Chapter 66- The Day before the Escape

Drocar and Drocai were tossed into a grimy cell at the bottom of the central tower.

The guard who had led them along the hall had been slurring insults towards the dwarven people the entire time. Drocai wanted to lash back at the guard, but could only hold back his emotions.

He had matured a bit since the display of power that Dubs had shown, and was confident that Dubs would not abandon him.

"Dwarven pigs! The only thing you are good for is to be worked to the bone as slaves. Your women are disgusting, and your existence pollutes the beautiful surface! You should all go back to the mines where you were born, and will die!", the guard exclaimed.

Drocar bit his tongue and endured the insults, but Drocai had faith in Dubs to save him.

"Lord Dubs will not forgive you for your racist comments. Wait and see, he will give you what is coming to you..."

The man became angry and readied his whip, giving Drocai a lash across the back. Drocai merely smiled in satisfaction, as he was used to such treatment.

The other guard reacted to this, and scolded his companion.

"Calm yourself, Ricardo. The captain told us that it was the orders of the lord not to harm anyone related to this 'Dubs' character. I don't know who he is, or why he is held in such high esteem, especially since he killed Leopold and Charles, but we must obey the commands of the lord."

The guard who was whipping Drocai held his hand and spit in disgust.

"And do you think we should let this 'Dubs' get away with killing surfacers so easily, just because he is favored by the leader? I say we kill these dwarven pigs here and now to show this man who he was messing with."

The other guard looked alarmed.

"Be quiet when you speak such blasphemy against the leader and his orders! If you are overheard you yourself may face execution for treason!"

"Yeah, yeah."

The guard closed and locked the cage, and Drocar gave his son a hug.

"What a turn of events... first we are saved by lord Dubs, and before we get the chance to save more of our comrades from the empire, we get caught up in the business of the surfacers..."

Drocai responded to his father.

"Lord Dubs will surely come to save us. He is powerful and wise."

The father smiled at his sons maturity in the situation.

"It is truly a good thing for this boy that we met someone like Lord Dubs.", he thought.

Meanwhile, Reagan and the Knights were taken to separate cells on the middle levels of the tower.

They were treated with care this time, as the leader of the surfacers guild had ordered.

"I cannot believe how powerless we are...", Arctus stated.

"This is truly a situation where we can do nothing but rely on Lord Dubs.", Sylvester remarked.

"I will trust that Lord Dubs has a plan. He saved us from the clutches of the empire, and is more powerful than any of us. Despite the fact that we were members of a discriminating empire, he pardoned us and accepted us as his own so that we may begin our lives anew! I am willing to die for him here if that is what must happen!", Reginald proclaimed.

Reagan, who was located in another cell, was beginning to fidget.

Earlier, one of the soldiers had attempted to grope her while she was asleep. She now lay in a cell, and she was asleep during the entire duration of what happened.

"Where the hell am I? Where is my Dubs.... Where is my lab? I want to experiment more..."

The guard told her to stop her mumbling, and she replied with a horrifying grimace, that said "I will not forgive you all."

"Hehehe... It looks like we have found a large number of test subjects, haven't we Dubs? hehehe..."

Reagan continued her insane mumbling for the rest of the night as she remained cradled in her cell.

A day passed, and soon enough the next night came. The night that Dubs planned on escaping.