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"You killed him! You killed Grady!" Fitz yelled when they appeared back in the mysteriously familiar bunker like hideout, Moren glared at him before he grabbed Fitz by the collar of his shirt and dragged him down the hall "And you are questioning me?! A few days in solitude should make you more loyal!" he said harshly as they rounded a corner that looked freshly made and then it finally hit Fitz why this place seemed so familiar...he had a scar on his chest to remind him of this place every day.

"We are in Exile!" Fitz gasped as Morens grip tightened and he gave an evil smile "Wow you finally figured that out? I never hid that fact!" he said laughing. Fitz was still in shock "But...But the dwarven guards! And you can't get into this place without..." Moren slapped him "Magsidian?" he answered holding up the crest pin that held his cape up, it was a unique black with etchings all over it "As for the guards, I convinced them to join me! I can be very persuasive as you know!" Moren said as he laughed again. He grabbed Fitz and shoved him into an empty cell and then locked the door "You never planned to help Sophie love me did you?!" Fitz snarled and Moren scoffed "You are really slow you know that right? Of course I wasn't going to help you! You're pathetic Fitz! PATHETIC!" he yelled back and then walked down the hall and out of sight.

Fitz sighed and slid down to sit against the door, he buried his head in his hands "What have I done?!" he said to himself and started crying. It could have been ten minutes or ten hours he wasn't sure but eventually he heard the voice "Fitz? Fitzroy Vacker?" a soft male voice spoke out of the darkness. Fitz looked up and realized the voice was coming from the cell next to his, he got up and pressed his face against the small barred window "Hello? Who is that?!" Fitz yelled and the man chuckled softly. Fitz was sure he recognized the voice but he didn't have to wonder for long because the man soon spoke again.

"It's me, Councilor Terik."

Fitz gasped and thought that he had heard him wrong "Terik?! But...Moren killed you!" Fitz said and he heard the councilor sigh heavily "Almost and the way he treats people here I'm starting to wish that he did! He crashed a wave on me and knocked me unconscious when I awoke I was being dragged through here by our own guards and I've been locked up here ever since." Terik explained and Fitz could hear his prosthetic leg clinking from the damage it suffered in Gildingham "But...why would he keep you alive?! He killed Bronte why keep you alive?!" Fitz asked but then he realized what he said when he heard Terik gasp "Bronte...is dead?" he asked softly and his voice cracked. Fitz sighed and explained what Bronte had told them about his infection with the plague and Terik didn't make a sound for a long time before he finally spoke "Goodbye my old friend." he muttered softly.

After a short gap of silence Terik spoke again "How did you wind up here Fitz?" he asked and Fitz wanted to lie and tell him that he was captured but what was the point? "I...I had joined Moren Slade because he said that he would help Sophie love me as I love her." he explained and he could practically feel Terik shaking his head "Fitz...love can't be won! Love is simply a part of us that can't be fought nor should it be. Miss Foster did not love you, then that is simply how it is. You shall find another person to love and they will love you just the same. Always remember that Fitz." Terik said and Fitz listened with every word and then started crying again at what he had gotten himself into.

Soon after Fitz pulled himself together and approached the door again "Councilor Terik?" he asked to see if he was asleep "It's just Terik son, no need for titles in a horror show like this place." the man said and Fitz nodded "I...I didn't know...I'm so sorry! For everything! This is all my fault, if I had just told the Council that Moren was still alive then none of this would have ever happened! So many people would still be alive and we wouldn't be locked up in Exile." Fitz said through tears and he tried to think of more things to say but Terik only chuckled "Don't be Fitz. Yes you have made a mistake but it's whether or not we choose to correct it that defines who we truly are." he explained to the young Telepath.

After that they stopped talking for who knows how long, Exile seemed to be a place where time did not exist and Fitz felt like he was going insane as he huddled into a ball on his hard cot like bed. He kept looking at the door thinking that his friends were going to come and rescue him and Terik but then he kept remembering that he had betrayed them. No one would be coming for him anymore, he was alone in the center of the Earth without any hopes of escaping.

It was with that thought that Fitz realized something, he ran to the door "Terik?! Terik?!" he whispered harshly and he heard Terik mumble a response, he had been sleeping "How long have you been here?!" he asked as his mind raced with an adrenaline of new found hope. After a few minutes he thought that Terik had fallen back asleep but then he heard "Four days, thirteen hours, and sixteen minutes why?" he asked as Fitz heard him approach his door "That means you were here when Keefe escaped! How did he get out of here?!" Fitz asked and after a long time of silence he thought that Terik didn't know before he heard a voice that was NOT Teriks.

"I'm right here Fitz, I never escaped."

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