I was trapped in the tower for two more days and nights. Occasionally Saruman would come back and mock me but for the most part I was completely on my own. If I heard any noise, I would race from wherever I was to the window to see if it was Legolas coming to save me. Each time I would get my hopes up and each time they would be dashed.
In the very early hours of the morning on the third day I was sitting in what I then had resigned myself to thinking was 'my' room, I was brought out of my thoughts with a bang when Saruman burst through the doorway. His eyes were flashing and he was panting.
"It is time." He yanked me to my feet and half guided me, half dragged me down a spiral staircase in to a room that was below mine.
"Legolas is here?" I asked frantically. Saruman ignored me, pacing across the room pulling across drapes and lighting candles to make the room appear sinister and mysterious. I followed him across the room, my anxiousness to know what was going on was overriding my fear of Saruman. "What is happening?!" I shouted in frustration.
Saruman let out an angry bellow and slapped me across my cheek so hard my head snapped back and the sound the hit made echoed through the hall.
"Silence. You will distract me!" he looked down at his staff and then back at me. I was holding my face trying to numb the sting that was pulsating through my face. He raised the staff in the air and pointed it at me. A burst of energy hit me and I went soaring through the air and slammed against the cold stone wall. With another point of his staff chains shot out off the wall next to me and wrapped themselves in a zig zag across my throat, chest and stomach, pinning me to the wall.
"That should hold you." he said quietly. I could hear voices and footsteps coming towards the door, getting louder and louder. "Well Idril it looks as though you can be happy about one thing he does love you after all".
My heart beat quickened and I thought it might burst out of my chest.
"However it will be the death of him." He cackled softly and turned away from me to face the door and to meet my rescuers.