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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ahayford" data-source="post: 5878607" data-attributes="member: 6680745"><img src="http://i1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd444/hayforda/veil.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> Oh, I could do more, but consider this a test. By failure shall the weak reveal themselves. One last thing, should you decide to take my benefactors gift, escape, and ignore his generous invitation, know this. We shall not hunt you or seek retribution. Every kingsman and bounty hunter this side of Talingarde will be after you. You are forsaken by your own people and kinsmen. You have no place in this world. We can promise safety...and more then that. Much more. Power, wealth...She pauses a moment, a crooked smirk on her face as if tasting the vintage of the word on her tongue.....vengeance. Consider carefully. Be sure your “friends” do too.Her message delivered, she rises and the guards return unbidden. Immediately, her demeanor once more changes. She is again the perfect picture of grief. No! I cannot bear to leave you! Tiadora bends down to place a light kiss on Herik’s cheek. Her ice-cold lips send unpleasant shivers down his spine. Blackerly shakes his head. I’m afraid it’s time miss.She looks deep into Blackerly’s eyes. Thank you for letting me say good-bye. There’s no need to search my dearest. You are such a dear friend for letting me see him one last time. Blackerly mechanically replies. Such a dear friend...  Then the watch sergeant seems to snap out of it and bows politely. A pleasure madam. She leaves unveiled. Her eyes meet Herik’s one last time, briefly showing him a wicked smile.The words echo in Herik’s head. Three days...Don’t disappoint me dearest.Blackerly escorts Tiadora out of the interrogation room, leaving the re-incarceration of Herik to his guardsmen. As before, the six guardsmen drag Herik through the guard room and into the cellblock. One of the guardsmen takes the keyring by the door, and uses it to open the cellblock, leaving little opportunity for Herik to palm it. Besides, Tiadora’s veil is already neatly tucked away in his shirt.The guards quickly chain Herik back to his spot in the cell, then file out of the room. Not long after, a single guard leads a pair of servants into the cellblock. One carries a bucket and ladle and one a pot of some kind of gruel. They each get two ladles of gruel and water....except that one.He points to Rath. He gets water only. Blackerly’s orders.The first servant, a brunette waif of a girl, fills her bucket at the trough carefully provides each prisoner with as much as they can drink. The second servant, an older gentleman, feeds two ladles of cold, tasteless grain mush as best he can. He seems to nod an apology to Rath as he skips over the half-orc and moves on to the next prisoner.Soon, dinner is over. The servants exit the cell and the guard closes and locks the door behind them. They then move on to the heavily reinforced door at the end of the cellblock. The remainder of the food and water bucket are pushed through a smaller door at the bottom of the reinforced door. The guard then takes his charges and exits the cell block, once again leaving the prisoners alone and in the dark.</blockquote>

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