[color:"#a0a0ff"]I heard jvb responding to my whisper and slammed a wall down around my mind immediately, picturing an impeneterable barrier. Trying to protect him from the Wizard; hoping desperately that I had been fast enough to stop the Wizard from knowing there were others of my kind out there.[/color]
[color:"#00cccc"]I must have been just in time, because Wizzie frowned at me and roared loudly at me. "Who were you communicating with?" When I just looked at him, with a totally innocent expression; he grinned evilly and laughed, "So you want to do this the hard way? Well, I can make you live to regret your obstinance." With that he whispered a couple of words and a beam of light shot out of his staff. I braced myself for pain, and sure enough it wasn't anything nice that hit me, but it wasn't horrible either! Quickly deciding that playing along with him might be the safest thing to do, I let out a short scream and bowed my head as if in great pain.
"No one! I wasn't talking to anyone! How could I be, I'm in a cage here ... there's no one to talk to!" I gasped out between clenched teeth, closing my eyes as if in intense pain.
He looked puzzled for a minute, that is if I could read Trollish expression at all, and then he again whispered a couple of words which stopped the beam of light and the pain. I sagged against the bars feigning a relief from pain which I hoped looked totally sincere. He glared at me, "Maybe you don't know you were communicating - it's possible I suppose." He pointed his staff at me and said, "If you try to fool me, you'll regret it."
He glanced around at the other creatures, each one started trembling so bad when his gaze fell upon them that I wanted to tear the bars apart and tear him to little bits. I closed my eyes and concentrated on being calm, knowing he would kill some of us if I did that. He laughed again, in the way you imagine a truly sadistic creature would do when they have power over other helpless creatures.
I just stared at him, you'll pay Wizard ... When my friends get here... you'll pay.[/color]
