As time passes we learn more about our captor and our cage.

The plateau has a natural spring that provides us with water. Also Emma is surprisingly good at scavenging for edible plants. I guess they teach you more than just how to sell cookies in girl scouts these days.

We've started calling the creature King Minos, or just King. He's gone most days. I'm not positive where he goes, but he usually comes home, to the cave each night with a goat or some other animal to roast. Sometimes he's got some bits of treasure or adventuring gear. That stuff is typically coated in a fair amount of blood. He seems to make regular gifts to Emma of flowers, tattered material or shiny things.

We walk around in torn bits of clothing mottled together. I spend most of the days scouting around, trying to find a means of escape. I spend most nights trying to avoid the monster's rutting.