The small beam of light crept into the pit, illuminating the open gash on his leg. The maggot's within shuttered, then continued with there morbid feast.
"So finaly you've come for me ......... I thought you were just goint to leave me here to rot in the darkness of this dammed hole. How long have I been here ....... a day?......... a week?.......more?
A quiet laugh and a flutter of robes came from the blackness.
"Are you going to awnser me or just giggle like a peasent girl"
Again the laughter came from the black, as if only an ecchooing note of a flute carried on the wind. The voice of a child followed
"The rest come .....get to you soon ...... we play?"
"Hrmph leave it to Cairon to send the bastard offspring of the village idiot and the town whore to care for me till then. None the less till they come, I shall shall enlighten u as to how I came th be in the wreched Fissure. Or would u prefer to just giggle as a fool to yourself in the dark "
The now visable figure gave a quiet nod and an excited squeek, then shifted slightly to compensate for what seemed like a deformed limb.
"Storys ..... I like storys...... we play after ! "
"Then lets begin I'll do my best to speak slowly so u can understand me. But first ..toss me your cloak, so that I might be comfotable for the first time in recent memory
