Endless Oblivion, Wrong place, Right time... Options

[davion]

I awoke in an Imperial Prison to the voice of a Dunmer tossing insults at me. I would have thought that after three years of being in the cell across from him he would stop. I grew immune to his insults and vauge references to me being a female Dunmer, but his voice was just so irratating! He had drove my brother insane enough to kill himself about a year and a half ago.

I hated him even more for another reason though. My brother didn't get sent to prison for about two years after me. I've been in this hell-hole since i was seventeen. I served six years in that prison for a crime I did not commit. A murder of some sort that was linked to the Dark Brotherhood. The Dunmer across the cell though I wish I had killed.

I never knew his name, noone would tell me, and I was too disgusted to want to know it also. See, when I first arrived in the prison, the very first day in fact, i heard the Dunmer and the Guard Captain discussing something, but I couldn't make it out. I found out soon enough what they were talking about. See, the Dunmer had bribed the guard to unlock both our cells after the shift change.

Later that night, he came into my cell with a dagger that he some how managed to keep hidden from the guards. The dagger had some magical property on it to paralyse on contact. I am sorry I cannot go into detail, but this is a legacy I leave for my children, and I don't want them to know in full detail what happened to me.

I was terrified! I wanted to scream, but the poison rendered my vocal cord useless. All I could do was stay there and wait for the nightmare to end! This had never happened to me before, so it scared me deeply. I cried uncontrollably in my mind until I cried myself asleep. After what felt like an eternity he leaned over to me and wispered, "If you tell anybody I will kill you" into my ear. The next day I woke up with a guard standing over me with a fresh change of clothes. He didn't say anything to me, just nelt down beside where I was, handed me the clothes and walked out. I picked up the shirt and put it on, followed by the pants and I put the sandles next to the box besides my bed. Inside of the pant pocket was a note from the guard... it read,

"Dear Selina,
I am terrably sorry about what I agreed with Valeth about last night. I am really not like that, but he offered me one hundred gold coins to look the other way. That hundred will go a long way to feed my children... forgive me.....

My Apologies, it wont happen again.
Imperial Prison Guard Captain, Juhrre."

But it did happen again, and again, and again. On and off for two years, until the time my brother was put in the same cell as me. What the guard captain didn't realize is that the Dunmer, Valeth, stole the captains key to my cell, and a lockpick he confiscated from someone earlier. The guard thought he had just misplaced the key.

I layed there, staring at the bones of my brother in rubble on the cell ground next to me. It bothered me that the guard did not remove his body, but even though he was dead, talking to him still kept me sane from what was happening to me with Valeth. His spirit would some times come to me and fend off Valeth for a day or so, but his spectre just reminded me how he murdered himself and was being tortured for it.

Chapter One

Valeth was doing his usual insults and let downs, but today was different. I heard a voice at the top of the stairs that I had never heard down in the prison. I couldn't match the face with the voice until himself and his bodyguards were in my cell. The Emperor of Tamriel himself! I overheard one of the female Blades tell the other guard that they would have to use the secret entrance that was through my cell to let the emperor make his escape.

The emperor looked at me then said, "I know you.... let me see your face."


Too be continued.........





(OOC: okay i think i touched it up to where i think all the graphic detail has been removed/replaced with cleaner sentances. let me know if you guys see any more that might not be acceptable, thanks)

This post has been edited by davion: Apr 2 2006, 06:11 AM

[davion]

I had no clue what he was talking about, so I just staired at him confused.

"Yes, I've seen you before. Your the one from my dreams"

I still couldn't understand what he was talking about. He continued to tell me that the stars were right and that the nine had lead our fates togeather with an invisible hand. I can't recall the conversation we had, because I was just still in the middle of trying to comprehend and figure out what he was talking to me about. I thought he was just a cenile old man whos' reached his end. One thing was for certain though, I had a free ticket out of this hell. No more stale bread, no more nights of sleeping on the cold stone floor. Especially no more Valeth!

The female bodyguard had told the Emperor and the other Blades that they should keep the door open because there was no way to open it from the other side incase they would need to retreat back into the prison. The Redguard didn't seem to happy about the idea, but had no other choice. He approached me stedily and told me to stay out of their way. I nodded, looked over, picked up my brothers skull and carried it out of the cell with me to give him a proper bariel.

Chapter Two - Assassins

So far I had managed to make it through the cavern without incident from the Blades. I over-heard conversations being passed back and forth between the Blades soldiers and the Emperor. It seemed as if all of the Emperors' sons' have been assassinated and there are no heirs to the throne. I could care less I was making my way to Morrowind once I got out of the prison! I've seen all I needed to see of Cyrodiil. At least the Dunmer in Morrowind treated their own kind with some sort of respect!

My train of thought was broken when I heard one of the Blades shout out, "Protect the Emperor!". I looked up and saw three men in full black body armour attack the Blades guardsmen. The first of the Blades to fall was the woman. She went down with ease, her Akaviri Katana made what would usually be a loud metallec clank, fell dim with the sounds of metal clashing against metal. I saw the Emperor hurry towards me! I didn't know if he had thought I was one of the assassins, but when I saw the real assassin running behind him, trying to catch up, I knew he was fleeing. I had to do something, but I had no weapon, and I wasn't good at street fighting.

The assassin flew into the air then crashed down hard onto his back, motionless. Shattered fragments of my brothers skull lay around the assassins head, showing just how brutal the force of the throw was. For some strange reason the assassins armour dissapeared, leaving a maroon hood and cape that had the initials, "M.D." over the left breast. Before I had time to figure out what the initials meant, one of the guards were already accusing me of being their accomplace!

I begged and pleaded with the guard, hoping he wouldn't cut me down where I stood, but the Emperor interviened on my behalf. He ordered them to stand down and that I was going to be playing a major role in the events to come. I didn't know if I believed him or not, but this situation got really thick really fast! He started telling me something again, but just as last time, I faded in and out of his conversation with me. A few seconds later Burus approached me and said that I should might as well make myself usefull and lead the way with the toarch he was carring. Apparently I was expendable.