Ashe was left alone in the dark room for atleast an hour. When the door finally opened, it was not much of a change, the dim torch lights in the tunnel providing dimming light. For that reason, Ashe likely was not able to determine any feature of the large figure who came in toward her. A thick, large hand siezed her by the arm and she was hauled onto her feet like a doll. She was led out into the tunnel system of the den for what probably felt like hours until finally, they came to a large wooden door. The troll escorting Ashe shoved the heavy door open and a circular dome like room was shown, torches circling the room to add abit more lighting, though it was still fairly dim.<br/><br/>On a throne made from bones, wood and decorated with antlers sat Rotgnager. At his foot, sitting on it's head, was the mighty hammer that had been carried for him in the forest above. He made a motion with his hand and suddenly Ashe's clothing was torn from her, but she was outfitted with leather to cover her female parts. It was a simple loin cloth with only a strip of leather across her breasts. If that broke, then too bad for her. The troll on the throne forcefully said "Your clothing hurts my eyes." Ashe may not have understood it, but Rotgnager was essentially saying that her clothing irritated him and sickened him, it didn't hurt his eyes. In other words, he was telling her that he was disgusted with her human nature. Clothing was more or less a sign of humans, which was a red flag to the trolls, who wore only loincloths. Ashe had been outfitted with a female troll's style of clothing in an attempt to bring her down to a level where Rotgnager could deal with her and not want to beat her into a bloody mess. Making her appear more trollish could infact save her.<br/><br/>As it was, Ashe was still pretty well exposed, atleast in the sense she was showing more skin than before. "Why are you in<em>my</em>forest?" the troll said coldly. It wasn't his forest, in a sense, as he was far from his place of origin. However, he did hold a sense of ownership over it. A strong spirit of nature, Rotgnager was essentially stealing this territory for nature in defiance of mankind, to show that in the end it was trollkind who would prevail. Guns could not stop a troll. Nothing really could but a single hammer-wielding god. Only the lord of thunder could stop a troll. However, because of the christianization, the thunder god let trolls run rampant in response to those who turned their backs on the old gods for this new<em>imposter</em>god. Granted, trolls didn't like humans as it was, but being of a certain religion could determine if a person lived or not.