I can no longer see.

Sight. A blessed word, a blessed thing. Even now I cannot see the words I am writing. Hcoel is telling me if my writing is good or bad and how to spell things, and only then can she see so well. But I must write this and hide it. I must let someone know what they have done to us.

I miss the cold snow. I miss the chilly winds. Hcoel tells me I once loved to hunt. Hunt. I do not know what that means. She tells me its where one goes out and kills something to eat it.

I'd like to do that to them.

I'm glad Hcoel cannot see well enough to understand that. If she knew she would yell at me. She always said...that...even in our greatest...something...we must keep our honor held high. What is honor?

Hcoel cannot tell me that.

My wrist hurts. The chains are big, and Hcoel tells me my back is bleeding. She's been ripping off cloth from herself and giving it to me and doesn't tell me, but I know she does because I can hear her do it.

Once, when I awoke to find I could not see the glowing...something that hung above me, I was terrified. But I was not alone, to. I could hear the screams of everyone else, blind. Helpless. Hcoel came to me and helped me. She hasn't eaten since we got here and she tells me they put something in our food that made us blind.

When we blindly begged to them to heal us...they said no. Then they put the chains on and ever since we work. Take sharp metal things-pickaxes- and...mine. Build things. We can't see. Only Hcoel can and she's going to have to eat soon or she'll die and then what will we do? She is so important to all of us. She tells us, when they are gone and we are alone and we are huddled together in our cells, what things once looked like, what we once did. I can't remember that though. The food makes me so weak.

She told me that they let us live in with them after things called Nords killed our leader. She says they have tricked us and made us their slaves.

I don't know my name and Hcoel doens't remember. She will die soon I think. She is so skinny.

So tired. So weak. I must rest. Hcoel will watch over me as I sleep.