Caught Red Handed

"Trezlan Lorentino." Sitting in a chair no shackles.  There was a table in front of me room appeared to be stone, couldn't hear water, couldn't really hear anything so sound was pretty much locked out. The man across from me was dressed very nicely, regal robes well maintained long hair, I could smell a hint of perfume even.

"You have me at a loss, you know my name but who are you? Just another beaurocrat who thinks he can scare someone into talking by abducting them off the street?"

"Who I am is unimportant, who you are? Trezlan Lorentino: Murderer, necromancer, former prisoner, frankly I'm amazed you and I hadn't previously met already." He was pacing in front of me.  Me I just sat still in my chair and waited it out, I was unarmed (naturally they wouldn't leave me my sword) but I was still dressed as I had been when I left my room that night? I couldn't tell what day it really was.

"I see my reputation proceeds me, but I do have to say I was not involved in the attack, I ran into some idiots a few days back who used similar weaponry, but if you think I did that you've got the wrong guy." It was the only logical conclusion for why I'd been kidnapped.

"Oh we know, that attack was carried out by bandits, we haven't found them yet, but we will, their new toys while deadly can not stop us.  No Trezlan you are here because we need information you do have." Here's where I got thrown for a bit, because quite honestly I wasn't expecting to just be needed for information, it goes counter to everything thats ever happened to me.

"You could have just asked you know, 'Hey Trezlan we need to speak with you' this kind of black bag over the head drug to an undisclosed location stuff just puts me in the wrong mood to share." It really does.

"Forgive me Lorentino, but I was under the impression you wouldn't assist us if we asked."

"Us?"

"The Red Hand of course."

"Oh right secret imprisonments are used the world over, you'll forgive me if I didn't know immediately." Sad I can admit I've been taken like this MULTIPLE TIMES!

"To the point Lorentino I need you to find me Lorissia Trumane I believe you know of her."

"Nope never met her in my life can I go now." I attempted to leave and the diplomat got in the way.

"Come now Lorentino I know you know her, make this easy on yourself, tell us what you know we'll let you go and life moves on, don't tell us what you know we'll torture you, you'll eventually give it up and you'll leave a broken man or perhaps dead." The door was in front of me, behind the diplomat his eyes pleaded with me man to man.

I smiled, "Well you're welcome to try and break me, and when you're done we'll settle the tab." And with that I opened the door and into a dungeon.  I didn't fight the guards that grabbed me and drug me off, I knew what I was walking into, but for some stupid reason being loyal to a woman I hardly knew and had failed was more important than my own comfort. Perhaps it was love I see that now, figuring if I held out against them it would make up for what I did to her, or maybe I just thought they weren't really going to let me go so why give them what they wanted anyway.  All the same I made things harder on myself for either love (which is dumb) or because I'd figured I was dead (so why not just get that over with, no suffering better way).  Of course I know now I was being an idiot and should have just listened to them, but its not like I can go back into the past and tell myself that!  Yet, I'm still working on spells that might do just that!