I'm on a role! *does a little dance* I don't know how long this is going to go on, so just...read and enjoy, 'cause if i go into another ff.n denial, you have wait another year for the next chapter, which would suck. then again, i could just keep going and going like the energizer rabbit until you all finally tell me to shut up. well...anywho, here's ch. 5. Enjoy!
~Libz~

Broken Sky fic
Ch. 5



Latoya woke to find herself on a dirt floor in a very small dirt shack. there where no windows, and she could see no door. the only light came from a candle hanging very far above her head. none of these where half as frighting as the last fact. she was alone.
The last time Latoya had been left alone, she had several bullet wounds to the chest, and of course, she was dying. That had been Aurin's doing, now, Latoya assumed, this must be her doing as well.
But would Aurin be stupid enough to leave her in a pit, rather then just kill her? Latoya was not bleeding, in fact, except for a minor bump on the head, she seemed just fine.
"Hello? Is anyone here? Who are you, and why have you brought me here?" she shouted into the space. nothing happened, so she shouted again...and again. still no one came. Latoya, now half scared, began to wonder if she would ever get out of this place. But was she in a place at all? was she mearly trpped inside her mind? completly lost to the world, at last. she started to shake. would she never again see Baden, or her father, or...even Aurin?
Latoya despratly wanted to cry, there was nothing she wanted more, she was trapped, in the dark pit of her own mind, to be branded forever as one gone-a light shone from overhead.
"Lady? Are you there?" asked a smalll voice from abov with a giggle. "of course you are. I can see you!" Latoya saw the small figure of a girl-child, and for a moment thought it was herself, appering as a child, but the hair on this girl was brown, while her own was black. this was not an illusion.
"Who are you?" cried Latoya. "Get me out!"
For a moment, nothing was heard from above, then the girl answered, "oh! your awake! it's about time! I've been waiting almost three cycles!" Latoya was confused. to hear a Dominion child speak like one raised in Kirin Taq was rare indeed.
"Are you coming?" asked the girl from above. Latoya looked around and saw that a rope had been droped for her to climb out with. She stood, and went to climb, but reilized she still had her sister's gown on.
the girl seemed to have read her mind. "your wearing a dress! I shall have Hochi come to get you." the door where the girl had been standing closed, and the room was yet again dark, even the candle on what Latoya now reconized as the doorframe had gone out. Latoya waited immpatiently, her fear gone. A little girl and her friend "Hochi" she could deal with, but not being encased for eternity in her own mind.
A few moments later the door above opened again, and this time the girl had a friend. a very, very...very large friend, who was quickly coming down the rope towards her. Latoya blinked at him. This was definitly not what she had been expecting.
When the man reached the ground next to her, she saw hhe had a bundle of ropes. She quickly shook her head. "No. you can't use those on me!" she poited to the ropes, but Hochi smiled in a way that irked her, and began to tie her hands behind her back. Latoya kept up her protests, but was no match for a man of that size. When she was bound and gagged, with his own kerchief, it seemed her protests where irking him as well as his to her, he tied her to his waist and began to climb the rope.
When they where almost at the top, Latoya still voice muffled shricks of protest, a voice not much unlike the girls called, "Hey Hoch, ya think you're getting kinda big for this? Maybe you should cut out on them dounuts, huh?" Latoya heard the man growl and the girl giggle helplessly.
"GERIDI!"
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Now, wasen't that fun?
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