After awakening, you will learn more about the place you find yourself in and the person who bought you...

You sleep for a long time, which is accompanied by dark dreams...

If you could see yourself from the outside, you would watch your body twitch from side to side and groan on a creaky wooden bed. Your sleep seems to be accompanied by strange convulsions...

In your restless mind, vague images are replaced with frightening speed...

Vague silhouettes in the darkness... Unintelligible sounds that are getting louder, as if the source of these sounds is approaching you...

Your sister's screams... Your mother's sobs...

The bodies of your fellow tribesmen lie on the frozen ground...

Suddenly the ground begins to exude something red... Blood... Streams of blood ooze from the ground...

Streams of blood ooze from the eyes of your fellow tribesmen...

The sacred tree of your tribe is covered with disgusting grayish growths and rots...

Darkness again...

From the darkness you hear many-voiced mocking laughter, which resembles an evil parody of the voices of normal people... As if some unholy damned monsters surrounded you in the darkness and began to mock you...

Among the gloomy darkness a certain silhouette appears... What is it? You try to distinguish the details of the silhouette and you succeed. Do you understand what you see...

Your father's face...

His eyes look at you reproachfully... He utters words in a hoarse voice that make you feel bitter: “You disappointed me, son... You have shown weakness, Varted! You couldn’t do anything... Your family died... Your tribe was swallowed up into oblivion... All of this is your fault... Your fault... Your fault! YOUR FAULT!"

Suddenly you wake up. You jump out of bed. The only clothing you have on your body is a cloth loincloth. You feel like your body is covered in cold sweat. However, you quickly realize that the effect of weakness that arose due to the fact that you were **** to drink the strange cloudy liquid from the bottle has passed. Your vision, your hearing and your coordination are back to normal. You are happy about this fact.

You think: “Now that my body is free of weakness, I can take actions that will allow me to escape! However, I need to be careful and look around carefully..."

You touch the gold ring in your nose. The pain from having your nasal septum pierced has already dulled. You only felt slight discomfort.

You thought: “Perhaps this magic ring allows me to understand the speech of the locals. I would really like to break this ring, take it out of my nose and throw this ring away. But first I need to find my mother and sister. And organize an escape."

You look around the small room in which these vile, ugly creatures have locked you.

However, you do not have time to notice anything important.

You hear a metallic grinding sound coming from the other side of the door. This sound is probably made by the key in the lock.

Indeed, you see the door opening. You see a figure familiar to you: grayish scales instead of skin, scary non-human eyes, no nose...

This is one of the persons who brought you here. This time this person is wearing leather armor and does not have a cloak with a hood. In his hands you see a wooden tray with pottery containing some kind of food and possibly liquid.

This monster looks at you with his vile non-human gaze and says in a hissing tone: “I brought you food, ****. Now I will place the tray of food on the stone floor of your cell. I do not advise you to take any rash actions..."

While this freak was speaking, you noticed that his tongue was forked like that of the viper snakes that live in the Blighted Marshes south of Witch's Tooth Mountain. You remember how about four years ago a traveling merchant came to your tribe’s nomadic camp and showed you the dried bodies of these snakes. He told you about their habitat and the properties of their poison.

You thought: “Now this disgusting freak is going to bend over to put the tray on the floor. I will take advantage of the moment when he is in an awkward position. I will attack him and smash his head on the stone floor until this scum dies or loses consciousness. And then I will look for items that will help me escape from this mansion: weapons, supplies, clothes..."

So, you are ready to rush forward to attack this snake-like monster. Your enemy bent down to place the tray of food on the stone floor.

You almost had time to rush into the attack, when suddenly you saw that there was someone else behind your enemy. In the doorway you can see the silhouette of the second person who participated in your escort yesterday. This second monster looks just as disgusting to you as the first monster.

However, there is an important difference: the second monster is holding a crossbow, which is clearly loaded and which is pointed directly in your direction.

Your second enemy grins disgustingly. He says: “I can easily shoot you, ****. Therefore, it is better for you not to try to attack me or Xaeji..."