Where A Friend Is By Your Side

The minister of the elves, Nathaniel, was staring in horror at the head of his deputy, Alter, which the orcs had brought to him on a tray.

Orc Yambul:
"Do you see how hospitable we are? Even though you are a prisoner, we have brought you such an exquisite gift."

The orcs began to giggle and Nathaniel, with tears in his eyes and sadness and anger filling his being, lifted the poor Alter's head off the tray and hugged him.

He remembered the first days when he had entered the realm of Easenna and most of the inhabitants there did not accept him as a foreigner, but Alter welcomed him with open arms and helped him see the sky, forest and sea of Easenna as if He has had memories with them since birth until now.

He gritted his teeth and said:
"Bring me a sword and I will cut off each of your heads."

Yambul went to him and hit him hard in the eye with his fist, so that his eyelids immediately swelled and turned purple.
"Mr. Minister, you should not abuse our kindness."

And he said to his subordinates:
"Tie him to the bed."

The orcs forcibly removed Alter's head from Nathaniel's hands and then took him to the standing bed in the cell and chained his hands and feet to it.

Yambul put on special gloves and took a metal bucket with a door from which the sound of a mouse was coming out from the corner of the cell.

"Heat the bucket with the flame of a torch."

One of the orcs came forward and put the torch fire on the bucket. The bucket became hot and the rat inside felt threatened and attacked Nathaniel's stomach, sinking its sharp teeth into the soft flesh to make an escape route.

Nathaniel screamed in pain and blood spurted from the edge of the bucket, and the mouse quickly chewed and chewed the meat of his stomach and went further and further.

At this moment, Alter appeared in Nathaniel's mind, telling him:
"When a friend is by your side, nothing can stop you from calling a place your home."