Stars Like Us

Chapter 3: Kenric

A/N: Sorry this took so long! I've had to focus on my first trimester exams these past few weeks! This actually is supposed to take place in Legacy, so sorry about the Elysian moment in chapter two. But... Here it is! 1167  Words, enjoy!!!
-Amelia

  Hot.

  That was all Kenric could think of.

  He thought he and Oralie could just be together after all this was over.

  But here he was.

  Locked up in a nightmare of a prison.

  Being held captive of the Neverseen.

  Probably never to be seen again.

  He was just trying to survive. To live. To get back to Ora. But the Neverseen obviously wouldn't let him go because they needed him for information. No matter how many times he told them that the Council didn't tell him anything important, they still tortured him, pressed him,

  Burned him.

   Kenric shuddered at the thought. The Everblaze that almost took his life away, always came back to haunt him in his dreams. No matter how hard he tried, it wouldn't go away.

  He shook his what-used-to-be-Red-now-Dark-Brown hair out of his eyes. The concrete floor underneath him was cold, even with the fire surrounding him. The Neverseen had used fire as a barrier instead of walls.

  As much as he hated being held captive, he got good food.

  No seriously, they got him mallowmelt and strawberry swirls.

  The sad thing was that he had to watch Neverseen prisoners come and go.

   Even children!!!

  The first prisoner was basically the worst person he would want to be held captive.

  Keefe Sencen.

  Kenric had always liked Keefe. They were similar in a bunch of different ways. They both liked to joke around, they both smiled a lot, they had similar personalities, he could go on forever.

  But seeing him in the Neverseen's clutches broke his already broken heart even more.

  Keefe just looked so miserable. His smile was gone, his jokes were replaced by sad silence, he just didn't look like the Keefe Sencen Kenric knew and loved.

  But Keefe left.

  Then, in what Kenric thought was recent, another young boy came in.

  This one Kenric didn't recognize.

  He had black hair with silvery tips on his long bangs and said his name was Tam Song.

  And Tam Song was who fed Kenric.

  While Kenric didn't know much about Tam, he liked him.

He was always fun to be around. And he swapped out the Neverseen's gross food for Mallowmelt and strawberry swirls. They usually talked quietly about life before the Neverseen, but he always had to go within an hour.

  Or what Kenric thought was an hour.

  He couldn't tell anymore.

  Days were minutes.

  Minutes were weeks.

  Weeks were seconds.

  Seconds were months.

  Months were hours.

  Hours were years.

  Years were days.

  It was all just a pile of time that he couldn't pick apart.

  All he knew was that he would escape.

  And he would do it today.

  Well, hopefully.

  Tam had told him that Gisela was planning on attacking the Black Swan and the Council that night. He also told him that Kenric would be held captive because the Neverseen didn't think Ora would be there.

  Another young girl was part of the Neverseen.

  Nobody knew her real name, but her code name was Glimmer.

  Glimmer wasn't the nicest, but she got Kenric a thin, ragged blanket to sleep with even though the Neverseen specifically said no blankets at night. Glimmer was also escaping that night.

  The final plan was:

  1) Tam and Glimmer would pop out of the ground holding Kenric and King Enki, (the Dwarven King).

  2) Glimmer would cut Tam's wrist bonds with light, setting him free.

  3) Tam would untie Kenric.

  4) Kenric, Tam, and Glimmer would sprint free- after Gisela was done whatever she was planning on doing to Keefe-, grab the others, and have Sophie teleport them away.

  It was a simple plan, but it had to be executed perfectly in order to work.

  As Tam came in that night, for what would hopefully be Kenric's final Neverseen meal, he Man-hugged Kenric and wished him good luck.

  Kenric ran a hand through his hair, "Thanks brother, I really do appreciate all you've done for me the past few whatever its been."

  Tam smiled and whispered, "We are getting out of here tonight. No matter what it takes."

  Kenric didn't have the muscles to smile anymore. He just nodded. He was still pondering on the fact that if the plan didn't work, then he would be sent to eternal torture.

  As Tam got up, Kenric couldn't help but be a little hopeful that he might actually get out of there that night.

  A amount of time passed, Kenric's hope was starting to fade away as he assumed the sky was getting darker because the fire was only getting brighter.

  Then, the fire disappeared. But then Gisela appeared.

  "Well, well, well," She said carefully, "If it isn't our little Everblaze boy."

  Kenric glared at her, "Yes, it's me." He mumbled.

  "Is our weak little Councilor ready for the show?" She said as Tam and Glimmer appeared behind her.

  "I'll never be ready with you here," He mumbled. He glanced over at Tam, who was fighting a smile.

  "Oh well," She said, "Guess you'll never be ready, but to bad. You need to get changed into these. That boy will help you." She threw a pair of Neverseen cloaks at him, then pointed at Tam, who had his already had his hood covering his face. Yet Kenric could've sworn he could see the eye roll Tam sent in Gisela's direction. Gisela then told them, "If you're not ready in five minutes, then you're not coming along. Hmmmm, I wouldn't mind that... A girls trip could be fun... Ill think about it." Gisela and Glimmer scurried out of the room, but not before Gisela yelled back to them, "THE TIME STARTS NOW!"

  As Tam helped him change, Kenric was surprised that the robes fit him, "Any idea what Gisela is planning on doing to Keefe?" Kenric asked Tam.

  Tam looked around and whispered, "I think she is planning on making Keefe manifest another ability, I don't know which one, but it sounds pretty scary."

  Kenric lied down and put his hands under his head. "Y'know, sometimes I feel like I just... like I wanna die."

  "I understand." Replied Tam, "But don't, I know Or... Everyone would miss you a lot."

  Kenric caught the catch in his voice as he almost mentioned Ora. That made him blush. Tam smirked at Kenric's red face. "Getting homesick?" Asked Tam, "I know, well, I don't know, but I can assume how much Oralie means to you."

  "She means the world to me.." Said Kenric dreamily, "More than anyone could ever imagine. She has been my courage to keep living, and to try and escape."

  "I know," Said Tam confidently, "And that is why we are going to escape."