diff --git a/B1-Caligula/.c1-naked.md.swp b/B1-Caligula/.c1-naked.md.swp deleted file mode 100644 index d354516..0000000 Binary files a/B1-Caligula/.c1-naked.md.swp and /dev/null differ diff --git a/B1-Caligula/c1-naked.md b/B1-Caligula/c1-naked.md index ac3a23e..1708bc7 100644 --- a/B1-Caligula/c1-naked.md +++ b/B1-Caligula/c1-naked.md @@ -198,3 +198,48 @@ technically clothing and so at least I was no longer technically naked. I turned around to find her still appraising me until I finally lost my patience and snapped. "Well are you letting me out of here or just planning to keep me in this cage for your own amusement?" + +Clink! chimed the heavy iron key, which she must have slipped into the lock +while I was turned away. Without breaking eye contact the smirking jailer swung +the barred cell door wide open for me. + +"Trust me love, releasing you into our world will provide me infinitely more +amusement than keeping you here. You'll see. Come." she said, challenging me to +accept this inexplicable freedom. I stepped over the threshold, pushing myself +through a fresh wave of doubt. The whole 'amnesia' thing was starting to seem +questionable. I had a queasy feeling that there were no memories awaiting me out +there. That I would never recall my past because there was nothing to remember. +I was becoming increasingly convinced that once I escaped this prison I would +spend the rest of my life in the dark about what if anything had come before. + +[[55]] The next few hours of my life were no less disconcerting. The jailer with +the lingering eyes passed me immediately into the custody of another, second +jailer who by way of contrast seemed to find me utterly boring. He had nothing +to say as he lead me down a long unlighted rough hewn stone tunnel. I had to +keep close to him and his feeble lamp to see anything at all but he paid me no +heed. At one point I dared a quick glance behind and saw the first jailer +standing exactly as I had left her, still holding her lantern and still gazing +at me with her leering smile. Why did she stay like that. Didn't she have +somewhere better to be than in this pit? Unnerved I faced forward and never +looked back again. + +As for the second jailer, if that's a fair title for someone who showed no +interest in jailing people, I got the strong impression that he had a long +itemized list of placed he'd rather be than in the dark with me. Hurrying down +the corridor I got only a glimpse of his young face and world weary, impatient +eyes. Our hasty, stumbling on my part, flight down the corridor ended at another +cage, I flinched back afraid I was only about to be confined again but the young +man stepped in himself and stood waiting and for the first time favoured me with +an actual look, of weary contempt. + +"This is an elevator. It's a thing that goes up." He spoke slowly as though I +was an idiot who didn't know what an elevator was. "It's the only way out of +here." + +"Ugh! I know what an eleva..." I started but by that point he'd thrown a lever +which created a shrieking cacophony of grinding metal gears and the cage began +to lurch upwards. I dove forward in a panic at being left behind. He didn't even +have the courtesy to sneer at me but closed the cage door with a tired sigh as I +tried to regain my composure. + +[[...57]][[Consider omission of some expo and smells]]