As I walked behind him, there was silence. No words were exchanged, not even a glance to see if i was even behind him as it was he almost knew I was following him. It was not like I had any other choice, did I? As we walked down the streets that had a slight rain, I noticed something eerie of the place. There was no one in sight. Tall buildings and many levels, but this area seemed to be abandoned, or even possibly forgotten among the people that lived here. It gave me a feeling that I could not describe even to myself, but I quickly let that thought out of my mind and another one in. One question kept coming back, where were we going?
The temptation of asking him rose as we got further away from the tower we were once in, but I didn't bother since it's not like he could understand me anyways. After a few minutes of walking in the cold rain I began to shiver and teeth chattering a bit. The light mist and cold weather was not good on one and he must have noticed since he said something after a few times of me sneezing, possibly a 'bless you' or even something out of annoyance. Regardless of that he did slow down to my pace as we approached a smaller building with a black door on it.
He put his hand on my shoulder and as he did so, I was expecting a warm sensation as I needed it very much. Instead it was cold, brutal, and lifeless. I looked up at him as I wondered what he was going to do next as we stood there getting colder. He raised his hand and my instinct was to flinch, but all he did was knock quickly twice, knock again three times slowly, then pull on a string that was hanging by the door as a quiet chime was heard after he pulled it. I looked back up to him again, only noticing that he was still looking at the door. I took my gaze off of him and looked at the door to see what he was seeing. Soon, I noticed on the top there was a small slider to peek out of the door and speak from it. As soon as I saw it it opened only partially, yellow bright eyes peering through.
They spoke to one another, then the bright eyes looked down at me and paused for a moment before looking back up to the pierced man, obviously asking who I was and why was I here. As they exchanged words only horrible images of what was going to happen to me came through. Torture, mutilation, slavery, and everything you can think of began racing within my mind, along with my heart. As I began to think about running away, the hand on my shoulder gave a slightly tighter grip. Was it to reassure me that everything was going to be fine? I held onto my scarf tightly as the slider closed and I heard a loud mechanism from behind the door, hopefully the deadbolt.
I looked at the door open into a pitch black room, the walls covered in boxes, cages, everything! There were a few lanterns here and there but gave off a faint, other worldly purple light that matched a larger one in the center. I stepped back, but the same hand on my shoulder quickly shifted to my back and nudged me inside. I looked back up to him and meet the eyes of a mad man, possibly the last eyes I will ever see.
He walked in with me to lead me to a chair that was in front of the purple flame, or so I thought it was. There was some sort of purple haze but no flame coming out of a long cauldron that had someone sitting on the other side of it. He sat me down and patted my shoulder slightly and walked out, leaving me and this strange... Thing. Now, I was just in the room with it and not knowing what could happen to me, I held on tightly to the side of the chair only to hear him say something to me. A few minutes of just nonsense coming out of his mouth, laughter in between and it throwing various items into the mixture, I couldn't take it anymore.
Fed up I raised my voice and said, "Stop talking to me, I don't understand anything what you are saying! Just let me go!" As I said those words a laugh came immediately afterwards, soon the smoke cleared from upwards and dropped to the ground, giving the room the appearance as if we were sitting on top of a storm cloud. I looked up only to see a hooded man with a large grin, eyes hidden within the shadows, and something that looked like stitched on the side of his mouth.
"I was wondering when you were going to speak."
