Escape: Friendship in Dark Places

"Well this stinks. I hope dad's not worried about me. I bet Nexus is laughing it up. I bet he's in my room right now messing with my stuff! Getting popcorn kernels all over everything! Oh when I get out he better not have ruined my chamber! Okay, calm down there Lilly. Maybe Sarihash is keeping that little shadow fiend in check? " Lilian Nastasia said as she tried to calm down from her flare up.

"GGRRRRRAAAAAHHHHHHHH! I WISH TO GO BACK TO MY MASTER NOW" Lillith was extremely pissed. "I HAVE TO GO TO MY MASTER!!! MY MASTER NEEDS MEEEEEEEEEEE!" Lillith was yelling at the top of her lungs walking around the cell stomping the ground.

"Hey! Pipe down over there will you? I'm trying to calm myself down over here!" Lilian Nastasia let out back at the voice of the other person.

One of the creatures was talking to itself. Anderna watched it while scratching her ears until she heard the other one shouting. What was wrong with this purple thing? Why was it so angry. “Hey stop shouting. You’re doing me a frighten.” As Anderna approached the cell the girl inside could see that this hellhound tended to rest on her hind legs with her front paws resting on the ground. She could walk bipedally but tended to go on all fours for more traction. She would almost look like a normal canine Mobian if it wasn’t for red cracking patterns in her skin and the excessively dusty fur. The hellhound wore some simple cloths for modesty and carried a keyring at her waist.

"If your could eat her, that'd be great.I'm more of a dog person anyways." Lilian said as she tried to cozy up to the canine like hellhound.

"YOU WANT ME TO STOP SHOUTING? WHY! I'M TRAPPED AND THAT GIVES ME A FRIGHTEN. I WANT OUT!" Lillith was pacing around the cell even faster. She looked angry and a little scared. She always feared being trapped and her being a cell was really getting to her."RELEASE MEEEEEEEEE!" She heard what the other demon said and she turned. "YOU WANT THE HOUND TO DIE?! BECAUSE I'M MADE OF INK AND EATING ME WOULD BE POISON! "

"Damnation! If it gets you to be silent, then by all means. I am trying to figure out a way to get out of here. If I could just get a lifetime or two of peace maybe I could figure a way to get us both out! However, this requires you to keep your mouth shut!" Lilian said a she grabbed unto her horns to cover them up from the noise of Lilith, seeing as her mystical horns were the closet thing she had to ears.

“I do not eat the prisoners. I am a good girl and good guard dogs guard not eat. So I’m watching you two punks for any funny business. Then I will get tasty bones for eating.” She trotted away from the attempted petting, not that he didn’t want the affection.

"Well that failed." Lilian said as she took a deep sigh.

She looked around her surroundings to observe them and try to figure out a way to break free when the coast was clear. As she scanned around the room the demonette thought of every possible thing she could think of. Somehow there had to be a way to negate the stasis runes and allow her to attempt to free herself.

Lillith gave took a deep breath before lowering her voice. "F-Fine. though I don't think there is any way out. I mean unless you know how to deactivate runes" She watched the hound walk away. She started to laugh."Did you really think that was going to work? PFFFFTTT! I'm pretty sure hellhounds know all the little tricks demons do to get out." Lillith laughed a little more before turning to the hound. "Hey smart dog, do you have a book I can read or something? Ooooo I have an even better question. Do you know when I am supposed to be released?"

“I have a pamphlet for you.” Anti-magic paper with anti-magic runes was printed with an informational guide to the prison. Some magical creatures would be rehabilitated. Rituals would be performed on any creature submitting to rehabilitation. These rituals would help eliminate bad behaviors and cravings. Creatures who would submit also gained special privileges but would also be subjected to more scrutiny to root out deceivers. Eventually they would be patrolled, by the deity of parole.

Anyone breaking rules would be subject to solitary, from days to years to centuries. The worst offenders would be subject to the Pit of Tartarus. These offenders would be chained and tossed into the depths of the prison of Titans. Nothing returns from that abyss.

Two meals a day were served in a common room depending on the creature's threat level. Creatures who could only eat souls would be fed with imitation souls. Creatures on good behavior would be allowed time in the “yard” between meals. This yard was a series of ruins so cursed that sunk through the world of the living into the world below.

Once the paper was fully read it would catch on fire and burn itself to dust.

"See you have to be a good girl like me to be freed." She proudly puffed up her chest. She failed to understand the irony that he'd never be leaving this prison no matter how good she was.

Lillith took the pamphlet from the hound and read it carefully, making sure she didn't forget any detail. When she finished reading the paper, the paper turned to fire. "Well I guess I won't be able to read that again." She looked at the ground for a moment. "So you're only going to let me out if I... submit? There is no other way. Hmmmm... " she sat down on the floor and really thought about things. (I either stay here forever or I go all goody goody... I don't like those options but... I really need to go back to my master so...) "Hey hell hound, I submit. I don't want to be here anymore. " She looked at the other demon. "Are you going to submit it or are you just going to stay there looking around your cell?"

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"I don't submit to anyone, I serve my father for his sake, and my own." Lilian responded to the ink demon as she sat down and closed her eyes while still trying to formulate a plan.

"You go there and be their lap cat.I will try to figure out a better way than giving up and being their bootlick."She sat there and thought and thought. The thoughts in her mind ran through as she tried to figure out anything that could be valuable for her in her surroundings. "No fortress is impervious." Lilian recited in her head as she contemplated on her next move.