A Mage's Rescue

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A Mage's Rescue

Tryangle

Prologue


Clank, clank, clank.

Water continued to fall in drips inside whatever metallic prison he lived in. It was really the only thing that suggested that he still lived and wasn't already dead or in some kind of purgatory-like state.

He reached his hand out, cupping the drops until enough water was present to sip.

At first, he couldn't help gulping, so great was his thirst. But as days turned into months he grew more patient. He learned to tune out the repetitive noise of the dripping while ignoring the eerie silence about. He had seen nobody since he awoke in this tube, tank, he couldn't know for sure.

No contact. No voices.

His body was weak and drained. Meditation had helped to overcome some of his hunger, and even then he rationed his remaining food items to such meager helpings that it hardly seemed worth it. His hope, for the time being, outweighed his despair.

At one end of his 'cell' there was the tiniest crack which seemed to open to some kind of shaft. Early on he attempted to call out and listen to voices, but realized there wasn't any response or any seeming way to open it for escape. His tools, lost to the sandstorm... or that Faceless Man. He shrugged. That section soon became the location for bodily waste.

And not for the first time, he started to wonder if he could digest part of his clothes. Or, he shuddered, one or two of his fingers.
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