[Eladain Moruviel]

Well," Ihwesta said. "What should we do then?" "You should come with me,” Gilbereth whirled around just in time to be struck across the head. The next thing Gil knew, they were all bound and being marched towards the tower. “oh now isn’t this great” he mumbled to himself “we walked right into a trap!” “ey, you! Shut yer yappin!” came the harsh voice of a goblin, and he was again struck across the face. This time he staggered to his feet and was able to continue walking.

After a few minutes of walking, they reached the tower gates. “Only two guards?” Gil wondered, but then realized that this place was made to keep people in, not out.upon entering the tower, all were brought into a line in front of Rhtalk; they all stood until they were kicked to the ground hard by the Goblins behind them. They laughed and snarled at the Elves.

“Silence!” Bellowed Rhtalk, his voice ricocheted off the icy walls and the goblins were silent immediately. “Now,” he said walking in front of them looking at each in turn. Inspecting them as if they were meat. “Looks like we have found some help….”
“Help, we will never help you!” Spat Taurëwen. Rhtalk sent a stare at her, and Ceros saw a Goblin grab her hair from the back. He whispered something into her ear, but Ceros was unable to hear properly.
“As I was saying, you will help us. You, you, you and you,” he said pointing to Eruwen, Ihwesta, Taurëwen and Arië, “You will help us with building. The rest will be drafted his the army.” “’ey, what

‘bout this one?” Said a Goblin kicking Reyn forward.
“Ah yes, well we shall see….”
“For now he will go to the cages with the others, it is nearing the height of the sun and you were lucky you weren’t scorched trying to get them here!” Rhtalk said to the Goblins stood behind them, he then walked away.

With that they were all pushed forward and out the doors of the tower. They were then marched toward the cages. When they reached these poor excuses for living quarters, they were shoved roughly to the ground and the doors were locked behind them.

The first few days were grueling, up before daylight (and of that there was little enough during the day) and spending the rest of the day drilling or working on weapons. There was little time for talk, and most of the time there was no one to talk to anyway.

On the sixth day as Gil was trudging back to his “quarters” he saw Reynion being savagely pushed along by two of the goblin overseers. When he finally fell to the ground, they started kicking him mercilessly. Gil had had enough, he went into a rage, grabbed a large piece of scrap metal and flew at Reyn’s attackers.The rage gave his muscles added strength as he attacked. They were caught off guard, and he killed them before they knew what had happened.

Gil helped Reyn to his feet. “you alright?” he whispered “fine came the weak reply. So together they slowly walked toward the cages. “things will go badly for me when they find those two” Gil thought darkly, but he said nothing of the incident to the others.

[ September 29, 2003: Message edited by: Eladain Moruviel ]