C114 The Whirlwind

Bellatrix barely glanced at her, her face set in cold lack of interest. "I’m showing them the way out of their misery," she replied as if the lives around them were priceless, mere obstacles in her grander plan. The words chilled Marina, but Bellatrix spoke them with the calm of someone utterly detached from the suffering she would cause.

Marina came to a sudden halt