Thursday, January 17, 2008

Blood God

After shooting the arrow to Shar'tok's heart, Socio didn't get far to the jungle. She was tired and didn't pay attention to her surroundings. She had set Sade free just moment ago and Shadow was sleeping in her backbag.
Suddenly army of trolls on green and black raptors appeared. They weren't Empire, they were someting else. Socio didn't have time to react before she was violently pulled up to one of the raptors. Troll behind her knocked her out and after that everything went black.
Socio wake up inside some sort of temple. She was locked up into a cage, hands tied. It was dark, but she heard something or someone moving around the cage. Her head was aching and she was hungry. After listening a while she knew what shared the room with her. Cats, big cats, panthers or maybe tigers. The moistness and scent of the air told her she was still in Vale or at least she wasn't far from there. She tried the walls of the cage, but she was too weak to try anything to break free.
She had lost the track of time, when someone finally came, walking slowly with a flaming torch. The cage was opened and she was again pulled up violently. "Don't you try anything stupid" troll said, almost hissing. Socio didn't answer, just followed him. When they reached the doorway of the temple, troll pushed her to the path following right. "Hakkar himself wants to see you" the troll said and pushed her again to her back, this time more roughly. Socio felt her heart taking some extra beats, she felt sweat falling down on her skin. Hakkar, Blood God, she was in Zul'gurub, city that Empire has been trying to retake so long. She felt angry again, enraged. She knew what Hakkar wanted. He wanted her head, no doubt.
Now Socio didn't have Shar'tok on her mind. She had to get free. She seriously had to. But she had no weapons. She was wearing some silly ceremonial dress, wich wasn't hers. She was tied up and beaten up. She saw dried wounds on her hands and feet, and her body was aching. And there was guards. Lots of guards, emotioneless trolls who were carrying big axes. But did she want to give up without a fight?
All went blurry again. Socio remembers running, and falling to the ground, small rocks stratching her knees and hands. She remembers shouting around her, arrows passing from left and right. Pain in her back and legs, feeling of warm blood on her skin. She doesn't remember how she got out, she doesn't remember where she ran after that.

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