Chapter 10

Lurtz awoke with a headache that seemed to split his head in two. He rose slowly, his bones aching and cracking with his laboured movements. Lurtz had been unconscious for weeks, the result of a spell that hung over the cell causing extreme exhaustion to its victims, an attempt to hold even the most powerful prisoners. Lurtz fought the spell for as long as he could, but subdued in the end. But now awake, he kept trying, knowing there had to be a way out.

After painful minutes Lurtz struggled to stand, he had never felt so powerless or dirty. He gripped at the magical bars for support, their power causing the bars to vibrate under onto his suffering skin. He wandered the cell, a tiny hole in the ground only large enough to support a victim, who ideally would live out their condemned lives comatised on the dirty bed.

Lurtz fell, he collapsed under his agonised legs sending pain soaring through his body, he screamed. Lurtz lay where he fell, unwilling to move and continue regaining his mind. He felt himself slowly drift back asleep, when a sharp pain ripped through his stomach bringing him instantly alive. A pixie had flown into the cell, and thinking Lurtz was asleep had begun magically filling his stomach with nutrients to keep him alive.

Not wasting any time Lurtz chanted an ancient Elvish word causing an instant flash through the cell, the pixie screamed in fear as Lurtz began magically absorbing the life force of the attached pixie. Feeling life rush through his veins, Lurtz crawled to his feet, the pixie continued shrieking as its light continued to grow dimmer and dimmer.

Lurtz continued to absorb faster and faster, the light grew dimmer and dimmer and Lurtz began feeling stronger and stronger. Lurtz felt himself again in less than a minute, feeling alive and powerful. The pixie grew grey and withered, its lifeforce being drained heavily, and with a moan died. The deceased pixie dropped lifeless to the ground, Lurtz feeling alive and strong sat on his bed and closed his eyes. The next moment he was gone.