Let Ashes Be Burned〔Haitus!〕

New beginnings (2)

Cale woke up the following morning to the fearful whispers and mumbles of the usual guards, 'well, besides the one that had his leg amputated.' Cale couldn't help the way his lips twitched at the thought of his and the young black dragon's captors in pain. Speaking of said incident, that seemed to be the guard's chosen topic

The guards seemed almost scared as they whispered, glancing into Cale and the black dragon's shared cell every now and then, Cale would pretend to still be unconscious when that happened

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Cale winced at the sound of the cell door opening and the claws of young black dragon that clenched onto his ruined shirt, as it let out a growl, promising nothing but pain to the one that dared to interrupt its sleep

When Cale opened his eye, he was greeted to the sight of the torturer shaking in fear as he threw food in their direction and swiftly left, it seems as though the previous days events had scared the torturer quite a bit.

It was only once the torturer left and could no longer be seen or heard that the young black dragon stopped its growling, instead choosing to stare at Cale. Thinking the young black dragon is hungry, Cale moved to get up only to wince when pain made him lightheaded and unable to stand. He winced again when the black dragon let out what sounded like an annoyed sigh and stood up. The sound of chains moving across stone was much more unsettling than usual.

The black dragon had gotten up and dragged their food - if it can even be called that - to a corner as far away from the gaurds as possible and gestured for Cale to move over, not wanting to further upset the young black dragon than it already seemed to be, he did

Once Cale was seated next to the young black dragon, it laid its head on his lap and pushed the food, both the old and stale bread that was his and the black dragon's own slab of uncooked meat towards him using its wings, the black dragon then threw an expectant look his way

"... You want me to eat?" The black dragon nodded, followed by a slow, expectant blink

Cale sighed, he guessed the black dragon wasn't willing to talk around their captors, so he did what the black dragon asked and started on eating the bread, although he pushed the slab of unidentifiable meat belonging to the black dragon back at it.
'At least it's not moldy,' he thought humorless as he chewed slowly on the stale, dry bread.

It wasn't until the fith bite he took of that god forsaken bread that he realized how hungry he actually was. It seems he won't be giving the black dragon any bread this time... speaking of the black dragon, why is it just staring at him without eating?

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Seems he won't be able to ponder the black dragon's eating habits for long as the sound of shoes hitting stone entered his ears, a tell-tale sign of Venion. Cale almost instinctively curled his arms around the young black dragon, holding it tight to his chest and startling it accidentally, in the back of his mind, he thought he was lucky to have earned this much of the black dragon's trust

This time, it was Cale who let out an animalistic growl, sounding a lot like the one the dragon let out earlier, warning Venion and the torturer to stay away from what was his, yes, his. The black dragon may decide to leave him once they escape, but until they escape from their shared cell, he will consider this dragon his and his alone

His effort to scare Venion off was useless in the end as Venion simply ordered the gaurds to separate them via tugging on the shackles binding them, and thus, Cale was forced to separate from the black dragon. He was reminded that just because he would be spared for a while, it doesn't mean that the black dragon would