A Bleak Outlook
The Never Ending Quest - Episode 4094
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Things looked bleak for Princess Astra of Aqualaria. Captured by the
dragon, and chained naked to
a tunnel wall as bait for other adventurers (see #38), there would be no
Fred along to rescue her
now, not that she was expecting Fred of course. She had lost track now of
long she had been trapped in the dark tunnel. It was
certainly weeks, maybe months. Once a day,
the dragon would send a minion with food and water for her. Since chained
as she
was she could not feed herself, she had to submit to eating the food held
to her lips.
Her meagre meal finished, the man would throw a bucket of cold water over
her, for a stinking, filthy woman
would be less effective as a lure. The first few days, she had felt the
cold, especially
when she had just been drenched, but now she had adjusted to the constant
temperature
of 55 degrees or so.
Every now and again, the dragon would visit her to gloat, sometimes in his scaly form but more often in his alternative form of a human mage. Then he would cast a spell on her to restore her muscle tone, for imprisoned as she was her muscles would otherwise have wasted away and it suited the dragon to keep her in good condition. Today the dragon visited her again, but this time things went differently. "I grow bored," the dragon told her. "You have been a failure as a lure. No brave knight has succeeded in finding you. Therefore I have decided to do something else with you:
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JH
9/5/1999 12:10:48 PM
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