The Problem with Stakes

You ever feel sweat sizzle on your body? No? Well its not a very fun feeling.  I had been staked in the hot sun for a couple hours before I started to hallucinate, or not hallucinate, its hard to tell what was or wasn't there.  I could see what looked like carrion birds waiting for their meal, I could also see I was alone.  Now I don't know if this means Morley was staked somewhere else, or this was all an elaborate rouse between him and Fizzle to just kill me.

I had to look at my situation clearly.  I was staked to the ground with shackles attached to both wrists, and then attached to the stakes in the ground.  See this would normally be done with rope, you keep the rope taut so as to not have any give, and because rope is not stronger than the wood stake you have in the ground (not that I've ever staked a person to have them die, but its not exactly an uncommon method of horrible execution).  You would do this because if the thing you attached to the stakes is too loose or stronger than the stakes themselves.  Well the person staked there can simply pull at their restraints until they break the stakes (thankfully he used wooden stakes, I guess if he had used metal I would have been really screwed, or his creepy tentacle things). It took a while, and wasting precious energy I didn't really have to waste, but eventually I pulled the shackles holding my arms free.  With that accomplished I did the same for my legs (talk about overkill, he could have just tied my legs there the shackles trapped my magical power anyway).

It wasn't like I was in a good place anyway.  I was in his bonefield, subject to his damn tentacles, and now I had 4 shiny magic inhibiting shackles locked to my body (Damn things were supposed to be rare, but it seemed like everyone had them). He also had my sword, and I liked that sword, so depsite me not originally intending on killing Fizzle I now certainly wanted to (talk about a self fulfilling prophecy, I bet he didn't see THAT coming). I figured he had to be close by, and there would be some kind of cave enterance for him to move in and out (and based on no drag marks, he also had help in that cave). On top of all of those problems, there was the fact he could literrally be watching me at any moment, though I wasn't sure how his power worked, if he had to think about me as a person, or an object or what? I was really confused (more so than normal).

I did know I had to get off the ground and so I hopped on to one of the bones and surveyed around.  I could make out what appeared to be an entrance ahead. Standing in front of it looked to be a couple creatures that did not appear to be human (oh Fizzle what other dark sorcery were you involved with sadly I had to find out).  I could kind of make out a path towards the cave walking on bones, with only a small bit of ground before the entrance. So at least I had a path in front of me, how I was going to take out the guards/not alert them while I jingle jangled my way up there? Yeah that was the trouble.  But as I've already explained many times before, I'm stupid, and part of being stupid is having the hope that in my dumbery I'll succeed.  It's kind of like dumb invincibility, if I don't think about it, I can totally take on the world. Try not to think about that for too long or blood will shoot from your nose.