I was awoken the rattling of chains in a cage and I was chained to the metal bottom. I felt a bit dizzy and unfocused at first but the lightheaded feeling started to dissipate soon. The cage I was in, was moving down a wide street. It looed like a bigger city, which means I must have been out of commission for an extended period of time and traveled a considerable distance since I could't see a city anywhere before I fell unconscious.
There were 4 guards in bright silver platemail armor and 2 of those blue robed people next to the cage. They were walking down the street next to the cage. It came to my attention that the cage was not on a cart, but the cage was floating instead. I sent a radar pulse and to my surprise there was no hover module or simmilar machines below the cage. I stood up and tried moving to one side of the cage only for the chains to stop me. I wanted to test the balancing of whatever it was that was keeping the cage afloat. They were afterall using a method unknown to me. Unfortunately the shackles were preventing me from going into a corner or turning around.
Upon closer inspection it felt like the shackles weren't meant to stop me from moving physically because the material seemed rather brittle, but the energy that disperses most of my psionic power at high range was weaker around it. They had made countermeasures to something that I couldn't utilize anyways, brilliant. Then again, there is no way they could make psionic dampeners and even if they could, they wouldn't be sufficient.
The sound of the shackles notified the guards of my awakening. When they noticed I was awake they said something I didn't understand. Although the people paid no mind to me before, they now kept their mouths shut and were generally more . What did that guard say? What is so bad about me being Awake?
I had a feeling that patiently waiting would yet yield more answers than leaving the cage would at the moment, even though they were appeareantly making it harder for me to learn anything on purpose. Maybe not immideately, but it felt like in the long run I would gain much more from that. So I waited and kept an eye open for my surroundings.
The road the cage was floating above was made with cobblestone but when looking at the people, it gave me the impression that covering it in cobblstone must have been a high cost project, which led me to assume that this was a bigger city like a capital or a trading hub, something that was worth the effort and money.
The buildings looked surprisingly advanced compared to other aspects of this society, specifically clothes. Most of the buildings were half-timbered houses, with only a few exceptions built from stone. As we moved further down the street, a castle or a fort came into my view. I couldn't be sure about the size yet. As we got closer to the castle the amount of half-timbered houses decreased and so did the amount of those made from plain stone. In their stead now stood scarcely built large mansions. We had probably reached the part of the city where the nobles live.
I at that point guessed, that one such noble had 'commissioned' my capture. Did they think I would make a good pet or what? Only a short while later I was brought into a large building. The robed people entered the building while the guards brought me around the building to a back entry.
Before the back entrance there was some kind of outside storage area which I was placed in. Once the cage was in position, it started lowering to the ground, after one of the guards had remove something from the side of the cage. The unknown energy that appeared ambient before, receded completely, at least within the cage.
It now felt like the entire cage was made to prevent use of that energy. Good thing I wasn't actually affected by it. I then lied down in my cage and pretended to be sleeping in hopes that the guards would start talking again.
An amount of time, which felt like an eternity but was probably actually closer to 10 minutes, had passed and the guards were finally convinced that I slept and started conversing with each other. Still, I didn't speak the language they used and had to come up with a solution to that issue.