Elizabeth found herself being dragged down some icy tunnels. "Where are you taking me, you said you wanted to talk?"
"And we will all in good time."
She eventually found herself facing the alcove Torlian had obviously escaped from. "This was your prison cell?"
"Fancy trying it out?" Spoke Torlian.
She wrapped herself up, finding it rather colder at her present location. She'd gotten used to the fire.
"Why have you bought me here?"
"Like I said so we can talk in private, without any interruptions from your people"
"We would've been happy to negotiate terms rather then kidnapping me down here."
"Maybe, but I don't want to jeopardise any opportunity of freeing my people. Especially after the amount of time we've been cooped up here."
"With the stunt you just pulled, you probably have. My people won't tolerate this kind of action, you're playing with fire."
He laughed at the statement. "Sounds like I picked someone important. It doesn't matter, your people won't know where to start looking for you."
Elizabeth followed his finger as he pointed to the ceiling. "We're underground."
"That's right, the perfect place to hide."
He was probably right, they wouldn't know where to look. But she knew darn well they wouldn't stop trying.
She let the matter drop for now and changed the subject. "How did you do that? Transport us like that."
"I used this little device," he waved the black object in his hand, the item they thought was a weapon, "knew it would come in handy, I can project a reflection of myself as you saw above."
He showed her by standing in two places at once, his original form in front of her and a shadow of him behind her.
The original spoke. "Which of me would you say is the original?"
Confusion etched across her face and nodded at the man in front of her and watched as he disappeared.
She stumbled a little when she was pushed from behind but regained her balance.
"Wrong, I can transport my true form into the projection and become whole again as you just witnessed."
"That's what I did above, my true form was underground, whilst my double if you like was above. Once I knew which of you was more valuable as a hostage, I made my move. Not only can this device do all that but also…" he tapped another switch and he was back to where he started. "Rebound back to my original location and whoever is in contact with me at the same time is transported to, but they cannot rebound because they didn't have a projection setting.
"It can do other things too, but best not give all its secrets away."
Amazement was written all over Elizabeth's face. Had she not seen it with her own eyes she wouldn't have believed it. "I take it the sphere was your doing as well?"
The man started to laugh. "That was simply a case of mind over matter."
"So why me?"
"If you knew the crimes we've committed you wouldn't have helped us. But now I have you, your friends won't have any choice but to help if they want to get you back."
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