
Dark lashes fluttered into wakefulness. The first thing Famine identified was an all too familiar pounding in her head as if she'd somehow managed to take another X-ranked punch to the face. A hushed groan elicited from the mage and her back arched away from the cold wall she had somehow been sleeping against so she may sit up straight. The guild master moved in an attempt to rub her eyes with her palm only to realize both her hands were welded together. Azure hues glared down seeing that her wrists were bounded by several uncomfortable layers of...duct tape?
Upon a further inspection of the dim cell Famine realized she was in company: Ahote, Jade, and some other stranger she had no urge to get to know. Wordlessly, she cursed whatever force for bringing her kin into this as well. Glowering eyes moved with the precision of lasers, fixing onto every corner and detail of the small enclosure. The room was complete with three high cobblestone walls and a barred,as well as locked, gate that led out into an even further unlit hall. From one of the ceiling corners within the room hung a small and honestly out dated lacrima screen, switched off. Meanwhile in the corridors center lay a small rectangular device: a tape recorder and smaller cassette which had the words ’play me’ written in a thick black pen across its front.
“You’ve got to be kidding me.”
These kinds of games were hardly her forté. Famine knew she could easily escape the bonds, and so, after scooting closer Ahote’s side, she began her attempt at escape rather than be baited by the bit of mysterious machinery in the cell. She stared at the tape interlocking for her hands for a good minute but sighed in frustration. Her magic wouldn’t come and she knew the damned half-plastic half-sticky substance had to be what the cause. Magic nullifying duct tape how damned ridiculous.
This wouldn’t of been her first time in a pinch like this. Thanks to Heero and the council in Era Famine had learned to get cozy in a cage with magical restraints. Again, she immediately thought of the Era prison… but dismissed the idea just as quickly as it had appeared in her head. This place, it was far too different. What kind of idiot they were dealing with here?
Famine would find out soon enough, the first course of action was figuring out how they would escape. She placed her conjoined hands to Ahote’s sleeve and made a hurried but gentle effort to roust the boy into consciousness all while her eyes flickered between both Jade and the stranger on the adjacent side of the room.