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The Kingdoms of Magic Book 7 Excerpt
Some distance away, beneath King Shadak’s throne room and down a long, immense, low-lit underground gorge are the King’s Prison cells. Embedded on both sides of the gorge are a series
of tiered cubicles: eight feet high, eight feet wide and ten feet deep. The cubicles are stacked three high with sixty in each tier and two feet of solid rock separating each cell from the next.
To
reach each tier of cells there is a two foot wide stone walk in front of each row of cells. There are no hand rails on the outer side of the walk ways. To slip and fall off these walk ways means to
fall into the abyss. These walkways converge at each end of the gorge into tunnels and are heavily guarded by flying Tarkin. Here they keep the humans they have captured. There are hideous black
spiders with razor sharp needle-like fangs that climb the walls of the gorge and guard the cells. If one tried to leave he would be better off falling to his death than to end up as food for the spiders,
for they enjoy eating their food alive and slowly – and especially like hearing humans scream.
There are no windows in the cells and the cell doors are made of heavy wood with a small rectangular opening for a guard to peer into the cell to see if its occupants are still alive.
Each
door has big iron hinges and three sets of latches to keep it closed. The smell in the gorge is that of decaying humans, feces and urine. Duchess Dielos is on the second row, fifth cell from the end on
the left hand side from the King’s Throne room.
Duchess Dielos, lying on an old, filthy cot, finally comes out of her sleepy stupor, sits up, looks around a bit and, horrified, says, “Oh God, where am I?”