"I'M GOING TO EAT YOU!" I think this is where I left off from yesterdays story. My pursuer had decided to take to tact while I was trapped in a closet, these things happen they say. The closet had absolutely nothing inside of it. I mean there was some assorted junk, a mop or two, but nothing useful (why have a closet without a crate labeled "do not open secret weakness" I mean honestly monsters!) I could feel the midget's smashing getting more insistant and tried to come up with a plan when it all of a sudden stopped. I figured this was a ploy so I took a minute to regain my strength (holding a door against what could be the last thump of your life is a bit stressful). I got the courage to open the door and peak around, the midget was gone, like he hadn't even been there.
I looked around to see if I'd just missed where he'd scampered off to, but the room was fairly normal looking, stone, wood up above (the wood up above was my first indication I wasn't in the sewer any longer, if I'd been paying attention when I was hanging upside down I would have noticed this, I was of course otherwise engaged!). The room was illuminated by little oil lamps on the sides, I only started to notice this illumination as they started to go out one by one, I was about to retreat to the closet, but that door slammed shut behind me. I could hear laughter as the last lamp died.
"You're in the dark, weaponless and no one knows you're here Lorentino, so ends your life."
"At least I'm taller." Again full of one liners. I could feel the nether creatures presence before he attacked (magical creatures/dulled senses making me more suspectible to notice). I decided to go for broke, I erupted a fireball in front of where I thought it was going to be. I saw it again, this time all vestige of being a man was gone (must have dropped the illusion in the dark). He laughed again as my fire erupted.
"Seriously? One fireball wasn't enough had to try it again?"
"I just wanted to know where you are ugly." I plunged my right fist past his massive maw (when in doubt reach past your enemies greatest strength, unless his strength is like uhh burning skin? I didn't really think this one through) and down his throat, it felt beyond words ability to describe. I had little time before he simply bit my arm off after the shock wore off so I focussed the fire on fist and prayed to whatever luck I had that it held. My hand got scorched, the burning pain surged through it warping my fingers, it hurt in a way that I can't explain. For a brief moment the room got really bright and hot, and then the creature vaporized in front of me (take note whoever reads this, most things are immune to things on the outside, but on the inside they are as weak as anything else). I didn't have time to celebrate my victory as I heard foot steps up above and what sounded like militia, torches came to me in the darkness and with it armored men.
"Oh thank god you're here there was a horrid little creature..." I was relieved to see them until I was roughly accosted and put in chains.
"And now we've caught you, you monster!" Yeah just my luck honestly, as I killed the midget creature someone finally figured out the location for the beast that was eating people in the city, ain't that some shit! I was roughly pulled out of what turned out to be a basement somewhere in the city, I really didn't get to see much, saw upstairs looked fairly normal, I saw my sword briefly sitting on a desk, and then I was tossed into the back of a carriage and the door was locked. Off to real prison I went (my previous incarceration was like a happy joy joy time compared to the prison in Rolak, with any large society you have some kind of depraved prison system). As I was being shoved into a solitary cell and the key locked shut I thought to myself "Who the hell was I looking for in the first place?"
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