Silver beads

Chapter 6: Cages for All

We heard crunching of many people and before my mom and I could turn back to human we were thrown in a cage together with Talia separate from us. I was yelling Talia's name as we were loaded on carriages. Talia was going to doom with us. Where we were going was a castle that was black with battlements looking like claws. The knights were looking at us like gold coins from a treasure chest.

"Hey, pretty, pretty!" A knight said to me, sticking his disgusting finger through the bars to touch me. "Aw! P-retty!" That knight used the P syllable to spit at me.

The knight and his two pals kept talking dirty to us as we made it into the castle. We were brought into the black, red, and sliver throne room. Seth (based on my mother's descriptions) smiled at us. I told my mother to act like a fairy.

"My my! Who do we have here?" Seth had the nerve to take me out and stuck some kind of needle in my wings. I couldn't flap them anymore.

Seth shut the cage door and kept me in his leather gloved hand. He squeezed me a bit and set me down on the silver armrest of his throne. I looked up into his icy aquamarine eyes with hatred. He smiled at my glance and patted my head hard. I tried to fly away of the armrest but whatever the injection was made me not able to fly. Seth saw me trying to fly and laughed at me. I thought it was hopeless until I realized I forgot an element to practice: rock.