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"Who are you?" asked a repeated the elleth clearly getting annoyed.

We remained silent and I glanced over at Jack who made no move, you could only see his eyes but I could tell that he was putting up the stone front, as was everyone else.

I stared at her and she stared back, we kept this up for what seemed like eternity but really was a few minutes. She eventually turned her gaze away and order the elves around us to collect the weapons we had and to tie our hands behind our backs. We were to be taken to the palace and not to depart until the leave of their king, Thranduil.

They quickly carried out her orders and we were being roughly taken farther into Mirkwood.  We reached the gates not too long after we were taken. I stopped for a second and looked at the outside of it before roughly being pushed into the darkness that lay behind the big strong wooden gates.

After a moment my vision instantly focused and adjusted to reveal the inside of this fortress which was truly amazing, not only in it's size and layout but the intricate details and carvings along the walls and beams.

We were taken down a quite narrow hallway where there was long drops on each side if one were to misplace their foot. We were lead deeper in and were brought to the dungeons and were broken up, an elf or two taking us by the arms individually to be put in our cell. The red haired elleth who had questioned us early in the forest took my arm and lead me to my cell.

She opened the door and before looking me up whispered near my ear, "I'll talk to you later tonight." With that she pushed me in and closed the door locking it and gave me a subtle wink.

I walked back to the prison door and looked to see the elves locking up the others. I could see acroos the hall over the deep gap in the rock, Jack in a cell, and to his right in another cell Apellus, and to his left Kelebron. I looked to see Celebron, and Phelius also in seperate cells on each side of me.

The elves had finished locking up the last cell and departed from the dungeons. Silence came and not a sound was heard for several minutes. Once I was sure that they were gone, I talked in a low voice and just to be safe in our language.

"One, is everyone okay?"

"Yes, we're fine." said Jack from the other side. I heard Phelius agree with his reply and a mumbled "yes" from Celebron on my left.

"When are we going to get out of here?" grumbled Celebron, clearly not happy with his new surroundings and confinement.

 "Who knows?" said Apellus sighing and leaning against his cell wall. "This place is solid, no way out of these dungeons, you don't come out unless they want you too."

"Since when did you become so pessimist?" asked Kelebron.

"I'm not being pessimist, I'm being realistic. We'd have to come up with something really good if we want to get out of here. "

"It can't be that hard, we've been here before remember?" said Phelius.

"Yes, but that was different. We weren't captured as prisoners and then brought here and thrown into the dugeons. We were representitives and were only placed in here until the king got satisfactory proof that we weren't spies." replied Jack.

"Now we're being treated as spies and trespassers." said Celebron with frustration.

"It would seem so." I said.

"It's hopeless. We'll never get out of here, not without blowing our cover." said Phelius.

"I wouldn't assume that so soon." I replied as the wheels in my head started to turn trying desperately to come up with a solution.

"Well do you have any better ideas?" scoffed Celebron as he said his remark sarcastically.

I ignored him for a moment and thought before I had a slight plan forming in my head, it was uncertain and indefinite until I had more information, but it could be possible.

"As a matter a fact, I might." I said taking him off guard while getting everyone else's attention.
Jack looked at me curiously, wanting to know what I could possibly be thinking.

"Does anyone have any weapons on them?"

"Of course not! They took them all from us, really Jules. Did you think we could fight our way out?" Apparently Celebron was going to stay in this mood till we got out of here.

"No, no. Infact I think we shouldn't fight or try to break out at all."

"What are you saying?" Jack studied me with his eyes.

"I think it's possible from us to get out, without these Mirkwood elves knowing what hit them. Or at least, till we're long gone."

"Are you positive?" he asked, still trying to figure out my reasoning.

"No, not yet. But I will be. Oh and our informant made contact with me letting me know that we can chat later tonight. I'm sure whatever doubt or details I need to work out will be answered then. So going back to my other question... I think it's safe to assume that no one has any weapons or anything on them?"

"No." said Apellus.

"Negative." Phelius said.

Jack shook his head no. "They cleaned me out." said Kelebron sadly.

"Nothing." sighed Celebron.

"I thought so."

"Hold on just a minute, what about you? Do you have any?" asked Celebron.

I grinned mischievous which no one could see since I had my scarf on, but Jack could tell I'm up to something.

"Don't worry about that. Just know that I have a way to get out of here if needed."

" "If needed"?! What do you mean by that! Of course we need to get out of here!" Celebron said aggravated.

"Calm down, of course we do. But I think it would be best to try it without drawing attention to ourselves." Celebron grumbled something under his breath while Jack nodded telling me that he would what for an explanation.

"Well-"

"Shh!" I interrupted Celebron.

"What? All I was going to say was that it better be good." continued Celebron ignoring me.

"Shhhh!" I shushed him again as light footsteps echoed down the hall coming from the stairs above. "They're coming, we'll talk later.

"They've come to take us to the king no doubt." said Apellus as he shot up from his relaxed position against the wall and peered through the bars trying to see if he could catch of glimpse of something. Soon we heard voices and four elves came down the main stairs.

They came and unlocked my cell and grabbed my arm firmly pulling me out and shut my cell door behind me. I looked to see they had taken Jack out of his cell too. The guard pushed me forward and towards the steps and we walked to and met up with other guard and Jack.

There was an elf who was in front, then Jack and a guard behind him. And then me and with a guard behind then one final elf to bring up the rear. We were being taken to meet King Thranduil, and no doubt interrogated until he got what he wanted.

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Hey guys! Decided to surprise you with another chapter today since it's Valentine's Day and you've been really awesome with all your comments and support. All of their conversation btw was in their language so there's no chance of them knowing what they said. :) Let me know what you think about the chapter and what Jules has up her sleeve. This update does not mean I won't have another chapter later this week for you unless something comes up. Have a great day.

     Navaer Mellons,

                                 ~Jules

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