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Hanging over the edge of my cage, I watched what Kiya did for the baby Unicorn with tears in my eyes. Then she called up to me, "That's done - pull me up, will you? And I hope that rope won't be attached to your belt, right? Remember what happened last time?"
Okay, I so did not want to remember the losing my pants scene when I tried to let her use me as a ladder that time. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/suspicion.gif" alt="" /> I whispered back down to her, "no, let me come down - I need to break the locks on the other cages." I ran to grab my backpack and the sword that I had picked out and running to the edge of my cage I jumped down lightly to the floor below.
Walking to the gate to the the pen we were in, I tested it by pushing on it to see how strong it was. It just swung open. I whispered bitterly back to Kiya, "I guess they weren't worried about that poor baby escaping in the condition they put it in." I saw my anger reflected in her eyes too, these people would pay and pay dearly for the harm thay had done to innocence.
Walking over to stand underneath the hooded woman's cage, I could see a weird glow emanating from the bars of the cage itself. I called up to her softly, "Can you break free yourself? Or do I need to come up and break the lock?"
She whispered back, "I cannot even touch them! The Wizard has placed a spell on them that burns me whenever I try." I could sense despair in her voice, "I don't know if you will be able to touch them either." A small sob and she went on, "You must free the others, I will pay for what I am forever it seems."
Again, my heart was breaking, I felt or sensed that she thought herself evil and that just wasn't so. Not with the caring she had already shown to me and Featherwing. "I won't leave you, so you'd better help us save you. I undid the rope from my waist again, "You'll have to catch this." I started tossing the end of the rope up to her. I tried about a dozen times with no luck, I couldn't get it to toss
into the cage. I stopped and looked around for something to use and spied the bucket Featherwing had used for water. Quickly tying it to the end of the rope I tried tossing it one more time and it worked! [/color]
