Today I spent nearly all of my time curled up on the only thing protecting my bare skin from the cold metal floor while meditating on my connection to my trees. That connection is growing stronger, but slowly.

My captors are angry and irritated today. I can tell because they were screaming obscenities at who I can only assume is their employer. It seems they got a letter today telling them that they had to stay here with me for a lot longer than they thought they would, which means I have a better chance of escaping. It seems like the citizens are irritated and unruly, they are trying to figure out where I am after I didn’t show up to the party yesterday. My captors seem confident in the citizen's lack of ability to find this place.

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One of my captors decided to relieve his anger on me, by way of beating my defenseless and frail body. It took precious mana to fix the serious injuries, and I can’t afford to fix the less serious ones. I’m glad he was holding back, he obviously doesn’t want to kill me and he could have easily done so there. Before I was going to leave them more or less alone when I managed to escape if I could help it, they are just doing their job after all, but now I need to punish that one at the very least.

I hope I can escape soon, it is taking everything I have not to freak out right now.