Starlight

chapter ten

Tauriel POV
It had been four days since Nellathiel had left, so far everything had been the same as it was before she had left. But today the orcs came early. They took me to the room that the leader was in, today there was a chair in the middle of the room and as usual the smirking captain. When we reached the leader he pushed me down onto the chair, then proceeded to tie me to it with rope. I did not struggle since I knew it was useless. There was a bowl of liquid next to me I eyed it cautiously, the orc must have seen me and chuckled "Wondering what that is?" he said. I didn't answer but he continued anyway "That dearie is a slow killing poison," my eyes widened and he laughed. He then pulled out a dagger and dipped it in the poison, he admired it as if it was the most precious jewel in the world. He looked up at me and smiled his black teeth gleaming. He walked over to me and grabbed my arm and rolled the sleeve of my tunic up. Then ever so slowly brought the dagger down. He started from my elbow and dragged the dagger down to my wrist. I screamed in agony. It burned the poison only mqde it worse I could already feel it. He then did the same to my other arm. If I thought all the whippings and beatings were bad they were nothing compared to this. I screamed again and again. I had never experienced something so painful in my life. He dragged the dagger down my cheek and smiled when the blood dripoed down my pale face. He dipped the dagger in the poison again and cut my leg this time. I was losing a lot of blood, I felt light headed. This along with the pain was enough to make me pass out and I welcomed the darkness like an old friend.
I woke up in my cell the next day. My clothes were filthy, they had tons of dried blood on them but there was nothing I could do. My body was aching I knew that the poison was in my blood stream. I rolled my sleeves up to see how bad my wounds were. It was still bleeding slightly but not a lot. My legs were another story. My right leg felt as if it was on fire, he had torn my calf muscle with dagger. I jumped as I heard the door being opened, there was an orc standing there, he then took me to the leader. "You are probably wondering why I have brought you here dearie," he said I gave no response "well now that the slow killing poison is in your blood strean I have decided it would be best to return you to your kin," I looked up shocked "and you will watch them suffer as they watch you suffer." he said. I then realised why he wanted to return me to Mirkwood. He wanted everyone to suffer while I suffered. I then knew that I needed to keep the fact that I am poisoned to myself so no one else suffers.