The Winglies of Hellena
Chapter Nine: Descent Into Madness
Disclaimer: You know the Characters from LoD aren't mine, but all the others are. No stealy. .
Am I awake? Lloyd thought in confusion. He blinked slightly, or at least he thought the blinked - there was no change in the darkness. The back of his head throbbed, and there was a slight pain on his nose from the clamp preventing him from breathing from his nose. His mouth was dry from breathing out of it. The silence was deafening. He couldn't hear, see, or smell. His arms were outstretched painfully, and as he struggled to his feet somewhat, he pondered at his inability to hear the scuffing of his feet on the floor.
Strange... Lloyd cleared his throat, yet stopped almost in mid-cough when he still failed to hear anything. He tried to speak, "Hello?" but although his lips formed the words and he felt his voice speaking, he could not hear what he said. I... I can't hear? Oh... Wait... Sensory deprivation... he realized. So they've finally shut me away in here, have they? How long will this last? His thoughts were not much comfort, so to pass the time he simply closed his eyes and started remembering songs and stories, reliving memories to ward off the panic. But how long could he keep it up?
I can't take this much longer... Lloyd thought to himself. It had been two days since he had been shut in here - wherever 'here' was. He thrashed and pulled against the shackles that pinned his wrists to the walls. His mouth was as dry as chalk, and his stomach felt pinched. It was hard to feel his arms because they had gone numb. In desperation, he started screaming, hoping that he could find comfort in his own voice - yet he could not hear himself. Maybe the noise would attract guards and they would come in here and hit him or beat him or something. Anything would feel wonderful right now, because truthfully he wasn't feeling much at all.
His body thrashed and bucked as he struggled to get out of the shackles, screaming out, silent to his own ears. A sudden sharp pain let him know he had dislocated his shoulder. Probably wrenched his arm right out of the socket. Yet he didn't stop there. He continued thrashing and screaming, the darkness and the silence closing in on his battered mind like eager predators advancing on their helpless, trapped prey. He didn't stop screaming until he finally passed out.
Upon hearing the abrupt ending to the screams, Lily turned and strode quickly down the hall. She had made up her mind. She would no longer stand by and watch while any more of these people were treated so horribly. She had heard Dart and his newlywed wife, Shana, lived in the town of Seles. She would take a sick day and go there to tell them what was going on. They ended off on equal ground with Lloyd when he supposedly died, didn't they? In any case, she just couldn't believe the saviors of Endiness would just leave him to suffer like this, or any of the Winglies for that matter. Her quick strides took her outside of Hellena after she told the Boss she was going home because she wasn't feeling well. She would have a long walk ahead of her, but that wouldn't stop her from finally doing something right.