Mikael Woke up confused, he looked around and could not recognize where he was. All around him were  children and old men in ragged dirty clothes, but he couldn’t see any women. The last thing he remembered was saving is little brother.

First i need to find out where i am. Mikael thought as he looked around. He tried to speak with the old man next to him, but he only looked confused and said something in a language Mikael could not understand. It was a  language that he never had heard before.

He knew some phrases and curse words in many different languages, but none of them sounded like this.

A bell started ringing suprising him, he watched every person around him starting to move towards the door, Mikael decided to follow while trying to figure out were he was.

He started to look around the room and saw beds made of straw and filthy quilts, his mind was raising were am i? what has happened to my brother? this almost seem like a refugee camp.  

Suddenl he heard shouting, and outside the room he saw a tall ugly muscular man, in shiny armour with evil eyes shouting to the people walking out of the room with him.

Mikael could see the fear in the eyes of everyone around him as they scurried to form a line.

He was looking at what was going on around him, trying to figure out what was happening, when suddenly he felt a burning sensation on his back and fell with one knee to the ground.

He looked back to see the same ugly man with the evil eyes looking at him holding a whip. Mikael didn’t have time to stand up before another hit with the whip landed on his back and his vision bacame blurry.

The evil looking ugly man started shouting.

The old man he had tried to talk to before, came running to help him back on his feet,  then he guided him towards the others who already stood in line.

The group of people started to walk in a line and Mikael was held up by the old man as they followed from behind.

After around 30 mins of walking the group stopped, after looking around Mikael saw a big mine and people with baskets full of rock exiting the mine while people with empty baskets entered the mine. The people all around him were given a basket and mining tools.

While looking at the pick in his hand, he realized they were all slaves, and his hand holding the pick was somehow different it was smaller and rougher.

What is happening? yesterday i woke up in my own bed, today i woke up in a different body, in a slave camp. Somewhere nobody understands me or i them. Mikael thought as he was starting to feel dizzy and fell on another youth that quickly pulled him up.

He couldn’t wrap his head around the change in his life. Before he woke up, he was a normal sixteen year old boy, living in a peaceful country with a loving family. Today he was in a younger boys body, a slave who coulden’t communicate and didn’t know anything.

He was pushed down the mine by another man wearing armour, shouting something Mikael couldn’t understand.

Mikael started working, he knew if he didn’t work he wouldn’t eat, he might not even live through the day. He started hacking on the wall and picking up rocks trying to calm his min and think.

Escape, that was Mikaels plan, but he didn’t know anything about where he was, what he needed was information. Their language, he needed to learn their language.

Another bell rang and the people walked out of the mine, so Mikael followed, as before the people was lining up. Not wanting to repeat what had happened earlier, he quickly got in line with the others.

The line of people was each given a wooden bowl including him. They were all going towards a tent for food, he saw a fat man serving everyone somekind of mash. When Mikael got his bowl with mash he decided to sit close to and listen to the other slaves talk, trying to grasp something.

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He was sitting there listening, when the bell rang again.

Everyone gave back their bowl and started moving towards the mine. Mikael quickly ate the whole bowl of mash thinking, five minutes is all we get to eat this awful shit. Then he followed all the others into the mine to continue working.

Mikael decided moved closer to the slaves in the mine, trying to listen to them speaking while he hacked away at the wall and picking up rocks. This continued to nightfall, then the group of slaves walked back to the slave camp, before getting one last meal out of the same mash and a piece of some kind of hard bread.

Back at the slave camp Mikael continued to listen to the other slaves talking, this continued day after day, week after week. Finally he could understand somethings but he couldn’t yet speak the language.

After months of working in the mines listening to the slaves, he had learned that they were all taken as prisoners of war. The young boys and the old men were taken to work in the mines, the stronger men was taken to something called the pit. In the pit they would fight each other for the enjoyment of the rich and wealthy nobles. The women was taken as slaves to be sold as whores, and the pretty ones to pleasure the high ranking members of the military and the wealthy nobles.

The country he was taken from was called Earthland, and was envied by many countrys for all their natural resources. The kindom of Abolein known for their military might was on of them, and where he found himself at this moment.

Months of gathering information had served him well, he had also learned the mine was a copper mine. Anyone who found a ore would be rewarded with something they wanted, it cold be food wine women or something else.

He knew that copper salts makes a bluish green color in humid climates, so he went deeper in the mine and found what he was looking for, he then ran outside to one of the guards.

The guard shouted “what are you doing outside the mine you filthy slave“ Mikael looked up with a slightly bowed head and said “come“ and gesticulated for the guard to follow and ran back inside the mine.

The guard was clearly irritated, but followed anyway and when Mikael showed him the ore, a smile appeared on the guards face and he was clearly happy, as he also would benefit from Mikaels find.

After the find was reported. Mikael was called to the office of the mine overseer, as he entered he saw a ugly short fat man sitting at the table eating a feast for at least ten people.

Mikael couldn’t hide is hunger when he smelled the food infront of him, The fat old man looked at him saying “Do you want some food? Or do you want something else?“ Mikael was almost drooling over the food, but what he needed wasn’t food he was in need of something else and said “book“

“you want a book? Not food or women?“ the fat man asked.

“yes, book“ Mikael replied.

“You don’t say much hmm, well you can pick any book on those shelves“ The fat man said while pointing towards some shelves filled with books.

He then went to pick out a book, any book would do, but he picked one of the thickest books turned around bowed and said “thank, you“

The fat man looked at him threw a chicken leg, or something that looked like a chicken leg on the floor and said “you can have that if you eat it from the floor like a dog“ and started laughing.

Mikael looked at the meat and felt his hunger before he could say no, he was already on the floor eating. As he ate he could hear the fat man laughing and calling him names.

Mikael thought to himself, soon You will die, and I will be the one laughing.