he was broken quickly, but it wasn't enough, there were still some things he wouldn't do if asked, that hesitancy was still in him."
"He failed, and I had to break him even more, so much more so that he never hesitated." I was now a little nervous about this test, she said no one passes, but I'll do whatever it takes, I don't want to be punished. "It only took a week before he was on the ground, listening to any order I gave without question, begging me not to hurt him anymore."
"It was after two months that he gave up and never hesitated again, and when that happened, I was pleased." I could feel my heart beating now, a lot faster than it usually did when I was nervous. "I think with you, when you fail, because I know you will, it'll take one month until you get to that point."
"To the point of utter lowness, you won't even remember who you were before you were a slave, you will only know this life. I will erase it all out of your mind, I will make it so when your mind goes back to that time, you think of being hurt, and in time, it'll be like it never did happen."
"Firstly, I need you to get on your knees, Lura." I did as she said and got down on my knees in front of her, she reached into the bag again and pulled out a blindfold and tossed it to me. "Put this on."
I did as she said, placing the blindfold on my face, tying it in the back, confused on why I needed to do this for her. I couldn't see anything, my vision was now under her control now as well, just like my life, then again, my vision did belong to her already.
"It's time to see if you have what it's worth to be a Wykes's slave." I heard her step forward, and as she did, my heart raced faster and faster, afraid of what was going to happen to me. "Put your hand out."
I placed my hand out and waited for the next order, that's when she went silent, she just stared down at me, or around the room, I didn't know, I couldn't see. It scared me for a second, but that's when she started to speak again.
"I'm going to place something in your hand, I want you to just hold it out, feel the weight of it." Leah placed something in my hand, it was a handle, it was solid. "Feel how hard it is, how it's cold in your hand."