[Silversnow]

Oh! Right... Thanks for explaining that for silly me. I'll remember that.

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You walk around in the compound, without any particular place to go. You look around yourself constantly for a while, before staring at the ground right in front of you. You think hard about Michael and the Northern Pillar, but you simply get stuck between your own theories and thoughts. You moan about that endlessy before you find yourself knocked to the ground. Your eyes are clamped shut, and it feels like someone is sending electric impulses through your body, keeping you in pain but unable to move. You try to scream but can't. After a while (could have been hours or minutes, you have no idea) the pain eases and you feel that you are able to move again. You slowly open your eyes and see a half-solid blue wall. You realise you have walked right into it and embarrased, you get up and brush the dust off you. A thing comes towards you. It looks more like a lizard acting human than a human. It shakes its head when it sees you.
"Aaah, sso I sssee you have tried the hard way?" he snickers. "Well, ssome can't learn anything before it hurtsss them."
You try to yell at it, but your voice simply doesn't cooperate.
"You can't passs without one of thesssse." it says and hold out its hand. You see a simple gold bracelet around its wrist. You swallow hard and try to talk again.
"Where... can I... get one of... those?" you ask. Every word feels like knives being pulled out from your throat.
"You can't jusst buy it! Sssomeone hasss to get you one, and you musssst have a reassson to have it." it hisses and quiets down for a while. "And no, a desssire to crossss the border issn't reassson enough."
"What are you... some kind of guard?" you ask, annoyed with him. He grins and nods. You consider forcing him into clearing a way out of the compound for you, but you don't know how many of those around you are guards. You turn to him again.
"Fine. Then I'll go fix a bracelet, missster guard. And when I'm back, I'll teach you sssome mannerssss..." you hiss at him before you leave. You can feel him glaring at you from behind. When you've gotten out of sight, you punch a wall while screaming. You don't know anyone except Mike, and to get to Mike you have to leave the compound, and to leave the compound you have to get Mike to give you a bracelet. You kick a rock. And another one. You mutter to yourself as you walk down the streets, this time looking out for blue walls. You pass a group of men, talking quietly to each other. When you've already forgotten about them, you feel a hand on your shoulder. When he spins you around you feel the stink of cheap booze against your face. A man grins at you while he seems to look at your ears.
"'eiya old chum...?" he sludders, all the time breathing heavily on your face. You get a bad feeling.
"Yes?"
"Yeeh... yer one of 'em elven types, ye are... aye??"
But before you can answer, he turns to the men that's slowly coming against you.
"Yes sir, he sure ish one of them damn pointy earsh...." he barks and laughs. You back away from him and see how he almost falls. When he regains some of his balance, you see him holding a rusty old knife while grinning eavily at you. The men behind him carries various objects.
"Shouldll we teash him how welcum hish kinds always are...?" the first man asks. The men behind him shouts various things at you. The drunk leader leaps at you with a snarl that's more like a gurgle. You take a step to the side and watch him land with a thump. You then try to back away from the crowd. You start running when a glass bottle hits the wall beside you, some of the pieces cutting into your face. You have no idea if you can fight them, maybe someone taught you that during the blank weeks, but you don't want to stay and find out that you're wrong. You hear a whooshing sound and something hits the back of your head. You stumble forwards while small stars dance infront of your eyes. That was enough for the thugs to catch you.
You feel a steel pipe crush your arm, and you scream while another one sweep your feet off the ground. You land with your face up, and see their faces laugh at you while hitting you with all they have. No one seems to use anything sharp.
The various attacks soon becomes a red mist of blood and pain for a long time, before all sounds die away, along with the pain. You are aware they are still beating you, but it's like you don't mind anymore. With a snap, you return to normal, just in time to see a knife, raised over your chest in a dramatic pose. You grab the man's wrist, and twitches is. He screams in surprise and pain before you steal his knife and, almost gently, makes a long cut over his stomach. The mans scream soon drowns in the roars of all other men around you. You turn to the other side and stabs a man in his leg before getting up to flee.

You don't know how you escaped the thugs, all you are aware of is the pain that shoots through you every time you take a step. You try to find a doctor, but don't know what to look for. A movement catches your sight, you see two men are checking the leader. You walk towards them and they seem so be slightly surprised when they see your... condition. One of them quickly starts to examine you while asking a lot of questions.
"Who did this to you?"
"His gang."
"Oh, so you knew this guy?"
You are about to say no when you see something shimmering on the leader's wrist. A bracelet. You wonder for a moment if you should say yes, and 'take care' of him, or no and walk away with a clean coinscience. The doctor awaits your answer.
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Argh! So much writing... I hope you understood the drunk guy and stuff... *waits*