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Missing Excerpt 7
Teyla stumbled through black murky puddles as she was led violently through the remains of the Athosians village and into the vast forest beyond. Darkness had conquered the light and the last few splinters of pink horizon were flittering away over the great white mountains of New Athos. The tree branches sliced mercilessly at her face as she was dragged like some malevolent animal by the dark beast Kane, whose hungry eyes would burn through the Athosian's clothes, as he sinfully imagined all that was beneath.
As the darkness finally engulfed them fully, she only hoped if this was to be her demise that she would find the leader of the Bolo Kai, Zor, had been telling her the truth, and that her people still lived to see another day.
The chains rubbed hatefully away at her tender wrists, turning soft tanned skin to flayed scorched flesh as she winced silently in almost unbearable agony.
Suddenly, Kane stopped amidst some strangely bent trees that seemed to gateway a dark tunnel hidden beneath the earth. Teyla thought it was extremely well made, camoflauged there amidst the brush and foliage.
The momentary relief of her relentless bonds was only just, and soon she was being pulled further and further into the pitch blackness of the desolate cavern below.
Moments after venturing in, small beams of light emitted from either side of the dark tunnel from long, primitive torches held every few meters along the otherwise barren walls of dirt and wood.
She tried to focus her eyes against the wavering flame lit shadows and soon she began to see the walls on her right had small cells carved into them and as she passed by hurriedly pulled by the beast, she desperatley tried to slow herself and squint furiously at each cells inhabitants.
The shadowed faces began to press themselves against the metal bars restraining them and soon many arms stretched out, grabbing and grasping towards her; their anguished cries and shouts of "Teyla!" echoing eerily down the endless tunnel filling her heart with sadness and her mind with relief as tears rolled continually down her cheeks.
Once they were far enough away that the hushed cries of her people had died somewhere in the lifeless air, Kane stopped affront a cell completely isolated from the others and he easily unlocked its filthy gate. He turned and stared at her hard for a moment before gesturing with his head for her to enter.
She did so, her eyes never leaving his, even as he clanged the gate shut behind her as the metal bars remained there, the only thing standing between them.
"Zor cannot protect you in here, warrior," he said fiercely as his eyes trailed up and down her body.
"I need no protection," she said calmly, her tone of voice as even as ever.
He pressed himself up against the bars and reached out with his massively clawed hand that missed her exposed neck by merely inches and he smiled cruelly before he spoke.
"I will return woman, and when I do, your defiance will mean nothing, for I will have you and you will know horrors of which you have never even dreamed..."
He drew back his outstreched hand and wrapped it tightly around the metal bar, the coloring of his knuckles changing with his intense grip as his eyes continued to scour her body and face.
Then he smiled once before leaving her there, alone in the dark with shaky breath, with no hope or illusions of her own rescue, only the passing relief that her people were still alive for now and that they perhaps still had a fighting chance, if only Colonel Sheppard and Atlantis would arrive there in time to save them.