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Another fight come and gone. Alsake thought he would have at least become numb to killing by now, but he still didn't like it. It was this notion that compelled him to not kill his latest opponent. The perfect opportunity had presented itself, but he had purposely not capitalized upon it. The only result that mattered was victory, which he had achieved, but he knew his master was most displeased.

As of the present he was being escorted back to his holding cell by the same old entourage of armed guards. With his reputation as the "Savage Birdman" his master wanted him guarded in order to keep him under control and to further enforce his reputation by showing all Essyrn that he was so dangerous that he needed guards to keep him under control. The crowds were cheering and roaring around him. He had always been a crowd favorite, but he didn't understand why everyone liked him so much. He was a murderer.

Alsake sighed as his destination came within view. He wouldn't have to put up with the obnoxiously loud crowd for much longer.

JackieCat

Ariznim was going to have to take a drastic measure.  She was being followed, and she knew that there was no escape.  She dashed through the streets of Essyrn, her pursuers not far behind.  She sharply turned a corner into an alleyway.  She only had a few minutes, but she hoped that would be long enough.  Even though she could fly, they would still track her, she knew.  They were after her for a circus, and the mosquito girl was not going to give in.

She started her transformation.  It took all of her concentration, and the world faded away from around her.  Her arms and legs became covered in scales and spines, and her body became segmented, another pair of arms started to grow, her wings grew larger and then, she started to shrink.

Five minutes later the transformation was complete.

The tiny mosquito buzzed around, looking exactly like a natural mosquito.  Ariznim flew up and away just as the men chasing her rounded the corner.  They looked around and then ran on, they didn't know of her power.

She couldn't stay in this form for too long, but now she needed to rest, the transformation had taken a lot out of her.  She flew over the city, keeping a watch out for hungry birds, and then she flew down and into a large arena.  The stands were full of screaming and yelling people.  It wasn't very quiet, but she needed rest now.

She flew down into the arena, then looked around.  She flew down a hallway and saw that there were cells all down it.  She was incredibly hungry from her change as well, and she flew into the first occupied cell she came across.

Inside there was a huge muscled man with two bird wings, bird wings that were tied down.  He was a gladiator, Ariznim thought.  She knew that there was a risk of being slapped and killed, and Ariznim usually only bit animals, but the only animals around were rats, and they could easily kill a mosquito, so Ariznim took a chance.

She landed on the man's wing, and then crawled down to his skin, where she assumed would be harder for him to reach, as she was right in the middle of his back.  Then she took a bite.
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Wicked Basket

Alsake knew he didn't have long before his master arrived, so he just sat on his makeshift bed and awaited the inevitable. As he sat, he felt something bite his back. He wings strained against their bonds and Alsake reached back, but his wings were in the way. Before he could attack from another angle the door flew open.

Alsake's master walked in accompanied by a retinue of armed guards.

"On his knees," his master said.

Two of the guards drug him off the bed and onto his knees in the middle of the cell. His master took one of the guards' spears and held it down by the blade. He then swung the shaft into the side of Alsake's head.

"Don't think I don't know what you did," his master growled.

smack

"You had the chance to finish him. I saw it."

smack

"You're a gladiator. I don't care if you don't like killing, you do as your told. And if I tell you to kill, you are going to kill, damnit!"

smack, smack, smack, smack

"Do you understand?!"

His master delivered one final blow, but this one was delivered with the flat of the spear head into the side of Alsake's head knocking him to the ground.

Alsake's master handed the spear back to the guard and left, mumbling under his breath. The guards followed suit and Alsake was alone once more. He picked himself up off the ground and sat back down on his bed. Bruises and welts began appearing on his arm, chest, and face where he had been struck and blood trickled down the side of his head where the metal spearhead had impacted his skull.

Alsake sighed sorrowfully. If he could one thing, any one thing in the world, it would simply be just to go home. He just wanted to go home.

JackieCat

Ariznim would have smiled if she could have, the man couldn't reach her!  But she did feel bad for him, he was a slave.  Then there were words as more people entered the cell.  Then the man that Ariznim was perched on fell to his knees.  Then there was a jostle, and another, and another.  Ariznim couldn't see anything, and she didn't move to look.

There was more jostling, as if the man was being hit, then he fell to the ground.

The other people who had been in the cell left, and the man got up.  Ariznim stayed in place, then flew up and out, landing on top of the man's wings to look around.  She flew off of him and landed, upside down, on the ceiling, looking down at the man.
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Some people live more in twenty years than others do in eighty.  It's not the time that matters, it's the person.
~The Doctor

Wicked Basket

There wasn't much for Ariznim to see. Alsake merely sat on his bed. He had nothing to do, no one to talk to. He looked back over his shoulder at his bound wings. Try as he might, the braces still wouldn't budge. They never did, but that didn't stop him from trying when he was bored. And he was bored quite often. The beating had left him sore, but it wasn't the first and it wouldn't be the last. He began quietly singing to himself in his native tongue to make himself feel better, but it only amplified his homesickness.

JackieCat

Ariznim felt a pan of pity for the man as he started to sing.  How dejected he looked, how hopeless.

She flew over and in front of the man's face.  Perhaps she could help him, but she couldn't change back into her human form, she may not be able to turn back, so she would have to try to communicate this way.

She buzzed around in front of the man's face, trying to get his attention, but always ready to dodge out of the way if he tried to swipe at her.
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Some people live more in twenty years than others do in eighty.  It's not the time that matters, it's the person.
~The Doctor

Wicked Basket

As Alsake sat, a mosquito came down and hovered in front of his face. His first instinct was to swing at it, but he didn't. It was awfully strange behavior for a mosquito to just stay in one place like that.

"You must be the one that bit me earlier," Alsake said in Yoreiqi. "You could have at least bit me somewhere that I could reach to scratch."

JackieCat

Ariznim didn't understand the man's language, but she knew she had caught his attention.  She flew onto the ground and started walking in a circle, just to further show him she was not a regular mosquito.

Then, in the dust, she started to write.  SHIFTER, the letters spelled out the word, and Ariznim looked up at the man to see if he understood.
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Some people live more in twenty years than others do in eighty.  It's not the time that matters, it's the person.
~The Doctor

Wicked Basket

Alsake looked down at the symbols the mosquite had drawn in the dust. Ordinary mosquitoes certainly did not do that. However, he did not know what the symbols were. He could barely speak common, let alone read and write in it. Though he knew enough to realize there was nothing special about this particular insect. Maybe it understood common.

"Don't understand," Alsake said in common while pointing at the letters.

JackieCat

Ariznim sighed, or, sighed as much as a mosquito could, when he said he didn't understand, in common, this time.  She thought for a moment, then flew up and over the man, once again flying down behind his wings.  Then she bit him again.  She didn't really want to, but she needed strength if she as going to change back to her human form, and then back to a mosquito again.

She then flew away from him and into the far corner of the cell, where no passing guards could see her.  Then she began her transformation.  She wasn't going to go into her most human form, that would take too much time and energy, so she transformed into her hybrid form.  The transformation took about one minute, as it was easier to change back from a mosquito than to turn into one.
She smiled somewhat sheepishly at the man, her face mostly human, though with insect skin rather than human, and her eyes irises were patterned as a insects were. "I'm sorry I bit you, but I needed the energy to change."
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Wicked Basket

Alsake groaned as he was bitten in the same impossible to reach spot as before. However, his annoyance was soon replaced by shock and curiosity as the mosquito changed. It grew bigger and more human-like, but was still quite bug-like. It was apparently a she, and she apologized for biting him.

"Why bite back," Alsake asked trying to scratch the bites. "Can't reach."

JackieCat

"Oh, I'm sorry!" Ariznim said. "But I knew you would try to slap me if I went anywhere else.  And it is better to not scratch them," she said. "They stop itching after a while and go away faster."

She stayed in the shadows, but she continued to speak. "I can help you get out of here, if you like," she said. "But, I do not have a plan."
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Some people live more in twenty years than others do in eighty.  It's not the time that matters, it's the person.
~The Doctor

Wicked Basket

Alsake kept trying to reach his back, but his wings and the brace made it impossible. He hadn't understood most of what she said about no scratching, but he caught part of what she said next and it caused him to pause.

"Out," he asked and shook his head. "No out. Master keeps guarded."

JackieCat

"But I'm sure there is a way," Ariznim said. "If there is a way in, there is a way out," she spoke slowly, hoping he could understand her better. "We just need a plan."

She looked around the cell.  It did seem very well constructed, and guarded, but there had to be a way.  Ariznim knew that she could just transform and get out in a second, but not this man.'  "What is your name?" she asked. "I am Arznim."
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Some people live more in twenty years than others do in eighty.  It's not the time that matters, it's the person.
~The Doctor

Wicked Basket

"Alaske," he told her. "From Yoreiq."

He was also curious as to where she was from, but he didn't want to pry. Never had he seen someone like her. She was a bug, but a person. It was very strange indeed. He wondered if she could be completely human like she could go completely insect. Or was this the closest to human that she got?

JackieCat

She smiled, or, smiled as much as she could in this form.  "It's good to meet you, Alaske," she said.

She looked again around the cell from her position hidden in the corner. "And ideas on how we could get out?"
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~The Doctor

Wicked Basket

Alsake shook his head.

"Door locked," he told her. "And too hard to break."

The door of Alsake's cell was made of iron. His master was smart enough to know that a simply wooden door would not be able to contain someone as big and strong as Alsake, so he had it switched out for a tougher iron door.

JackieCat

"But there must be a way to trick the guards," Ariznim said, then she paused as she realized what she was doing.  This was not like her, sure, she hated slavery and abuse, but she was never one to do something so dangerous as this just to help someone.  Not because she didn't care, but because she was usually so busy trying to keep herself safe, with all of the people after her, trying to kill and capture her, she hadn't had much time to help other.  She shook herself, she would think about that later, now, she had to help this man.

"Do you know how to get out of here once we're out of the cell?" Ariznim asked. She could turn into her full mosquito form and find the way out herself, but once she turned back into her mosquito form, she wouldn't be able to turn back into her humanoid form for a while, the transformation took a lot out of her.
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Some people live more in twenty years than others do in eighty.  It's not the time that matters, it's the person.
~The Doctor

Wicked Basket

Alsake shook his head again.

"I only go to fight and back here," he told her. "No outside."

JackieCat

Ariznim frowned as much as her insect-like face would allow.  "There must be a way out," she said, frustrated, speaking quickly. "You know the arena, are there any other exits?"

She shook her head and began to talk slower, Alsake didn't seem to have a very firm grasp on the language. "I'm going to have to scout out the area in my smaller form.  I'll come back then, but it may be a while, I'll need to eat and rest before I transform again."
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Flordia
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Some people live more in twenty years than others do in eighty.  It's not the time that matters, it's the person.
~The Doctor

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