[[Oh my god. I'm SO sorry, I had no idea that everyone was waiting for me! I just needed a break... plus I'd been on a short vacation, and school's just started... my life is hectic right now. Also... ever get one of those times where you just have to take a break from something... like an RP or a drawing series or... something? Yeah...]]
*Another set of stairs followed, straight, long, dark and mildewed. The Lupe left a trail of small droplets of blood as the Shoyru, Carbellon, half-carried, half dragged the limp form. He passed a small place where a terrified-looking guard stood, motioning for him to pass, trembling and quaking all the while. "The Pacehall is no place for the living," the Shoyru thought, seeing how frightened the young guard looked. Coming down a long row of cells, many long-empty, some smaller, with fetters, or without a window on the door, he paused at one, opening the steel door with a horrible, loud, metallic creak. The Captain let the Lupe fall onto a pile of straw, and fumbled along the wall in the dark.
Coming to a thick metal collar, long bereft of its captive, he took out a small, complicated-looking skeleton key and unlocked it. Carefully he snapped it around the neck of the limp Lupe, and turned the key again. The chain running through one of the two metal loops at either end- the back one- connected to the wall, right below a window which was not in the door (although there was one there) - but one to another section of the underground darkness. A slight blue glow emanated from it. As Carbellan finished chaining the Lupe to the wall, the eerie blue light grew from the window, and a horrible rushing sound came towards it. Abandoning all pretense, Carbellan shielded his eyes, running out of the cell, shoving the key in his pocket. He slammed the door behind him and locked it, still hearing the sound of rushing, and a faint shrieking call.
Heart pounding wildly, the Shoyru Captain ran, passing many empty cells and the guard, who was now kneeling with his head in his hands, crying. Up the damp staircase, out of the dark! If anybody was coming his way, he did not know... but this he did know. It was rumoured by the guard that the blue light chose who it would devour- and unless his terror was baseless, it had chosen him.*
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