Areal in Dungeon

[kpjam]

Areal woke to the smell of freshly cooked food.

A couple thin pillows supported her head, a woolen blanket.  She lay upon a full-sized sleeping pallet.  Next to the sleeping place, was a tray full of food, cooked sausages, eggs, a glass of juice, a warm bread roll, and knife and fork.

The room was small, with stone walls and no windows.  A silver door was the only entrance, its glowing bars gave Arael a partial view into the outside from where she lay.

[thepanda]

Arael sat up slowly, trying to recall why she was in such a place. As memories from the previous night arose she was left with one lingering thought.

"Well this sucks."

She stood and approached the bars, careful to not touch them, and attempted to see further outside what was obviously a cell (or quite possibly a dorm room).

[kpjam]

Arael walked over to the door.  Peering out, she could see the profile of a soldier next to her door.  She could also see the other side of the wall, brick and plain.

[thepanda]

"Prison it is," Arael thought. She made her way back to the pallet and sat down, her mind trying to assess the situation. There wasn't much to assess, sadly.

First, she was in prison.

Second, Lafiel was the reason she was here, if memory served her. Probably meant she worked for the target. Oh yes, last night was disastrous indeed.

Not much more than that was known to her. She wasn't even sure the rest of the party hadn't been taken. All things considered it wasn't likely. At least not if Lafiel had worked by herself, and considering she had left Arael alive they probably weren't murdered in their sleep or anything like that.

Left with little to do Arael first checked herself to see what all had been taken, and then ate the food laid before her. If they had bothered to keep her alive this long there was a good chance that it wasn't poisoned.

Idly, she wondered exactly where she was.

[kpjam]

A quick check showed that Areal had been stripped of her items, but she was healthy.

[thepanda]

Finishing the meal Ararel stretched. Before she could recall the problems that were probably associated with the act she flexed her 'mental muscle', checking the level of power at her disposal.

[kpjam]

Her muscles came up empty.

[thepanda]

With nothing else to do at the moment she returned to the door, hoping to at least make out more of the guard's figure.

[kpjam]

The guards profile was unmoving.  His black hair was cropped short, under the leather helmet he wore.

Sound came from down the hallway, a door opened.  Footsteps were heard beneath the sound of the door closing again.

Twisting her head, Areal could see Lafiel walking towards her, a guard trailing behind.

"I see you're awake," Lafiel said.  "Step away from the door."

[thepanda]

Arael stepped away from the doorway, leaving plenty of room for her captors to enter.

[kpjam]

The lock made a change as it was opened, followed shortly by the door.  Lafiel strode in, eyes glaring at the captive woman.  A soldier, silver haired with a sword at his side stood in the doorway, watching as well.

"Why did you agree to help Arkanel?" she asked.

[thepanda]

"My, you certainly cut straight the point," Arael quipped. She leaned against one of the cell walls, her sapphire eyes easily meeting Lafiel's own.

"The reason I agreed to help? He made a very good offer. For helping to fight some great evil I get anything I want out of it? Do you know how few unspoiled places like that grassland remain back home? From what Arkanel told me there was plenty of room over here and judging from what I've seen so far it looked like a reasonable place to set up a colony." A look of annoyance crossed her features.

[kpjam]

"Colony?!  You want to take over this continent?!" Lafiel shrieked.  "You think killing Zaphiel will entitle you to walk in here and take over whatever you want?!"

[thepanda]

"Take over? Feh, I was under the impression from Arkanel that there was enough open land on this world that such extremes wouldn't be necessary. "

[kpjam]

"Under the impression or told?  I can't believe Akranel would allow you to found a settlement here... I know he wouldn't have said that?  So why do you want to move here, what's so bad about your world?"  Lafiel said.