When he was shoved into the lift, he then began counting the seconds it took him to rise. He growled in pain when he was poked and almost lost count. It may have cost him a jab or two with that blade, but it also let him count his paces. The cave is silent and empty, its darkness eerie and enveloping.īorthan stepped slowly and purposefully as he was dragged forward. Not that there are any prisoners aside him, yet. To his left, beside the door, is a small wooden bucket that stinks of waste. A window with three bars is set into the door, and looking outside reveals some of the outpost interior, built into the wall of the large cavern, and the second wooden walkway he was led across. Behind him is a metal door, with no handle on the inside. It's damp inside, and some small white bioluminescent mushrooms are growing in the corners, providing roughly as much light as a candle. Removing the blindfold reveals that Borthan is in a smaller cave. "You can take off your blindfold now, meat," a voice snarls in unfriendly Elvish, followed by a metal door slamming shut and locking behind him. Into a dank, stinking hole in the wall he is thrown. A drow blade jabs him in the back to keep him moving. As he crosses the first, Borthan can feel flecks of water hitting his face, the sound of the waterfall right beside him to his right. The snarling grunts of quaggoths doing heavy lifting greets him at the top. The hand-operated lift leaves him with a swaying sense of weightlessness as it drags him up away from the solid ground below, even as thousands of tons of ground lie above. The creaking of rope and pulleys from above is followed by the drow captors shoving him unceremoniously into some kind of life, which begins to rise. Through many years as a guide and hunter in the dark, size of a cavern was something Borthan had some sense of, even with sight beyond him. Though he had been shackled and blindfolded, he could hear the sound of a waterfall, its peaceful white noise drowning out the sound of his crunching footsteps on the gravelly floor of a massive cavern. It was yesterday that Borthan was dragged through the dark by his captors, to a nearby drow outpost.
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