<div class="floatright"><div align="center">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/2/20/Slave_Alianda_portrait.jpg)<br/>Alianda Torak (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=297512.msg14569950#msg14569950)<br/>Human Fighter 3<br/></div></div><br/>Alianda moved further to the side as the first guard seemed quite smitten with Masako.  Surely he would get into the cell and they could all together overpower him.  Then it would be a matter of trying to get the shock collars off and escaping for good.  Unfortunately her quick search for anything that could be used as a weapon failed to produce something that she could use.  They'd have to get the guard's dagger and whatever else they could manage along the way.<br/><br/>As the guard moved toward the door to the cell Alianda hovered behind and to the side of him.  It was well that she was out of the immediate pathway as the arrival of the second guard surprised them all.  She stepped back, head down as if she were a docile slave as indeed Alianda was still fully bound.  She watched as the two guards started to argue but her eyes were really caught by the key.  It had snapped off, unusable in the lock but it could be fixed.  More exactly it could be Mended.  Mending had been the first little cantrip that Alianda had so painstakingly learned as a girl under the tutelage of her wizard mother.  It let her help around the house and not it might get them out of this situation.  Unfortunately she was bound, gagged and had no... lodestone.  If the guards used it as a battery for their control rods then perhaps she could acquire some.  Now of course to be freed.  Surely one of the women already freed could untie her and then...<br/><br/>Moving swiftly Alianda stepped to the side of the cage and bumped against it.  She pointed with her tied hands to the pieces of the key and then thrust her hands back behind her through the bars.  Surely one of the women would untie her bonds.