They would not venuture outside, fearing the monsters the Muggles had sent to menace them in the day and the night. Worse still was the scent of the food dropped outside the cave beyond the wall of light, enticing them to their certain deaths, then sickening them when it inevitably spoiled.
Facing death by starvation, the health of the Nevils began to fail. They became gaunt and paled further, untill they were almost living skeletons. With their health, their spirits also fell. Fear and suspicion ran rife as their end was drawing near and, to their disgust, found themselves entertaining dark thoughts untill they were afarid to even sleep.
Only Zyn retained any sembelance of intelligent thought, even as he sat and stared out to the abandoned food and the mainland every waking second, not even speaking to the rest of the Nevils. The group became resentful of the one they thought had brought this curse upon them. They plotted and planned their ovn vengance, fear of the deceptive strength Zyn still posessed preventing them from discussing or acting on their thoughts.
Many weeks of imprisonment passed. The situation becoming more and more desperate as the Nevils grew too weak to even suck moisture from the cave wall. Zyn still sat and stared over the water and many of the Nevils were still afraid. However, Chop, who had resigned himself to his fate, lost his fear and began to speak after days of scilence.
"This is all your fault, you know." he said, his voice raspy and dry.
The other Nevils turned their heads to look at him. Zyn did not move.
"Hey, Chop..." began Patch, obviously trying to diffuse a very dangerous situation.
"I'm not talking to any of you" he said, "and anyway, it's not like I'm the only one thinking it."
He turned back to Zyn, who still had not moved.
"I know I'm not the only one regretting following Zyn. Life with him has been one disaster after another and now we're gonna die on some stinking rock in the middle of nowhere. Look at us! We don't even look like Muggles anymore! We don't even look alive! We should never have let him convince us to betray our families..."
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Date: 2010-06-05 08:46 pm (UTC)Facing death by starvation, the health of the Nevils began to fail. They became gaunt and paled further, untill they were almost living skeletons. With their health, their spirits also fell. Fear and suspicion ran rife as their end was drawing near and, to their disgust, found themselves entertaining dark thoughts untill they were afarid to even sleep.
Only Zyn retained any sembelance of intelligent thought, even as he sat and stared out to the abandoned food and the mainland every waking second, not even speaking to the rest of the Nevils. The group became resentful of the one they thought had brought this curse upon them. They plotted and planned their ovn vengance, fear of the deceptive strength Zyn still posessed preventing them from discussing or acting on their thoughts.
Many weeks of imprisonment passed. The situation becoming more and more desperate as the Nevils grew too weak to even suck moisture from the cave wall. Zyn still sat and stared over the water and many of the Nevils were still afraid. However, Chop, who had resigned himself to his fate, lost his fear and began to speak after days of scilence.
"This is all your fault, you know." he said, his voice raspy and dry.
The other Nevils turned their heads to look at him. Zyn did not move.
"Hey, Chop..." began Patch, obviously trying to diffuse a very dangerous situation.
"I'm not talking to any of you" he said, "and anyway, it's not like I'm the only one thinking it."
He turned back to Zyn, who still had not moved.
"I know I'm not the only one regretting following Zyn. Life with him has been one disaster after another and now we're gonna die on some stinking rock in the middle of nowhere. Look at us! We don't even look like Muggles anymore! We don't even look alive! We should never have let him convince us to betray our families..."
Zyn cut him off.
"We never betrayed them."