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Creative Writing: A Thousand Masks

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My mind is only able to piece together that the word mage was short for magician before I feel my body squeezed into an invisible tube and the man begins to speak in a familiar chant. Bones start to bend almost as though they are ready to snap and muscles contract painfully. The green so familiar to me now begins to brighten filling my vision until it clears suddenly, and I am facing the mage, who is sweating and out of breath. He takes a swig of something from a vial that is so red it coats his teeth and he begins again. Only when the mage begins to shake, does he stop the ritual and walks me back to my cell, my puppet strings tightly wound even after the cell door closes. I cannot move and I stand staring straight ahead at nothing. After …show more content…

Did he mean to say thanks for the rat? I pointed to the bones my hand to see if that was the case. He shook his head and repeated himself along with the motions and I understood that Soris was his name. Dropping the bones, I mimed his actions. “Quinn,” I said, pointing to my chest, then pointing at him, “Soris” I said trying out the word slowly. He nodded with a smile and at even at a distance showing bits of meat stuck in between his teeth. He pointed to the bones I dropped outside the cell and murmured another word. I mimed a rat to make sure he meant the animal and not the bones themselves. He nodded and repeated the word.

“Rat,” I mimicked and received another nod and a smile. Until he fell asleep, Soris pointed to items around our cells, that we could see and tell me how to say them in his language. I do not know why he wanted to teach me but it was nice to have someone to distract me from everything. I doubt any of us would be getting out anytime soon, but now I had hope. Focusing, I watched Soris indicated with his hand and spoke the words for hand, fingers, and counted them. At least I hoped he was. The language was odd and will likely take me a few times, no doubt, to get the words and meanings

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