It would never fail to be unnerving, traversing the unnatural and convoluted halls of the demonic dungeons that cropped up over the land under mysterious pretenses. The air was stagnant and stale. The creepiness of it was multiplied by the fact I knew this dungeon couldn't have asserted itself into existence more than a few weeks ago. As I reached the end of another antiquated tunnel, a plain but weathered wooden door emerged from the dense, darkness in front of me. I gripped my steel short sword as I heard a voice from beyond the door, but it was a call that perplexed me.
"C-Can anyone even hear me? I need help! I'm stuck..." The voice sounded like the frustrated and desperate cry of a girl in distress. Hazarding the prospect this was an impassioned attempt to lure me into a contraption, I quickly gripped the eroded handle of the door and swung it open. Inside, flickering lights danced across the odd stone pattern of the room, as well as illuminating a figure restrained in the center. A sorcerer in a red, silvery robe was locked into a wooden device that was clamped around her stomach, leaving her upper and lower half dangling uselessly in the air.
"Who's there? Come around to the other side so I can see you," she yelped, kicking her legs a bit more now to indicate distress, her backside facing you. "I've been stuck in here for a while!" The sorceress' face was flushed, and her long, black hair extending down like her arms. Her eyes were wide open and darting around, taking in every detail of the room that she could see. Watching her rump waggle made me pause for a moment as she tried to move her body in vain. As she kicked, glimpses of her underwear flashed when her robe shifted around a little too much. Trying to clear my mind of what I was seeing, I quickly paced over to the other side of the wooden device to face the girl, instead of her posterior.
"My name is Alexander," I introduced myself, looking at the sorceress, who stared back at me with wide, teary eyes. "What's your name?"
She quickly blurted out, "Solaria, fire sorcerer." She added a prideful tone as she announced her title, but it was deflated by the fact that she was trapped inside a pillory. "Now c'mon, free me already! T-This sucks, you know?"
I sat in thought for a moment while the sorcerer squirmed in front of me. This could definitely be an opportunity, to say the least.