Chain Ganging

"What are we digging this crap for?" I was swinging a pick axe, the guy to my right had a shovel, and the guy to my left was sorting through what I pick axed up. I waited a week to ask because well I'm not rude and I wanted to get to know my coworkers!

"Shut up they beat those who talk." I had not seen this, but I had not heard people talking, the one who responded was the guy on my left, I'll call him lefty.

"That seems rude, I mean we're already chained up and forced to dig, why not let us talk?" I was promptly picked up by a creature with goat legs (he unhooked me first in case that wasn't obvious). He drug me down to a room full of torture devices and sat down and told to wait (like I had an option since I was chained down). I waited, the torture implements were scary, but you know I've done this dance before you can't scare me (well you can but that usually involves genital torture and most people are too squeamish for that, shit I just screwed myself in the future haven't I?) As is usual for these kind of things my torturer took a minute to get there, because that's also an expected type of thing with this stuff. I was surprised when he eventually arrived he was a human and not some weird monster.

"Mr. Lorentino." I didn't look up, I'm a big fan of not showing your hand in an interrogation and them knowing who I really was didn't come as a huge surprise.

"I don't know who that is, I'm Nidget Pavarossi." It pained me to claim to be Nidget, pained me.

"No you aren't Lorentino, we know who you are, we know what you are." I hate when people know something I don't, because it puts me at a disadvantage.

"A guy digging in a hole he doesn't understand?" It seemed like a good description of what was going on. My interrogator was dressed in a bunch of gold jewelry if I wasn't in this weird dimension I'd have assumed he was a member of the Ronerawth royalty.

"Oh Mr. Lorentino you sell yourself short." I totally do, I mean other than pretending to be a shorty, I consistently self myself as a lesser person! "In fact if it weren't for you, we wouldn't be in this wonderful world we exist, you gave this to us with your contributions to the cause, and now that you have been returned to us you're going to give us the piece we really need." I do admit this bit terrified me, for a number or things, but mostly that I somehow opened a dimension full of monsters. Because I have to admit even in my most awful I didn't think that was something I'd do, but you know it doesn't surprise me that much.