Fuck these guards! Working for the Caastigen Scouts, I’ve seen some pieces of shit. But even the most sadistic mercenaries that have been hired by the Sindaran Army, are less brutal and cruel than these guards. They nearly killed Uther dragging us down here. Even now he comes in and out of consciousness. At least the blood has stopped seeping out, but his fur is mostly just matted blood at this point. heh, I guess I am not much better off though. When we came to the first gate, the one of the officers clubbed me in the face with a mace, before he even unlocked the door. By the time I came to, my face was stuck to a rock covered in dried blood, my gear was gone, and I was chained by the foot to the rock wall in the cavern. Uther was near enough I could see him…not that I am even sure he knows I am here. I am almost certain they locked me in the same chains that Atharia was in when we came to get her released, and I can only assume its intentional.
I can see one of the obsidian-like obelisks in the torchlight. A few cycles of sleep after I came to, I noticed that the obelisk emitted a soft light, almost indistinguishable in the near torch light. Some time later, as I was staring off into the dark, I saw the soft glow drain quickly out of it. Afterwards, it almost pulled the light out of the room, and even with my dark-vision, everything seemed darker. With my newly acquired aptitude for casting some lower level arcane spells, I could feel an immediate pull of any magical strength I had left. Not like what spells I had memorized would help me in this situation anyway.
The guards take turns patrolling around the obelisk, as it is in the center of the chamber. I still cant tell if the are guarding it, or just keeping an eye on the creatures chained up in here. When they get bored a pair of them will disappear into one of the corners of the cavern, and I can hear them beating on some poor creature. So far they have ignored the unconscious Uther, and have only made sport of me twice. I must not have cried out in pain like they wanted, and they have pretty much left me alone for a while. Time is impossible to judge in here; most humans all look the same to me, so judging how many guard shifts have changed is difficult to count with a foggy mind. Not like I would even know how long their shifts were anyway.
They have brought food twice, but the empty pit in my stomach tells me that I’ve been down here for a good several days. I have resorted to licking the moisture off of the rock walls, since I haven’t seen them bring water to anyone but themselves, and I don’t hold much hope they will be sharing anytime soon, at least this cave has a constant slick of moisture. I’ve tried eave’s dropping in on the guard’s conversations, hoping to catch word of what might be going on outside. But all I ever hear them talk about is some poor girl one of them raped, or how they lost a game of troll’s knuckles and got their money back by killing the guy in an alley.
I figure with Benefisto’s reaction to when we all were here last, I half expect him to come charging in at any time to free the creatures here. They aren’t that stupid though. Hopefully they got Atharia out of the city safely, and they wont try anything too stupid. I know I wasn’t upfront with the group when we all first met, so I cant help fearing I lost their trust. Even if I haven’t though, and they are out in the city trying to prove my innocence, facing a trial to prove my innocence against Lord Nagakuta…it wont be a fair trial by any stretch of the imagination. I have made peace that this prison is the last place I will see. I just wish I could have kept Uther from this fate, and told Lilly goodbye…
Wait…what’s going on? All the guards just drew their weapons, ran to the shack near the entrance, and are talking in hushed voices…and what is that noise? Is that…a…bell?