Festival of the Dead

Chapter 16: Surprise twist

Gia noticed the strange person's hand and she figured it had to be a man especially one with a grip like that and dark hair on his fingers. He blindfolded both of them and they felt themselves being shoved onto a wagon of some sort and it had already started move. "Everything is going to be alright," whispered Gia reassuring Mystra. The horses halted. As they were pulled out of the wagon and into a building the smell of mildew filled the air. They were struggling to get down the flight of stairs being blindfolded and all. The man pushes them into a dusty cell, pulls off the blindfolds from their big scared eyes, and locks them in.

They lied on the dirty floor with bugs crawling over the walls exhausted. It was a terrible night. The sun shining through a little crack of a blocked window making it late morning or noon time. The man finally comes down not hooded this time bringing them bread and water that didn't look clean. Gia doesn't look up until she hears his voice saying, "Rise and shine beautiful!"

"LIAM..." Gia stammered. "What... Wa.. Wa.. Why on earth are you doing this?!"

Mystra's mouth hung open in shock, her small green eyes bulging out and her eyebrows raised.

"I saw all that information you both had on me and I couldn't risk being found out. I'm sorry," explained Liam.

"SO WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO KEEP US HERE FOREVER?!" yelled Gia. She couldn't believe he'd been the one all along.

"If that is the only way. I guess you are going to be staying here. Enjoy." grinned Liam.

"YOU SON OF A GUN!" Mystra yelled as he was going up the stairs. She wasn't the type to say those things because they weren't 'ladylike'.

Days past without a sight of Liam. He was most probably out killing more people of the town. While he was doing that, Mystra and Gia planned their escape and had it all set. They had a weapon for escape and now they just needed Liam to come. Gia got up and started shaking the cold metal bars of the cell.

"Follow my lead and we shall be out in no time," Gia told Mystra.

After a while their arms began to ache so they stopped.

"It's awfully quiet. He must not be home?" said Mystra who was puzzled.

Her question was answered by the opening of the door to the "dungeon" with someone clanking down the narrow stairs. It was Guinevere, the scientist. Without a word she let them out of the cell. As they were running out of this hellhole they made their way around Liam's body which was lying still with a pool of blood underneath him. Gia didn't feel an ounce of sadness for him except hatred.

The End