Questions wracked Jack's mind. Never before did this happen and he felt the overwhelming need to protect her. In the morning they would be released into the common area for training and breakfast, only she'd be with hundreds of lonely men who haven't seen a woman for more then a few moments at time. She wasn't supposed to be here?
For the first time, in his life, Jack began to question the point of all this. Who brought her here and why did they seem to want her to suffer?
"Try and get some sleep Jack..." Jack turned to see Jon sliding back into his cot, his voice solemn and grey. He was thinking about her again. Jack couldn't be surprised. Jack looked back at the woman with the glow and sighed before climbing into his own cot. He had to look out for her, or she won't make it.
"Athchomar chomakaan. Ahna zin Khal mra Khals, Khal Jinn." He said and Tenanye gave him a stiff nod. He then gestured the cell around them.
"Jini mra rekke lajak drivolat." He said, with a bit of sarcasm and resentment in his tone. Tenanye sighed. Fighting pits. She'd heard of such things, in places like Meereen, but they'd long since been disbanded as far as she was to understand. She looked down at her arms, the iron shackles keeping her hands and feet about 20 inches apart through the chains and at the moment she was much to weak to break them. Someone wanted her to fight here, the put her in iron chains to be level the playing field. She would have laughed it she were not in so much pain.
"Remekat, Jalan." Tenanye looked up to see the Khal laying back on his cot, his voice soft before he drifted off to sleep. Tenanye sighed and lay back on the cold floor, and was surprised at how easy sleep came to her.
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They were awoken to the sound of banging on the cells. Tenanye sat straight up,hissing like a viper. "Get up, Time to go."
Tenanye hopped to her feet, the pain and weakness was still there but her stamina had returned. She blinked the sun having crept into the cells from the few holes in the stone above them.
"Fin ajjin melikh?" She asked the Khal.
Before he had time to answer, four men came toward her, grabbing her chains and dragging her toward one of two exits.
The boy from across the cell, jumped up.
"Oi! Where are you taking her?!" He asked, grabbing on to the bars. " She's not supposed to be in here? They'll hurt her!" He called out and Tenanye looked at him oddly. He was concerned for her safety? "Quiet you, or we'll make you fight her." said one of them as she was tugged by her chains.
"I will live." was all that she could tell the concerned boy before she was yanked out of his sight and into a large area where men looked at her in awe.
"Train, and Eat, then you'll fight." said one of the guards and then with a shove, they disappeared back in the cells. She noticed how they didn't seem to do this with the others. They just opened the cells for them and they could leave if they want to.
The boy, dashed out, leaving his cell mate behind and rushed up to her.
"Ma'am, ma'am um, I am so sorry this is happening to you, there are woman cells but--"
"Back off, Jack, she dun't want no little boy wet behind the ears." said a man with half of his teeth missing and a glass eye. He sauntered up to her with all the swagger he could muster. "What is a pretty thing like you doing in here?"
"It must be a mistake, how about we go back inside and I'll find a guard to --" The boy, Jack, took a gentle hand to the crook of her elbow, trying to lead her away, but the man cut him off again. "Piss off, boy, she's mine!" He hissed and Tenanye's eye twitched as he took her arm and tried to lead her away. The boy was clearly trying to help, thinking her weak and this man clearly thought her someone that could be claimed. They both would be sadly mistaken. Tenanye, grabbed the man by the throat and lifted him off of his feet, and slowly began to crush his throat. She felt a bit of disappointment, if she were at full strength, it wouldn't have taken much effort to shatter his windpipe. Oh well.
"Whoa!" Jack exclaimed, looking back his cellmate who was one of the many that circled them, seeing what Tenanye could or would do.
"I do not belong to anyone." She told the man as he hit the sand, clutching his throat. She could have snapped his neck, but she decided not to, she needed the example.
"Be glad, I chose mercy, If you touch me again....any of you, try touching me, I will forget I know the meaning of the word." She told them, and walked through the crowd, they all given her space, as she approached what looked like food. She turned up her nose.
"I wouldn't eat that." she turned to see the boy back, a little nervous but still concerned.
She smiled at him. He had a sweet heart, she could see that. "I can't imagine I would, and thank you, for your concern of my safety." She said, and graced him with a kiss to his cheek. The boy turned bright red. "Um...Yea--Uh, You're Welcome?" He stammered and spotted her own cellmate across the sand, his expression difficult to read. It was then she noticed it. It was weak but she felt it. Magic.
"What is your name, boy?" She asked, her eyes not leaving the Khal. "J-Jack, Jack Dandy ma'am."
"I am Tenanye Ananse, Empress of Anansai, Queen of the Faeries." She said and the boy looked stunned. "F-Faerie?"
"Yes, I owe you a debt of gratitude, Jack Dandy, anything you need, you shall have it." She said. "Now run along, I need to eat, and you do not want to see my choice of breakfast." She said and he looked frightened but did as she asked and ran off to a pretty looking fellow with a perpetually sullen look.
She turned to the food, turned up her nose.
She brushed her tongue over her teeth and smiled. Her fangs were still there, hidden, but there, which meant so was her venom. She would eat, and she would eat well.
*What is happening?