A plate of food was pushed in through a small opening at the bottom of the door. It was a small and long slit, suitable for a plate of food and anything else small that was to be placed inside.
Adar walked over to the plate of food, seeing meat for the first time in two weeks. Rice was also in the plate along with beans.
It had been a day since he attempted to attack Langstrom, and suddenly he received a plate of food.
What fools... do they believe me to fall for something as ridiculous as this ? Poison.
"Eat up. " said the guardsmen, looking through the bars.
Adar picked up the plate and held it out to the guardsmen, behind the bars.
"I do not have much of an appetite right now, you may have it if you wish or someone else who is hungry might appreciate it more than I. "
The guardsmen eyed him, "I'm under orders to give you the plate of food, nobody else may touch the food but you. "
"You're under orders to keep watch and to keep the prisoners in their cells unless called out. But you allow them to fight out of their cells." said Adar smiling.
"I'm also under orders to make sure you consume your food. No matter what it takes even if I must forcefully and manually make you do so."
Adar took a few steps back and threw the plate of food at the bars. The plate broke on impact causing food and plate pieces to scatter inside and out the room. The guardsmen cursed. The food had landed all over him.
"I should teach you respect vermin! "
Adar put up his fists and pulled his sleeves down to his elbows. "Why don't you try to you sorry excuse for a guard. "
The guardsmen's face turned bright red. He pulled out his keys and began to unlock the door.
This is my chance, thought Adar, Once I deal with him I can finally escape this miserable place.
Another guardsmen came from behind the angered guardsmen trying to unlock the door.
"Smith you fool! Do not unlock that door, no matter how angry you are! Have you gone mad! "
Smith spun around to meet his fellow guardsmen, "Robert, he has disrespected me. I will not allow that to go unpunished! "
"If you open those doors then Langstrom will bestow upon you a bigger punishment than the one you will give the boy!"
Smith seemed to hold his anger upon the reminder of Langstrom.
" You'll be rotated out for the next guard in an hour." said Robert. " Hold that anger of yours in until then. We cannot afford to make any mistakes while Langstrom is here. He accepts nothing less than perfection."
Smith hit the door and walked away, cursing loudly. Prisoners from across the hallway began to Jeer from inside their cells.
"The fools gonna get it now! "
"A fight I would bet on! " shouted another.
Laughs began to rise.
Robert walked to the door and banged his fist on it. "Keep quit! If you persist to make noise you will be punished without mercy! "
The men seemed to have gotten the message, thought Adar. Silence followed after the guardsmen's warning.
Robert walked back to Adar's cell, " One more mistake like that and you'll regret it. "
YOU ARE READING
Adar
FantasySet in the 18th century, colonial America, this story is set around the life of a boy, a boy who has always lived a life of pain . Now what he has just currently suffered, is beyond pain, grief, and death. He enters into a new era in his life, an e...
