As I woke up I heared multiple people talking around me.
My head hurt and I could feel my hands and legs were bound to something.What is going on here? Why is it so bright here?I opened my eyes just to see a candle right in front of me.
„Guys, he finally woke up." A guy said emotionless while the candle made distance to me.<
„Finally"
said another voice coming from behind me.
„It was about time I slowly got impatient"
came a voice from the left. The situation was confusing to me. It happened too suddenly for myself to really asses what is happening right now .Questions like „Who are they? What is happening? Where am I? Why am I here?" are floating in my head.
I couldn't even answer them because as I tried to speak just muffeled noises came out making me realize that my mouth was covered by something.
"You seem to be confused but thats no wonder"
spoke the guy directly in front. A bit of clarity got into my head and I looked around the room I was in. A room filled with nothing but dust just me bound to a chair and the three people surrounding me. All three had masked covering their faces and clothes in black. They would look exactly the same if not for their body. One was tall but a bit slim. The second was also tall but a bit fat. And the third one was a Woman? The stature definitely looked like one with feminine features. As I thought back a bit there was one who had a high voice.
„and curious too"
the woman went on.
"You had quite a lot of money on you. Not as much as we expected but still quite a sum."
"No normal person would carry that much money with them except maybe some nobels."
"So tell me from which noble family are you?"
Confusion again overcame me. They kidnapped me for my money. Why?. And what noble family? I tried to speak but my mouth was still covered.
"I will remove your mouth cover and afterwards don't even try to scream for somebody its no use. Nobody will hear you."
As the bandage got removed I said
"Im from no noble family so please ..."
Before I finished my sentence I felt pain and I laid on the floor. My mind was spinning and the voices again muffled.
"Have you gone insane!?"
"What!? He just got what he deserved! We should just have killed him on the spot!"
"Now you have really gone crazy! We want to get extra money from his family and you want to straight up kill him?!"
Kill me?Hearing those words the reality really got to me. I am in the clutches of people who see my life as nothing but money. I am worth nothing to them and they expect the one thing from me I am not. As I was lying on the floor still bound to the chair, blood was coming out of my mouth. I pleeded for my life in the little voice i could just muster up "Please don´t kill me. I am not someone ..."
Again someone stepped onto my head.
"Shut up! We wont believe you. You better say the truth"
Now I heared another punch but I felt no pain.
"You asshole why did you hit me? You are protecting this little kid?"
"It seems like I should have kicked you out of my team already. You are using your muscle too much recently and your brain too spare. We need him to be able to talk to get the name of his noble family."
„I know we already discussed this but what if he really is not a noble? His clothes doesn't seem to be from a noble at all."
„It's just him shameless act. He pretends to be a peasant"
„If not? We will just kill him. Its not like anybody will even notice or care that he is gone."
„Please spare my life" I whispered as tears were streaming down my face.
„We will if you give us an answer that satisfy us and remember my patients is not Infinite"
With these words one of the guys helped me up bound the mouth cover again and all of them left the room. I was left alone in the dark room. There was not even coming light from the one window I saw earlier. Window? No please don't let the sun come up. I don't want to feel the pain again. Such a terrifying feeling overcame me that I temporarily forgot the situation I am in and the pain I feel for real right now. Blood comes out of my mouth on top of the dizzyness and I nearly need to puke. Never in my life was I in a situation like that. Words from Daniel popped up in my head.
„Humans would do everything for survival". Even the Man from the street said the same. Why didnt I just believe them.
I did not believe his words but it seems like I was wrong. They kidnapped me just for the money I had and for nothing else. Why did it happened to me? How could they even know? Why did nobody do anything against it? Is somebody searching for me? As all that happened went through my head I asked myself more and more question. Why is the world so cruel to me? Before I could think any further the door opened. The door was located behind me so I could not see who came in. Into my view came the woman. She came with a chair,a candle and food. Food? Do they want to Give me food? She placed the chair in front of me and sat down. Probably noticing my looked that was clued to the food she spoke
„You seem to be hungry. Do you want it?"
I nodded my head. I was hungry since I woke up here.
„You can have it" She continued
„You just have to tell us the truth about your family"
Desperation creapt into me. I am already telling the truth! Why won't they except it? I didnt want to say another word but as I stare out of the window into the darkness I saw a small shimmer from the horizon. What I dont want to happen just arrived. But seeing the situation I am in I see no difference to die by their hands or by simple pain. I relaxed my body knowing I cant to a thing. Would it be enough if I just lied? I dont know any Noble Family around here and even if I had luck no Noble would likely waste even one bronze coin for me. I learned, didnt I?
My silence seemed to have tikt of the Woman who janked up my head and brought me close to her. I felt something cut into my skin on my throat a warm substanz running down my chest.
"Is it your pride as a noble that holds you back from becoming an embarrasment?"
Did I wanted to die. No way but I am no Noble. What about Daniel would he save me?
"I am no noble man. I just came into the city with Daniel. He is a merchant from the Uraser Guild. If you want money you can get it from him."
She let go of my head and walked behind me.
"So from the Uraser Guild. We will check."
And with that she left the room letting me stare into the light that slowly seept into the room. It let me see several trees but nothing more. All parts of my body began to feel the agony. I could still concentrate and I could swear I saw the light and darkness blure together before me. No I coudnt see it, there was just a feeling. And it was neither before me. It was my own body with the light that shined onto me. This was accompanied with pain that went through my own body. It built up from thousands of ants biting me to some riping my organs out of me. Did I scream? I dont know I had no awarness of my surroundings. The only thing I could feel was pain. Unimaginable amount of pain. It was like the world I am living in was pain itself. Nothing existed but my body and pain. It got worse and worse to a point where death was the mercy I so much hoping for. But it never came. Something seem to hold me alive. I dont know how long I was in this state but slowly I got numb to the pain. I was too exhausted to even feel it. As those feelings faded I felt something different. The entire time I saw only darkness but now I felt something infront of me. I tried touching it but I had nothing to touch it with. I had no body. But there is something. I feel it. As I concentrated more and more I could feel a shape. A string that seem to be infinite changing it length and structure at any moment. But any time It was a single string or that is what I think.
What is this? I wondered. I tried touching it but my hand just went through it. But just as I wanted to pull my hand away a part of the string grabbed my hand which let to me trying to pull it away harder and harder but now matter what I did nothing helped. It feels like my arm would give up first instead of the string. Few second later it let me go and I fell backwards onto the floor. I inspected my arm to check if it is still there and it is. The only difference is that where the string grabbed me are now red markings. At first I thought they are left behind because of my struggle against the string but soon they began to visible burn, shining brigther and brighter until I found myself opening my eyes.