Chapter 6.

Disturbing revelations.

Dandara tried to remain calm as the man in the golden mask slowly approached her. His eyes locked with hers, and the atmosphere grew more oppressive with each step he took. The tension in the air was palpable, and the idea of ​​this all being an act was beginning to fade from her mind.

You are the woman in the painting... the man repeated, his voice echoing in the room like an eerie echo. Dandara couldn't understand what he meant, but the seriousness in his tone made her think this was much more real than she had imagined.

¿What do you mean? Dandara asked, trying to unravel the enigma. ¿What painting? ¿Why am I here?

The man in the golden mask didn't answer immediately. Instead, he turned to one of the walls of the room and pulled back a velvet curtain, revealing a huge painting hanging on the wall. The image showed a woman with an uncanny resemblance to Dandara, surrounded by a landscape that seemed straight out of a fairy tale.

The young woman fell down upon seeing the uncanny resemblance and said to him: This is not real. I am not her or she is not me, but in no way are we the same person. In fact, I am giving up on this work and this filming. I do not want to continue filming.

The man in the golden mask did not understand the madness he was saying, but before he could move anywhere else, he let go of his dragon's tail, which coiled around the rest of the woman's body with force, drawing her towards him. 

He grabbed her face and, squeezing it, said: ¿What do I have to do with you? I do not understand what you are saying. You are a slave and that is the general context. But I do understand that giving up is similar to running away, and you belong to me.

The way he held her was making her skin turn red and her features harden in a grimace of pain. It was then that she realized that this was not a film shoot, much less a play. This was the real world. If the pain was this bad and there were no cameras anywhere, maybe she should start believing that this was truly not a fantasy. She tried to struggle in his tight grip, but it didn't go her way, which led to him intensifying it further and her screaming.

In a moment of desperation, she bit his shoulder with all the strength she could muster. But to him, this didn't feel like it at all. In fact, with one of his hands he pulled her away from his shoulder and opened her mouth to test if she really had teeth or was just air, because even the children who lived there had more strength in their mouths than she did.

This ended with the abruptness of his movements, which resulted in him pulling out a tooth on the upper right side, which not only caused the blood to bleed, but also made the girl cry as if she were a newborn.