I Wake Up

I couldn't tell you how long I was out, but I came too on the cold cobblestone. I **** my aching body up, first to my knees, then to my feet. I stumbled slightly as the blood in my body couldn't decide which head to rush too, but I caught myself on a nearby wall.

I took only a moment to collect my thoughts.

What I knew, I was captured, stupid sexy witch, and tortured briefly, felt like a month. She left me in storage and has been gone for around 30 minutes, 30 of my days. My mission continues, I need to find the Jewel. I look down at myself, I also need to find my pants.

I look around the room slowly and realize that being captured may have been as much a blessing as a curse. If I were a cruel and evil witch who had stolen a precious Jewel that a large amount of other witches wanted I would need to do one of two things. Either parade it about to make it too publicly dangerous to steal, or hide it and keep it safe.

Where could be safer than the deep storage where you keep seemingly everything.

The room was full of treasure, gold, fine silk, weaponry, and more. I even saw a chariot lined in gold tucked away in a corner. There were clothes as well, most were for women, some were for men. I looked for clothes that fit me. Nothing fit quite right, no little red riding hood here, but I made do with what I found. The shirt was too big, the pants too tight, shocking I know, and the boots were too big. Soon enough though I was clothed and ready to continue forward.

I began moving through the Witches vault.

It seemed endless, piles of gold stretching on forever, and my hope for finding the Jewel quickly faded to nothingness. I didn't have forever. The Witch said she would only be gone for six hours at most and if she did return and I was still walking about looking aimlessly for some Jewel I had a feeling she could think of far worse fates for me. I needed to move faster.

The tricky part of this quest will be finding the Jewel. My employer said that I would know it when I see it, something about a magic eye, but I wish they had given me some more information than that. Like a drawing of the damn thing.

I continued to walk through the vault for a time, an hour by my count, before something caught my eye. Off a ways there was this glowing blue light, I suppose they did say I would know it when I saw it. I couldn't stop myself from running towards it, finally I could get out of this damn vault, out of this damn tower, and be free from this damn witch.

Then I made it to the glowing thing and found no Jewel. What I found was a person, mummified, just as I had been in the Witches silk.

It was a woman and as I reached her the glow faded away.

What am I supposed to do with a woman?