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]

Chapter Five - Merchants Inn

I made it through the sewers with very little problems. The only threat I ran into was a goblin, if you can consider a goblin a threat. I mean, he went down with about half a hit from my blade. I laughed at the simplicity of it all. I did, however, manage to find some skeletons with armour and some miscelanious items strewn about their bodies. I found about a full set of Iron Armour, save for the gaunts and a helm. I also found an axe, but after giving it a few practice swings, I decided I liked the sword better, because it was more well balanced and flowed smoother. Plus it didn't hurt your hand when you inpacted something with it. None the less, I decided I should take it with me and see if I can't sell it and get enough money for a room and a hot meal.

I had just stepped out of the sewers into the night, taking in deep breaths, when something horrable happened....... I inhaled a nat!

"Phffft"

It was grose! I immediately went to the dock and shoveled in handfuls of water. I forgot this is salt water, and I began to heave all over my boots. Chunks of stuff I haven't even eaten were stuck to the boots!

"There's the nat...."

Then I picked it up with my fingers, placed it in the palm of my hand, and flicked it out into the water. I don't know why, but at that moment I felt like a Hopeless Housewife! I giggled embarrassed, even though noone was around.

My body could start to feel the effects of the handfulls of salt water I digested, because my lips were breaking, my throat was really dry and irratated. The closest town I could see where I was to was the Imperial City of Cyrodill. I had heard that if you go into town bloodied and battered from fighting the undead, then the man at the "Merchants Inn" would give you a free, cooked meal.

Where was I to get some undead bones though or echtoplasm, or even zombie flesh for that matter?! I remembered about the skeletons I looted the armour from, and decided to go back into the sewers, and grab a skull and some bone shivvings. Now the problem was making it look like i was in a fight with the thing? I had an idea!

I pulled out the axe I had, and cut a gash across my arm. Now I didn't actually try to cut my arm off, I just cut a few layers of flesh so that when he would look at it, it would look like a clean cut. Also, the axe from the thing having blood on it would help. I just hopped this would work.

I got to the Merchants Inn about I'd have to say about an hour or so later. My arm was throbbing, like if you were to give yourself a paper cut with an envelope. I kept having to stop myself from going for the health potion I looted from the Goblins so that it wouldn't conseal the wound.

The first place I went into in the Imperial City was the merchants block. I knew the Inn would be there, so that was the first place I went. From where I entered, the Inn was straight ahead of me and to the left. I could either go by the map that someone had told me once, or by the big sign outside of the businesses.... yeah I thought the sign was a good idea too.

When I came in, the place was oddly desolate for a Inn/Bar. In any case, I walked up to the front counter where the owner was standing, and with my bloodied arm, I tossed the skull and bloodied bone shivvings on the counter.

"I'd like a room and a hot meal please!"

As I stared at him and smiled, he seemed to examine me.

"Ten gold ma'am."

My heart dropped, and my facial expression showed it with stunning results.

"Ten gold? I don't even have a shilling!"

the man sized me up again.

"Then I can't help ya!"

I sighed, and tried giving him the cute girly pouty face reutine, which failed amazingly.

"Well, all the shops are closed right now, what If I give you my armour as collateral until I can get down to the shop and sell some of this stuff?"

I tried giving him the pouty eyes again, still he wouldn't flinch. That cold-hearted bafoon!

"Okay, you got a deal miss. Here's the key to the room upstairs and immediately on your left. Your meal will be up to you shortly."

As soon as he said okay I began stripping like a dancer at the Earthly Delights! I had to stop myself because I almost took off my shirt! Oh my that would have been embarrassing. In any case, I took the mans key and proceeded to my room. A nice, warm room on a nice, soft bed would be like heaven.

I layed on the bed for several minutes, doing nothing but enjoying how good everything felt. I lost count how many times I kissed my pillow.

"Yer meals ready miss."

I heard the man call for me and then knock on my door. I told him it was open and he came in, and placed the food down on the table next to the door. It was a sight to behold! Red Meat, Potatoes, Tomatoes, Carrots and Letuce! And to top it off he gave me a full bottle of wine. The wine may have been cheap, but It was delicious!

I giggled like a little girl and jumped off the bed and rushed the dinner table! I picked up the fork and the knife and gazed at the food, thinking it was too good to be true! If it was, I didn't care, I was going to get as much of it as I could, while I could!

Right as I went to take my first chunk out of the Viel Meat, that stupid nat showed up again! I told him it was war, and that noone was leaving until one of us was dead! I put a napkin over my food to keep the nat away from it, and picked up a cloth and wound it up like a whip, locked onto it, and flicked the towl at it! I nailed it directly! I know that because I saw it fumble down onto the floor!

I laughed in triumph over the nat and sat back down to eat. I grabbed the fork and knife and began to cut. I was so excited I just wanted to grab it with my hands and start gourging at it like an animal!

I picked up the piece of cut meat with the fork, and stared at its magnificance. Then, out of nowhere, the damnedable nat landed on the piece of meat I was going to put in my mouth! My eyes grew black with rage, just like in the cave....