Sophia was taken to a wooden door at the end of a long hallway. The royal guard opened it and unlocked her tight cuffs. Sophia rubbed her wrists and was shoved into the dark room.
The stone room was dark except for a small square window that was too high to see out of. A pile of sheets were thrown about in the corner that was probably supposed to be her bed. The jail cell reminded her of ones from the medieval times back on Earth.
Sophia paced back and forth in the small cell. She had no idea where they were taking Tyrex. She didn't know when the trial was going to take place. She doubted whether she made the right decision on preventing Tyrex from fighting.
“We both might die anyways,” she whispered.
Sophia sat down on the pile of sheets. She was a long way off from being tired. The intense meeting with the Elders and the threat of death meant that she could probably stay awake for days.
–
She awoke when the a key entered the lock in her door. She got up and hoped to see Tyrex coming to rescue her.
Instead, a guard plopped down a bowl filled with dark green liquid. “Eat up, alien.” He closed the door and she was left in the semi-darkness.
She had no idea how long she had slept or how long she had been imprisoned. All she knew was that she was starving and this “food” my be the only thing she gets to eat for awhile.
She picked up the bowl and stirred the liquid with the wooden spoon. There were chunks of something mixed in. The thing looked like a bowl of vomit.
“Here we go.” Sophia hesitantly raised a spoonful to her mouth. She pinched her nose and tasted it. “Not bad.”
She downed the alien soup in seconds, wiping her mouth with the sheets she had been sleeping on.
“Now if I can find out when I'm getting out of here.” She stood up and knocked on the wooden door. “Hello? Is anyone there?”
She waited patiently, knocking every minute. But nobody came.
–
The door opened, waking her again. Sophia didn't even want to look to see if it was Tyrex. She knew she wasn't going to be rescued. Tyrex was probably stuck in a worse jail cell than this.
But she was starving and that green soup sounded good. She got up and saw a guard standing in the doorway. Her heart dropped when she saw that he had no food in his hands.
“I guess I'm not getting fed now?”
The blue-skinned guard grunted something but she didn't understand.
“Well, don't just stand there. Come in or go away.”
“Your trial begins soon. I will take you to the meeting square.”
Sophia understood each of those words.
She might die today.
But at least she'd see Tyrex one last time.