Althel's POV
I was crying, not much had changed in that respect, I had lost count of how many times I had cried in the last three weeks, I was huddled on my bedroll in a dark corner of the mine where I had made my home, knees to my chest, and my head resting on my knees to quite the sobs. a single candle gave me light.
" He won't leave me here." I said to myself, and began to wipe away the tears (somewhat unsuccessfully) "Hes going to find out what his father did, and then he will come and rescue me." I knew it was true, It had to be, Kyle wouldn't leave me here to rot, not for something I hadn't even done, I hadn't stolen those coins, his father had set me up, to separate us.
"And when he finds out he will come and take me away, maybe we can go to High Rock or Elsweyr like we talked about." The memory made me smile and the tears stoped in their tracks. "He will come for me" I said with certainty.
"Hahahahaha." I looked up from my knees to source of the laughter, an old Breton in rags "He will come for me" he said in a mocking sing-song voice "Give me a brake, your lover has forgotten about you elf" he said with a cruel smile " He doesn't care, that your in here, and hes not coming to rescue you."
"Your wrong!" I hadn't realized that I had stood but I found myself an inch from this Breton's face screaming at him " You don't know him, he'll come for me, he loves me, he said so!" My shouting had begun to draw a crowd of prisoners, but I didn't care, my fury at this man was blinding me to anything else.
The Breton just laughed " OK, say your right, say he does love you, and hes somehow found out that you were taken from him, Does he even know where you are?" I was silent, I had no answer to the question , Kyle's father didn't even know where I was, so how could he? I fell to my knees and held myself in my arms. he couldn't know where I was. " You see, Bosmer he's not coming to save you, no one is, you'll never see the sun again, no one escapes Cidhna Mine." he added. A fresh wave of tears took me.
" I'm never getting out of here"
"Uraccen That's enough!" Someone called out.
"Madanach I ..." Uraccen began
"This women has done naught to you and yet you torment her, That is not what we do." I looked up from the floor and through the tears. Madanach was another Breton, older then Uracenn yet built nearly twice as strong, He walked over to me and knelt beside me . " I am sorry you have to be here, and even sorrier that I have to say this." he told me with sadness in his eyes "But Uraccen is right, no one is coming to save you" He gestured towards the other Prisoners "Only we can help each other survive, we watch out for one and other, the only Kin any of us have left." he said with a smile. "And you could be one of us, If you wished" The tears had stopped falling, I was unsure when. I had never had Kin before, I had never known my father and mother, I had been raised in an orphanage. but i was still uneasy and Madanach sensed it " Oh and Uraccen was wrong about one thing ... I may have a way out of this mine, and when the moment is right we can take the fight to those who wrongly imprisoned us. Will you join us? "
That was it, that was all I needed to hear, a chance to be free one again, a chance to run through the forests, and to swim through the lakes and rivers, a chance to take in the wild green and frozen white lands of Skyrim, or be confined in this mine forever.
"Yes ... Oh Gods yes!"
Authors Note: OHHHHH SHIT that right i'm back now that university is over for summer I can work on this fic again, and its been calling me back for a while just a short chapter to get back into the swing of things. Remember now comments welcome both good and bad as its the only way I can improve.
p.s C. I think you know my game plan.