Mystearica
Star
- Joined
- May 20, 2014
Lethe groaned as she slowly came to -- black spots danced before her eyes, resolving themselves into greater shapes as her mind desperately tried to unscramble itself. Unfortunately for her, all she could see was blackness still but for faint creases in it -- almost like... like stonework. Lethe twisted her head away from the ground she'd been staring at, trying to bring her arms around to push herself up but... it was to no avail -- her shoulders burned and her arms were asleep, a sure sign of being bound roughly by the wrists and forearms.
As her arms burned to life in a series of unpleasant pinpricks, Lethe rolled herself forcefully onto her back, arms whinging in pain when she did so. She could feel her legs were bound at the ankles as well, though that didn't inconvenience her much as she rolled onto her bottom, tail flicking out of the way so that she didn't sit on the end of it. With that done, she slowly inched her way backward until she pressed her back against the wall.
"Ugh... Lethe... Lethe, is that you?" came an all-too-familiar voice.
Lyre was the younger of the two twins, and accordingly looked entirely like Lethe, but for longer hair and a preference for red over her sister's green.
"Yeah, it's me. Hold on one moment and I'll get us out of this," Lethe said, closing her eyes as she flexed every muscle in her body, willing herself to transform. Electricity suddenly ran throughout every vein and along every nerve of her body, elicting a high cry from the young laguz. "Agh!"
"Lethe! What's wrong?" Lyre asked, trying to rotate herself on the floor so she could see her sister.
"Can't... transform," Lethe managed through ragged breathing. There was a choker -- a collar, rather --'round her neck from which every bolt of electricity ran -- she couldn't see it, of course, but she could feel it there, constricting.
"What happened?" Lyre asked, her voice growing quiet.
"I... don't know. But if I had to guess by this cell and whatever they did," Lethe said with a derisive note, "I think we've been captured by beorcs."