Sansa's POV
I thought when Koa made them bring me back to the palace, it was just so I couldn't stay there anymore. But the way I was being dragged through the corridors made it feel like something else entirely was going on.
"Where are you taking me?" I asked, my heartbeat picking up. "I haven't done anything wrong. I promise."
"Shut your mouth," one of the guards ordered, his grip tightening as they pulled me along.
Panic crept in fast, wrapping around my chest until it was beginning to feel difficult to breathe.
They dragged me into the same room I had been flogged in on the very first day of being trapped in the palace and shoved me to the ground.
But fear had overwhelmed it. It felt like the memory of each whip that had struck me resurfaced in my head, making me instinctively push myself up immediately, even though my knee scraped painfully against the floor and my knuckles stung.
I was too scared to even feel the pain.
