Content warnings: graphic descriptions of violence, implied/referenced child abuse, non-consensual body modification, language, use if in-universe slurs, some blood and gore The boy’s begging for mercy draws nothing but apathy from the gathered crowd and their raised phones, recording every second of his public disfigurement.  Isabella watches, something like panic settling and squeezing in fettered bursts inside her stomach. The urge to run consumes her, but she stays wh