Hostage

[sweetmint]

[[Takes place during, and continued from: Lost and Alone.]]



"What are you going to do to me?" He asked.

Cadwen's smile vanished, and she shook him once, hard.
"I shall kill ye and eat ye... eventually. For now, ye will be staying in a new room, where nobeast may find ye. Nobeast, save Lady Vihata!"

She dragged him into the dungeons, her voice echoing eerily in the dimly lit area. She paused for a moment, deciding on which cell to put him in. One in the far back, down a short flight of steps would be best; nobeast would look there, and it was far enough that he wouldn't likely be heard if he cried out for help.

It was a long walk, though. With an irritated sigh, Cadwen commenced focing him to walk again.

"Do not try to call for help; nobeast can here ye scream down here," she informed him morbidly, sinking her claws into his arm deeper.

[Malum]

Squidge flinched, wishing dearly that Amor was an only child. As he walked into the dungeons, he tried not to worry.

Amor will save me! Yeah! And then she'll have to believe me about Vihata... He thought, sighing.

[sweetmint]

Upon arriving at a suitable cell -- as dank, dark, and horrible as the rest of them -- Cadwen shoved Squidge in forcefully, and closed the rusty iron door with a loud, screeching crash that echoed up and down the dungeons.

Here, she met a problem; none of the cells in this area could be locked. Cursing the fact that she had to leave him alive, the thick-furred hare shot the fox a baleful glare, then commenced traipsing back to the dungeon entrance to where she knew large, metal padlocks were kept. She could only presume Squidge's fear of her would keep him from trying to break out.

She found the small guardhouse and began riffling through it, unable to find what she was looking for. Oh, if Vihata could see her now... Blast! Nothing there. She'd have to settle for something else. Ears twitching, irritated, she backed out of the guardhouse and started to yank on a lock from a different cell.


[[lol "only child!" xD Is this thread finished?]]

[Malum]

OOC: Cadwen might have to keep an eye on Squidge and Torture him, but not kill him!

Squidge watched as she left. He gulped, and walked towards the door.

"Unlocked? So I can escape? But there's only one way out, and Cadwen went that way... But I have to warn Amor...." He thought, pondering. "The doors creak, so she would hear me.... Maybe she's coming back right now..."

Squidge sighed in resignation and sat down on the cold, dark floor. Suddenly, he felt something touch his hand, and he gasped, backing up. There was a skeleton in his cell!

"Great..." He said.

With a sigh, he opened his cell door, and walked out, silently making his way for the door. He grabbed a peoce of paper and pen from the drawer by the door and wrote.

"Amor,
I am locked in a cell by you Dear sister Vihata, please bring soldiers, and come to the dungeons if you don't believe me. I hope you believe me...and come... If the envelope is open, then the rat opened it. Oh, and if Vihata is reading this... Amor is better than you ..
Squidge..." He wrote.

Walking out into the hallway, he handed a rat the note.

"Get this to Amor, and don't read it. If she dosen't get it and you read it, you'll be executed!" Squidge said, glaring at the rat. The rat saluted, and ran up to find Amor.

Squidge sighed, and ran back into his cell. He shut the door, and layed down on the cold, damp floor.

[sweetmint]

[[lol Squidge got past Cadwen twice. :9 There's no way I could type out torture. =/ Perhaps some timely intervention is in order...? ]]

Cursing, Cadwen gave up on trying to yank down a different lock, and grabbed a thick leather whip instead. Dragging it, she strode back down to the cell Squidge was in.

She meant to use the whip to tie the cell shut with -- well out of his reach, of course -- but seeing the fox sitting on the floor, Cadwen found herself realizing that she could do whatever she wanted to him, provided he survived. She raised her eyebrows at him.

"Well, I certainly have a nice, plump morsel here, don't I. Shame that won't be true once Lady Vihata has finished with ye; I like my meat thick and juicy." She tapped the end of the whip against the cell bars, baring her teeth in a smile.

[Malum]

OOC: Like Vihata coming down there?

Squidge gulped, and backed up against the wall.

"Hey, you were told not to kill me! If Amor finds out that you killed me, she'll be REALLY angry!" He said.

[sweetmint]

[[Sure. Something. Anything. *coward*]]


Cadwen leered, leaning up against the bars.
"Ye know not what I have been told, fox," she informed him coldly, still ruffled that she couldn't just do away with him. Vihata needed him alive if she were to get to her sister eventually.

Eventually. Cadwen hoped it would be soon.

"But do not worry; I shall not kill ye." The whip made a dull, leathery thumping sound as she brought it gently against the bars, tap... tap... tap...

"Ye may beg me for death, but no fear, no fear... ye will not be slain this day." Her expression became dangerous, almost hidden in the low light of the dungeons but for the light fur around her face.

[Malum]

Sudenly, the dungeon doors slammed shut, and Vihata cam strutting down the hallway, carrying her sword. She stopped in front of Cadwen and looked at the whip.

"Ah, I see you're kinda busy, but you can quit what you were going to do. We need to get going on killing Amor." She said.

Squidge growled, and ran towards her, reaching for her throat.

"DON'T YOU TOUCH AMOR!" He growled, glaring Vihata down.

[Lisolette]

(ooc: Can I come in now? ;D )

BIC: Hemlock followed Vihata, a large smile on her face. She snickered at Squidge, "Heh heh heh! Poor lil' foxdog got no wherez tah' go! 'Is precious lil' Amor ish facin' dangah, and 'ee got nowherez tah go! Poor lil' foxdog!" The wildcat mocked Squige, before spitting on him, "Whinah! A new age 'twill come wit Regina Vihata! A new age bettah then this Hellsgate dat Amor leads! Aye, yer Majesty?" She winked at Vihata, her grizly smile becoming larger.

Hemlock continued to toy with Squidge, "Do ye wanna know wot vill 'appened to yer precious Amor! Heehee! We'll pluck 'er white 'airs right off'a 'er! Then we'll boil her alive, just enough that she becomes all burnt, but nay dead! Aye, dat is the Queens job, harrharr! And aftah we burn Amor and 'err pesky followahs, Cadwen ovah there devours ye!! Hawhaw! Wot do ye t'ink about dat!?" Hemlock didn't know that was actually Cadwens intention to devour the fox. She just thought that Cadwen had been torturing Squidge when Vihata and she weren't down there, so she thought it would strike despair into Squidges heart if he heard that Cadwen was going to eat him.

[Malum]

Squidge wiped the spit off of him, and growled at Hemlock.

"You pathetic little wimp! You just switched sides because of some crap you saw in your 'visions'!" Squidge yelled, reaching towards Hemlock.

As she started talking about killing Amor, Squidge's sanity almost dissappeared. He growled at Hemlock again, and spit at her.

"Scum." He said simply.

Vihata smiled at him.

"Awww... Does Squidge have a crush on Amor?" She teased.

Squidge backed up, stunned.

"N-n-n-no I DON'T!" He said, blushing.

"Don't you get it? Amor would NEVER even THINK of loving you! You're just trash to her! Disposable, and Disgusting." Vihata said, smiling wickedly.

Squidge shook his head.

"No, no NO! She does care about me!" He yelled.