10. Salkatar Prison, Sarania

Day 3 In Salkatar Prison

Alora hadn't eaten ever since she was thrown into prison. The prison guards tried to get her to eat but she threw the disgusting slimy maggot infested food at the wall every time. 

"The other prisoners wouldn't be happy if they saw that.", Walna said, "Extra maggots, a delicacy here." 

Alora laid on her bed and shrugged herself in silence. She couldn't stop thinking about it, she replayed Kai's death. She could still hear his bones snapping like twigs and the image of the very life leaving from his body but the thing that was the clearest of all was Jade's cynical smile. She relived the moment the entire afternoon, going through the trauma again. 

A prison guard came banging at their cell with a bat. 

"Yard time!", he shouted, "Yard time!". 

He shouted those words on and on while the deafening noise of metal clashing against metal made their ears bleed. 

Walna got off her bunker and Alora was still lost in her thoughts. 

"I said yard time!", he banged the bat against the cell bars again. She didn't even flinch. The guard was furious and opened the cell door. He grabbed Alora by the arm and pulled her off the bed. She hit the ground hard on her shoulder, she clinched on to it hard in pain. 

"Insubordination will land you in the box.", he raised his bat ready to beat her down.

Walna stepped in and put her mammoth hand against his chest. He put the bat down, he didn't utter a word or show any signs of resisting. He walked out of the cell silently. 

"Are you alright?", Walna reached out her helping hand to Alora. Alora tossed her hand to the side ignoring her kind gesture. 

***

The yard was filled with prisoners digging and collecting sand stone gems. A common stone found in most of Sarania used for medical healing, common but very valuable. The prison had always been known for being the largest distributor throughout the Saranian boarders.

Alora was handed a pickaxe by a guard and started digging. She dug up sand for hours while the rest of the inmates were collecting the gems like wildfire. Walna walked up to her from behind. 

"Maybe try searching somewhere else.", she said, "Trust me you won't find anything there." 

Walna's comment fell on deaf ears, Alora kept on digging and digging. Walna could tell by the way she was aggressively throwing the axe into the ground that she was angry. 

"Alo-" 

"What is it!?", Alora outburst. She dropped the axe in the sand. 

"I was just telling you that you won't find anything there.", she said, "You are in direct sunlight. The stones are deeper in the desert when in direct sunlight." 

Alora picked up the axe and continued digging. 

"You're such a stubborn bitch you know that right?", Walna whispered. 

Alora heard what she said underneath her breathe. She put down the axe and walked up to Walna. She held her head up and looked her in the eyes. 

"You are supposed to be a fairy right?", Alora said sarcastically, "Where the fu-ck are your wings? I thought what made you people special was your wings. So before you worry about what I'm doing worry about your fucking self and stay out of my way." 

"I'm just trying to help." 

"I don't your need help and I don't need you now leave me alone please I'm begging you." 

The guards saw the heated exchange from a distant. Two of the guards came rushing.

"Is there a problem here inmates?", the guard asked.

Alora and Walna gave each other the eye. Alora picked up her axe and continued digging in the sand. Walna walked away with her head down. The guards left the scene and returned to their posts.  

The day was done, the guards had rounded up all the inmates from the yard. They did their scheduled routine surveillance of the entire prison from top to bottom, inside and out. Every prisoner was sitting in their cell waiting for lights out.

Alora was laying on her bed thinking about Jade. She was plotting on the ways she was going to kill her when she came in eleven days. She enjoyed her getting lost in her fantasy of her having Jade's blood coated all over her hand. 

She then turned her attention to Walna. 

She was wearing a white and Alora could see the fresh blood stains coming from her back. The vest was nearly trenched with her blood. Alora turned to the other side of the bed pretending like she didn't see anything. 

Walna got on her bed and laid their in silence. Several guards with bats in their hands came to their cell banging and screaming, at the forefront is the guard from earlier in the day. 

"Get down now you scum!", one of the guards shouted on the top of his lungs, "Get down you fairy scum!" 

 Walna got off the bed and the guards had surrounded her. 

The guard from earlier walked into the circle they had formed in the compact cell. 

"The problem with you fairies is that you don't see the world like the way the rest of us do.", he said, "You stand all high and mighty above everyone else you believe that you are special." 

He struck her knees with the bat, she fell on her knees. She was face to face with him and she could see the anger in his eyes. He hit her across the face and blood spewed out of her mouth, staining the concrete floor. She looked back at him and her mouth was trenched with blood. Her once pearly white teeth were coated in her blood. 

Alora watched every moment of it she had the spontaneous urge to help her, try to fight them off but that was a death wish and she knew it. So she watched hopelessly. 

"To the box you go.", the guard said. 

The other guards roughed her up and wrapped her hands around a chain. The chain was wrapped tightly and was cutting off the blood flow to her hands. 

They dragged her out of the ceil with her knees scrapping against the concrete.

The ringleader of the group shut the cell door and was about to leave. He turned his attention to Alora.

"If you even think about telling anyone about what you saw here tonight.", He said, "I will guarantee you that you will never see anything again." 

He stormed off and joined the rest of the guards. Alora laid in her bed in silence but her heart was racing. She wondered what they were going to do to her. She never knew much about the box but she knew deep down that she had every right to be worried about Walna.