Is this a Tragedy or a Game Changer?

by Lady Silverfrost

Slight AU. I am trying to make this seem as realistic as possible and make Tolkien's characters stay in character. There are many modern girls in ME stories, but not as many that have them end up in Angband. This is my take on 2 modern girls ending up in Angband and the chaos that would happen. Even more chaos if they happened to appear during Maedhros's captivity. Torture warning.

13. Chapter 13

I know this is a super short chapter, but I just want y'all to kind of see what they are feeling internally after what just happened.

At least they didn't make us walk back to our room. Not that I liked being carried by them, I wanted to be as far away as possible, but that wasn't happening anytime soon and I just can't walk. It hurts too much. I think I'd still be crying from the residual pain if it wasn't so constant. Leila can't feel anything currently since she passed out. I thought she was going to die from shock, but she was still breathing after she fell out of her chair.

I don't know what to feel. I think my emotions used to be so comprehensive, but now it seems like I just feel pain and concentrate on not making them angry with us again. But was he even angry? I can't tell from his expressions because they just aren't expressive. I mean obviously I can understand that my feet were hurt and Leila's leg broken from running away. I'm not sure why her nose was broken and the bruising over her in weird places, but maybe Tar-Mairon just hit her instead of whipping her feet like Red-eye.

I let my fingers run over the blanket I was sitting on idly allowing my fingers to catch on loose string and pull. I wonder how long we are going to be stuck in our room. I mean, I'm not inclined to leave or even move around since it hurts, but I'll be bored soon enough from doing nothing. Leila was kinda fortunate to pass out in my opinion. She can't feel pain or boredom right now. I do have to admit that I occasionally watch her chest move up and down to reassure myself she is still breathing.

I just want to be back home. I hate this place. I hate them. I don't know why we ended up here. Is this place hell. Was that flash of light us dying? I don't know what I did to deserve being trapped here with them. I want to know what happened to guy with red hair who saved me in the dungeon. Did he do something bad to be trapped here? Did I? Is he suffering right now? I wonder if I'll see him again. This place is so huge and I think we have only been in a small part of it. Not so many monsters come by our door, but when were coming back we passed quite a few of them. We passed even more alarming things too! There were giant wolves and other kinds of monsters! I honestly can't tell if I'm hallucinating or if Tar-Mairon spoke to a wolf. Probably in my mind. I've heard pain can make you insane. I laid back in the bed closing my eyes. Maybe tomorrow I'll wake up in a field of flowers with a different kind of life.