Lilia – Fight for a soul
Chapter 1: Freeing Lilia
Slowly and gently the drop ran down the black stone of the cave, glistening with moisture. Searching its way through countless alleys laid before it, gathering at the edge, and falling down, slightly enlarged, into the puddle formed by its predecessors.
It was cold. Almost freezing. But not freezing enough to stop the water, to solidify it.
And it was calm. Not still, because there was too much life sneaking in the shadows. But the creatures of the night lived side by side quietly, a kind of symbiosis of darkness.
It was this living calmness, this silent pepperiness that made the dungeon cruel.
Lilia tried to move, but it hurt too much, as usual. They had bound her arms with iron cuffs above her head into the stone, used strong rags to prevent her from opening her fists and bound her feet together with strong ropes. They must have feared she might escape.
A smile flitted over Lilia's pretty face.
„Those humans", she thought amused. She would have sacrificed a lot to know how long she had been captured by now. No one ever came to her. If she remembered it right the entrance to the cave had been closed with a big rock.
"Probably with magic", she thought, and that made her smile again.
Humans were afraid of all things new.
They never had believed that it had been their well-known, oh so well valued magician of the town betraying them, leading them to ruin. Rather, they had blamed the young witch, who had just had arrived in town.
Lilia had given them a run for their money.
Her appearance was so young, but she was not. She had an experience of life the oldest resident in that town could not beat.
Lilia was not even human. Not really. Not anymore.
"I am bored", she said to a rat, which looked up to her in surprise, cocking its head.
"Why not just leave?" Lilia thought about it a moment. "I was tired. Sometimes a little sleep feels very good. Well, this position is not that comfortable. But I am well rested now." She closed her eyes, exhaled deeply, which battered her features, gathered her powers, sent them into legs and arms and was free.
"You see?", she said to the rat. "If I want to, I can do it."
She stood up slowly. Over and over again she had given herself power to prepare herself.
Now was the time.
She stepped through the cave and with every step she caused the living calmness to turn into panic. Everything shooed, swarmed around and the water on the walls solidified.
Lilia reached the exit. It only took a little movement of her hand to break the rock.
She went outside into the fresh air, the daylight, looked at the world, a great lake.
Overlooked the meadow, fields and beheld a castle far away with curiosity and amazement. She did not know it.
"It seems I've been locked up longer than I thought", she said to herself in surprise.
Then she called the darkness.