Save me back

Part.1

Hyungwon was brought to the city on a small wooden boat. His hands cuffed together by a rope and it bruised his wrists.

He didn't dare to complain about it though. The general and his soldiers would hit and kick him if he did and he had no more power left to fight back.

The boat stopped at a long pier, so long that it seemed like it had been built with the goal of reaching the other side of the ocean. Hyungwon took a good look at his new surroundings while they prepared to leave the boat. The houses of the city were almost all made of wood and only a few of stone. The weather was windy and cold and Hyungwon could smell that it was about to snow soon. The city was surrounded by a dense forest and a few mountains further into the land. The nature was ready to fall into a deep and well deserved winter sleep.

"Stand up, pretty!" the general screamed at Hyungwon who was still sitting on the ground. He was pulled up on this feet roughly by one of the soldiers and was lead over the pier right to a market. Fish and skins were sold. Dried meat and cabbage. The people here were wrapped in many layers of clothes to keep themselves warm. Hyungwon wore nothing but his thin shirt and pants and he was barefoot. He was freezing but luckily for him his body could take a lot so only his naked feet and his fingers were red and burning from the cold.

The people, who gathered around them, looking what the general of the neighbor kingdom had brought this time, all seemed like they were pretty well of. None of them seemed to be starving or homeless, which meant that this city was doing well by trading and selling goods with other cities far away.

A man with a beard came up to the general. He wore the skin of a bear around his shoulders. The general greeted him as if they were old friends.

"Who's that boy you brought, general? If that's even a boy." the bearded man asked with his husky and eyed Hyungwon from head to toe, with a voice deeper than the black of his hair.

"My king has a present for your lord." the general said. A weird smile formed on his face and Hyungwon knew that it meant no good.

"A present, huh?" The man eyed Hyungwon once again. Hyungwon felt awful, but he tried to keep his face as expressionless as he could.

They were lead through the market and further into the city. Hyungwon was probably the talk of the town already as people gathered around them the whole way.

They stopped in front of one of the few houses made out of dark stone and it was the biggest of all buildings, too. A big wooden door was opened and they entered a huge hall. Some fireplaces and torches illuminated the otherwise gloomy and dark room, as barely any sunlight made it into the hall. All furniture looked dull and heavy skins and tapestries in dark colors decorated the walls.

They stopped in the middle of the hall, facing the empty throne at the end of the room. A huge chair made of almost black wood with surprisingly granular carved decorations. The two armrests formed two angry looking wolf heads baring their teeth. The back also forming a wolf ready to attack.

Left and right side of the throne were standing two people. They seemed to be soldiers but they were way less armed than the soldiers who had brought Hyungwon to this place. They looked less fierce and more elegant. Everyone was quiet and Hyungwon would hear the people and the noises from the market through the still opened door.

"Welcome to Borg Mon, general." a voice suddenly echoed through the hall and a man appeared behind the throne.

He wasn't covered in layers of skins and fur and wore nothing but a thin dark red shirt with a decorative collar. His pants and boots were made of black leather and so tight that Hyungwon could see each muscle on his thighs moving as he walked. His shoulders were wide and his chest broad.