Taken From Mirkwood [Middle-Earth fanfic]

Chapter Two

Melaina's POV

I wake up slowly as I realize again where I am. Not in Mirkwood, in Dol Guldur, surrounded by Orcs. When I open my eyes, I glance around at my all too familiar home. It consists of exactly four iron cage walls and an iron door. This "cage" has been my home for a couple of months.
It is quite a step down from the large luxurious beds in Mirkwood. In Mirkwood, I had a giant room, a family who loved me (well at least a 'brother' who loved me), and lots of food. Here, I have nothing. Not even the freedom to take a bath. I am still wearing the clothes I arrived in, but by now, they are in tatters. My captors barely feed me. Only once a week I receive a raw piece of meat and a flask of muddy water. I don't complain, it's all I have.
When I first arrived, I tried to escape, scream, and yell. But that only brought more punishment. It never worked in my favor.
The last time I tried to escape was when I hid behind the door. I waited until an Orc came in with my food, and them I tried to strangle him. I failed, which earned me chains and a whipping.
So now, I don't even have the freedom to move around. I'm stuck to the wall so only my feet can move. The only time I get unchained is when I am needed for something, or it is time to eat.
I think back to how I got captured. I had been talking with my father, telling him that Elronis had just proposed to me. He had told me that I couldn't marry Elronis for he was merely a guard, and I was a princess. Oh...did I forget to mention that? Yes. I am a princess and my father is king Thranduil, and Legolas is my caring brother and the only one who seems to understand me. Well, I had told him that he couldn't stop me from marrying Elronis and he then had told me that he was the king AND my father and blah blah blah. Something about how I needed to respect him. So anyways, I bolted out the door crying, and ran to the stables. I didn't even bother putting on a saddle. I just grabbed my horse and rode out of there. As I was riding, an Orc pack had ambushed me. I tried my best to fight them off, but there was just too many. They took me and killed my horse but not without stabbing me in the leg first, so I couldn't run away.
Then they had brought me here, Dol Guldur, the evil fortress. I was thrown into this cage after they stripped me of my weapons and items I had on me. I tried to hide a necklace that Elronis had given me, but they had found it and taken it. After that, I had been left with nothing.
Then, each day, they had brought me out, questioned me, and tortured me for no reason. At first, I tried to escape many times. Each try failed and earned me one of the following: lashes, chains, knife wounds, no food, and sometimes they had even, chained me up to the side of the highest tower for a day to just hang there. I almost gave up several times, but as I already said, I couldn't, for Elronis.