The Devil's Ante Chapter 5: Chapter 5 - New Friend and The Tour

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Those green bastards threw me into a goddamn prison. At least they didn't decide on eating me straight from the hunt. Maybe I was too skinny for them and they wanted me to put some weight on first. If that's the case they could at least leave me something to eat. The cell itself wasn't that bad, to be fair. I even had a cellmate, although he was the silent kind. He lay in the corner in a fetal position and did not move a single muscle. That was actually because he did not have any muscles, only bones at this point and not all of them by the looks of it. Some must have been taken by rats or whatever the hell is the equivalent in this world. As for furniture, I had a bed and a bucket. The bucket was essential as this was the only place where I could do the you-know-what. Luckily I didn't really feel like it as the only thing in my stomach was that potion and that thing hopefully got fully absorbed. Unluckily, there was absolutely no light in the general vicinity of the cell. At least I understood why those goblins wore their glasses. They live in almost absolute darkness so the sun must be really bad for their eyes. That was something to remember in case I ever met another goblin in the wild. That is, if I ever got to be outside again. At that moment it didn't really look very likely. I paced around my cell slowly as I got more and more used to seeing in the dark. The only sounds were the echo of my footsteps and an occasional mumble from a goblin passing by the prison. I thought about possible routes out, but right now I couldn't even get out of this simple cell. There were no windows as this place was excavated from a mountain wall. The only way outside was through the cell doors and they were closed for good. I tried them, trust me. As I was on my sixtieth lap of grand prix of the cell, I heard a bunch of keys clunking together and then one of them entered a lock of the doors to the prison. Two clicks later and the doors swung open. Multiple quick footsteps sounded and grew closer with each passing second. Someone was coming and doing it rather fast. "Hey Alea, you there?" I asked, but my question remained ignored. "C'mon Alea, don't leave me on read like that." Still, the only sound I could hear were the pairs of boots coming closer and closer. "Well fuck you too then." She'd been a chatty bitch right up until I needed her quiet, and now that I had questions she'd gone silent. Funny timing The marching stopped. No one was in front of my cell door but I heard a neighboring one being opened and something, or rather someone being thrown to the ground. As soon as the body hit the floor, the doors slammed and the marching resumed. This time however there was an accompanying sound of someone screaming something and hitting the closed metal doors. Their voice sounded different than what I heard so far. It seemed too low to be coming from a goblin of a standard size. I wondered if one of the big ones got themselves into some trouble and ended up here. I moved closer to the wall and listened closely. The screaming stopped as soon as the prison doors were closed. The being on the other end of the wall moved for a bit and seemed to lie on the hard bed near the wall. By the sound that the bed made I could tell that whoever was on the other side certainly wasn't the size of the bare-ass goblin that carried me here. It was a relief but I still didn't know who got thrown here with me. I moved from the wall to sit on my bed to think a bit, but as soon as I plopped down, the voice from the other cell spoke again. Some gibberish and guttural sounds that sounded exactly like the goblins speak. "Well, I don't know what you're trying to say, but good for you or I'm sorry that happened, or whatever." Goddammit Alea, you could have at least implanted some basic language knowledge into me or something. "Oh, ya speak common?" "The wha- I mean, yeah, I do." Well fuck me, finally someone I could speak to in this world. And they sounded pretty human, o