The Black Citadel
You take out some bread and water from your backpack that you found in the storeroom earlier. You notice Pand trying, though awkwardly, to get up and have a closer look. His eyes gleam and he struggles to find words, when he comes as close as his chains allow, to see what you have.
"I'm starving, please friend may the gods bless your soul."
You give Pand what bread and water you can spare through the hatch and he scoffs down everything as fast as he can. After he's finished he thanks you again and asks,
"My friend, who are you, why have you come here?"
You give your name and a little about yourself and your two friends your trying to find.
"Why only this morning a group of guards came and opened up a lot of these cells. I could hear them jiggling their keys. And the footsteps, I could hear them too. Must have been about thirty prisoners released from their cells, but I don't know where they took them. The slave pits or even the slave market, so the rumors say. I was taken when I was out one night collecting wood for the fire at the edge of Darkwood. My, my family probably thinks I'm long dead by now. Oh, oh, my loved ones."
Pand puts his hands over his eyes and he begins to cry.
You give him some final words and hope you can come back at a later time and release him if you can. You close the hatch. So about thirty prisoners were released this morning? If Zirder or Vandil were with them, where were they taken to? You think to yourself.
"I'm starving, please friend may the gods bless your soul."
You give Pand what bread and water you can spare through the hatch and he scoffs down everything as fast as he can. After he's finished he thanks you again and asks,
"My friend, who are you, why have you come here?"
You give your name and a little about yourself and your two friends your trying to find.
"Why only this morning a group of guards came and opened up a lot of these cells. I could hear them jiggling their keys. And the footsteps, I could hear them too. Must have been about thirty prisoners released from their cells, but I don't know where they took them. The slave pits or even the slave market, so the rumors say. I was taken when I was out one night collecting wood for the fire at the edge of Darkwood. My, my family probably thinks I'm long dead by now. Oh, oh, my loved ones."
Pand puts his hands over his eyes and he begins to cry.
You give him some final words and hope you can come back at a later time and release him if you can. You close the hatch. So about thirty prisoners were released this morning? If Zirder or Vandil were with them, where were they taken to? You think to yourself.