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Date Posted: 06:00:07 02/12/02 Tue
Author: Jade
Subject: Damn it's cold in here.
In reply to: Erlic, Corum & Valhorek 's message, "Venturing onward" on 20:45:35 02/11/02 Mon

Jade lay on the hard stone slab these people called a bed. She sighed, rubbing at her bare head. They had shaved her hair off -- all of her hair -- and left her naked in the cell. Periodically someone came with a bowl of some kind of rice she was supposed to eat, but there was very little of it and she was always still hungry.

She knew what they were trying to do, of course. The rice was only part of their methods. The rest included beatings, verbal abuse, and cajoling to try to get her to convert to their wierd religion. She didn't want any part of their silly cult, but she was thinking about saying she'd seen the light just to get them to stop slapping her around.

She shifted uncomfortably on the slab, the chain attached to the magic-suppressing shackle on her ankle clanking as she moved. Her hip bones were more pronounced than they had been and they poked painfully against the stone. To make matters worse, the slab was cold against her naked flesh. She looked down at her shaved pubic area, wondering if the little toad who had performed that part of the ritual had secretly been enjoying himself.

Suddenly she heard a noise in the hallway outside her cell and she sat up, curious. Two Sharm walked in carrying an unconscious boy between them. They opened the empty cell across from hers and tossed the kid none too gently onto the cell floor. She winced as she heard his head hit the stone floor with a crack. "That had to hurt," she commented dryly.

She hadn't realized she'd spoken aloud until one of the Sharm turned to her and snapped, "Keep your eyes to yourself, woman, or we may remove them for you!" She noted with a sort of sick amusement that the man's eyes roamed over her naked body.

"Give me a blanket and I'll shut up!" she tossed back, knowing full well they would do no such thing. They wanted to make sure she was kept in the most humiliating and unpleasant conditions they could manage. Even the privy was a small, smelly tin bowl over in the corner of her cell.

The Sharm made a disgusted noise as the other one slammed the newcomer's cell door shut. "We will perform the ritual tomorrow, Asir," the one said as they left the cell block. She could hear their voices as they receded. "There are intruders in the city and we must be on the alert."

Intruders! Well, then, perhaps she would soon be rescued. She grinned, thinking that if they came for their friend (she assumed that was where the new fellow was from -- it would be too great a coincidence otherwise) then she would convince them to free her, too.

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