Chapter 2.0

"What is going on?!" Morgana said shakily as a burly man stepped towards her with a pair of handcuffs. She didn't dare move because she was afraid that they would shoot her or her mother. The man clicked the cuffs on, then covered her mouth with a piece of strong duct tape. He brought her to sit in front of her mother with a gun was held to her head, and the man who seemed to be in command began asking her questions.

"Where is Arthur's crown?" he demanded.

She shook her head, biting her lip as tears ran down her face. "I already told you, it's a myth! Pure fiction! If the crown of Arthur Pendragon actually existed, it would be sitting in a museum somewhere! I swear, I don't know anything about it, so please, let my daughter go!"

The man turned away from her and looked at his men. "We need to move to a more comfortable location."

The men nodded and several of them spread out to check outside, leaving only the leader and another man to guard Morgana and her mother.

While they were gone, Nancy begged them to believe her, swearing that she knew nothing.

The men returned with a strange looking apparatus. They shoved Nancy and Morgana into the kitchen, then set up the machine in the middle of the kitchen. They put a large crystal ball into it and the device came to life, spinning and creating a strange sphere of emptiness that grew steadily.

While the others handled the strange device and its weird creation, the leader pulled a flat oval stone and touched it to Nancy's head. There was a loud, electrical crackle and she yelped in pain.

Morgana resisted a little as he approached her next, but a pistol jab to the ribs made her go still. As the stone touched her forehead, excruciating pain flashed through her body and her mind went dark.

Morgana woke up to the sound of loud voices. It was dark, and she realized that her head was covered by some kind of cloth. She could hear her mother crying in a hoarse voice, repeating the same thing over and over.

"I don't know anything!"

There was a loud slap, and a female voice snapped, "Shut up. We didn't just decide on you randomly. We know about your little trip to Rome six years ago. We know about your work in the UK. If there is anyone who knows more about Arthurian History than you, I don't know who they are. So, you can make a deal and tell us where the crown is, or we will have to use 'other' methods."

There was a metalic hiss and Nancy gasped.

"Please don't. I promise I will tell you everything I know."

The clatter of a metal object being put down was jarring. "You had better be careful about what you say. Your daughter's life depends on it."

From that point on, Morgana's world became hell. The pain, fear and dispair became a chain that dragged her into an endless void until she began questioning her own existence. All she could do was pray for it to end.

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