Category : Books-Fiction

Sub Category : Suspense/Mystery

As soon as the handcuffs were off The Magician's hands he lept up and threw a nasty right hook punch knocking Blight right in the head. Blight growled and gave The Magician a swift kick to his shin. Blight had expected something like that from The Magician, always ready to fight to get out he was.The Magician had also expected retaliation from Blight, in fact he had hoped for it. Because while he knew his punch wouldn't work it would give him a chance to look around the room a little more.As he scanned the room he saw what he was looking for. It was a small and carefully cut green gemstone on a small stand off in the southwest corner of the room. He had to get close enough to destroy it. It would be difficult but at least now he knew where he was going. A second later Blight's rough hand grabbed him and pulled him up and The Magician tried to block out what happened next.                              ...The Magician laid back in his cell careful of his injuries. He wasn't handcuffed to the wall this time either because Blight forgot to or because he figured that The Magician couldn't get very far on a broken leg.As soon as The Magician found a position that was as close to comfortable as he could get in the cramped damp cold and clammy quarters with his extensive new injuries he went deep into thought.He needed to find a way out of there. The easiest way to do that would be to break that gemstone, it was holding his power back and he had a feeling he would need all the power he could get. After all he was tired, hungry, thirsty, his leg was broken, his shin was still sore from where Blight kicked him, he had new open wounds on his back from the whip Blight had used along with cuts all over his arms and legs, and he was pretty sure he had stubbed his toe. The rest he could get over but the stubbed toe was just insulting.But how could he get close enough to the gemstone to smash it. The smashing it would be pretty easy, it is a very fragile stone and the shape only needed to be altered just a little bit, it didn't actually need smashing the smashing part just felt better.But how to get close enough? He had almost gotten his chance a little bit earlier but wasn't quite able to as he was quite literally tied up. Of course it was outside his cell so he couldn't do anything about it now.He could find a way to get Blight's keys however, yes that would have to be how it was done. Now all he had to do was patiently wait.