Ugh, what a night--computer acting up-took forever to fix!! I hope this chapter won't disappoint.
Chapter 38
The five of them were tossed into a large cell and left alone. "Damn the luck--that bastard is never going to let us leave here alive," Gimli growled.
Legolas went to the cell door. "So we better leave," he said casually.
The other four stared at him in puzzlement. "How do you expect us to leave? We're locked in a cell, crazy elf!!" Gimli said.
Legolas peered up and down the corridor. "No guards, good--that makes it easier," he muttered. He pulled a piece of wire out of his hair and reached through the bars.
"What are you doing?" Kai asked.
"Using this piece of wire to pick the lock," Legolas said as if it were obvious.
"Where did you learn how to do that?" Aragorn demanded.
"From Pippin," Legolas said. "Quiet now, I need to listen."
Everyone shut up as Legolas jiggled the wire around in the lock. Finally there was a soft click and the door popped open.
"Now we can go, there's a storage room on the left. Our weapons are there," Legolas said and walked out of the cell.
"Legolas, how do you know all this?" Aragorn asked as they walked. They rounded a corner to more cells. There were thirty cells and each had five centaurs in it.
"Zandria told me," Legolas said.
"Whose Zandria?" Aragorn asked.
"I am," a female centaur said from a cell.
"Meet Tai's apprentice. Evidently when Tai linked with me it made his apprentice able to do the same. The reason there aren't any guards here now is because there's five hundred centaurs outside their gate. When we were captured Tai and the chieftain set this up. They figured we'd get arrested because of the hate felt here for non-humans. We are to attack from the inside and open the front gate," Legolas said. He pointed to a key hanging on the wall. "That opens the cells and the storeroom."
"So through the link the shaman knew you could pick the locks!! They used us!!!" Gimli said.
"In a way, but we were planning to come here anyway," Legolas shrugged.
Jaisia grabbed the key and unlocked the storeroom then began unlocking cells.
Aragorn went into the room and retrieved their weapons then began passing out weapons to the Centaurs. The room was full of them. "But where did you get the wire?" he asked.
"Off one of the forks at dinner, they had gold wire wrapped around the handles, remember?" Legolas said. He winked at Jaisia.
Everyone, including the newly freed Centaurs, laughed. "All right, oh clever one. How do we get out of here?" Aragorn asked.
"There's a door further down the hall, the centaurs were taken out that way to go to the arena," Legolas said. "Right, Zandria?"
"That's right," the apprentice said.
Once everyone had a weapon the newly formed army headed down the hall towards the other door and the final battle for freedom.
Major shock-huh? Did I explain everything clear enough? That's why Legolas was acting a bit strange--because of the telepathic link the mind link had created. Like it? R?R!!!