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Galadria · 11-09-2002, 01:32 PM

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Sefa at first was consumed with despair and lay with dry eyes on the hard little bed, staring at the ceiling for hours. Then, her natural resilience and optimism asserted themselves and she started to seach her prison. As captives will, she got to know every bit of it, and examined it ceaselessly for weaknesses. All that rewarded her efforts was a small ventilation shaft at the bottom of the wall under her bed. She began to work at this with a spoon from one of the meals that a golem would bring regularly. She hid the debris under her pillow, so that Snurll would not see it when he made one of his infrequent visits to mock her and tell her of how his researches were going.
After a couple of weeks had passed, she hurriedly ate a meal and scuttled under the cot to work on the widening hole. When she reached it, however, she was shocked to see something looking back. It was a single bright green eye! The shock and fear turned to joy, however, to hear Noemi's well-known voice hissing at her. "Sefa!" she whispered.

Galadria had lost no time in journeying to the tower, and had made camp just out of sight of the walls. Odo had wanted to shoot at the golems guarding it, but Galadria, furious but cold, forbade it. "It would just tell him that we are here," she reasoned. "Let him think that we are doing nothing. It may cause him to relax his guard."
She cast masking spells to conceal them from the golems and alarm spells. Thorough reconaissance had revealed no entrance to the tower. Snurll let himself in and out magically. Furtive digging showed the foundations to go down into the earth for quite a distance. Noemi reported this to her sister sadly, but was puzzled to hear, "No difficulty, there" in response. That night, she bade the others to gather at the wall, and, as they guarded her, seemed to go into a trance.

11-09-2002, 01:32 PM	#112
Galadria 20th Level Warrior Join Date: November 3, 2001 Location: Texas Age: 54 Posts: 2,830	Here is some more, newly expanded. [img]smile.gif[/img] Sefa at first was consumed with despair and lay with dry eyes on the hard little bed, staring at the ceiling for hours. Then, her natural resilience and optimism asserted themselves and she started to seach her prison. As captives will, she got to know every bit of it, and examined it ceaselessly for weaknesses. All that rewarded her efforts was a small ventilation shaft at the bottom of the wall under her bed. She began to work at this with a spoon from one of the meals that a golem would bring regularly. She hid the debris under her pillow, so that Snurll would not see it when he made one of his infrequent visits to mock her and tell her of how his researches were going. After a couple of weeks had passed, she hurriedly ate a meal and scuttled under the cot to work on the widening hole. When she reached it, however, she was shocked to see something looking back. It was a single bright green eye! The shock and fear turned to joy, however, to hear Noemi's well-known voice hissing at her. "Sefa!" she whispered. Galadria had lost no time in journeying to the tower, and had made camp just out of sight of the walls. Odo had wanted to shoot at the golems guarding it, but Galadria, furious but cold, forbade it. "It would just tell him that we are here," she reasoned. "Let him think that we are doing nothing. It may cause him to relax his guard." She cast masking spells to conceal them from the golems and alarm spells. Thorough reconaissance had revealed no entrance to the tower. Snurll let himself in and out magically. Furtive digging showed the foundations to go down into the earth for quite a distance. Noemi reported this to her sister sadly, but was puzzled to hear, "No difficulty, there" in response. That night, she bade the others to gather at the wall, and, as they guarded her, seemed to go into a trance.