N-6"It's something I have to do..." he thought.
"Jack, I have to go. Have to make amends..."
He trailed off.
Jack solemnly nodded his head, and went back into the tent.
Wolfpack Territory
Green Fox did not know how many hours he staggered around this Megablocks-on-earth where the wolfpack lived. Everything was reduced to piles so charred timber and smoking ash. But yet, he was familiar, he always had been, with this place. He picked through the ruins of a charred rum-store and could distinctly make out the smell of a rum fire long passed. Then, he found it, his old haunt:
The Wolf's Head.
He touched the door and it collapsed under him. Inside, was devestation. Everything burnt to a crisp, skeletons littering the floor or slumped on the remains of tables. Behind what was the bar istelf, the corpse of the innkeeper lay. Green Fox rolled him over with his boot. The body lay over a small trap door. Green Fox opened it, thinking:
"It had better be alright... it has to be..."
He extracted a long silver key with the wolfpack symbol at the end. The eyes were set with rubies.
He left the inn. Looking up, he say his target, the Wolfpack Tower. Set on a high pillar of rock, it had survived the fires. He ran towards it, as quickly as he could. Outside, a signpost read:
WOLFPACK TOWER
Prison
This was it.
He unlocked the door and slipped inside. It was dark, dank, and smelt vile. There was a corridor leading down, with doors on both sides. At the end was a staircase, leading to another corridor. He assuned this went on and on ad infinitum. Every door had a name-plate beside it. Most of the cells contained skeletons, or were empty. He ran down the corridors and charged up the staircases, pausing only to check the names written on the doors, finally, he passed one that aroused his interest. The door read:
CELL 12472
J'anrya
This was it. He pushed open the door.It happened to be locked. He shouted:
"J'anrya!? You there!?"
A faint voice sounded back:
"Is that you, Marcus?"
He cringed at the mention of his name.
"Yeah, it's Green Fox here. How do I open this door?"
"How the megablocks should I know?"
"I assumed you would, bearing in mind you live here!"
"I don't know... a key?"
"A key. how inventive of you."
"well, do you have any better ideas?"
"Ah.... no. I'll be right back!"
He ran up the remaining 18 flights of stairs to the very top floor. There was a door at the very end of the very last corridor reading:
COMMISIONER'S OFFICE
The door was strangely unlocked. Green Fox opened the door and drew his sword. The room was empty save for a table laden with gold and silver. He could hear a voice coming from behind a large pile of money.
"So... two ruby goblets plus that silver chalice is worth___"
Green Fox scattered the pile of money from the table.
"Hey! I was counting that..."
He looked up at Green Fox.
"oh... Ah! You! I thought I told you to___"
He drew a sword and knocked the sword from Green Fox's unready hand. Green Fox picked up a large, heavy ruby from the table and___
"Ah! The wolf's eye... Thought I would never see you again... Caused me enough trouble..."
___he battered the commisioner's head in with it. On the desk was a pile of keys. He ran back to J'anrya's cell and, after trying most of them, found the right one. J'anrya looked rather bedraggled and was wearing dirty prison clothes, but she seemed unharmed.
"Well, ...fox... you look different..."
"J'anrya... we have to go... it's Bjarn... he might be..."
"Oh tyco..."
They sprinted out of the tower towards Orion Gate.[/i]