InsaneJournal

Tuesday: January 29, 2008
Who: Zach, Lucinda, and Hayate [Narrative]
When: Morning
Where: Town Hall’s dungeon.
What: The Kitano family is pissed off.

With everything going on lately in his private life, Zach couldn’t figure out if it was his own fault or someone else’s that he hadn’t found out about Hayate’s arrest until today. Well, he heard about an arrest that happened the evening before on Sunday, but it didn’t cross his mind that it could have possibly been Hayate and no name was mentioned. Just an arrest. Zach didn’t even hear the charges because apparently there weren’t any official ones yet.

Now, it was Tuesday morning and his great uncle and friend, Hayate, was the one locked up. He immediately told his parents about it, and they all decided to go to Town Hall together to see Hayate. Kelsey demanded to know what was going on, which caused quite a ruckus with the guards. Meanwhile, Zach and Lucinda headed to the dungeon to speak with Hayate themselves.

It was dark in the dungeon, and the air was cold and wet. Zach wrapped his arms around himself and walked the length of the corridor to the only occupied cell down there. It was guarded by two Elven guards. Inside was Hayate. Before Zach could speak, his mother beat him to it.

“Oh my god,” Lucinda said, bringing her hand to her mouth. It fell to her side a moment later. “What the hell are they doing down here?” She stepped up to the bars and extended her hand past them. “Hayate . . . ”

Zach watched as Hayate slowly sat up from the bed and walked over to them. Hayate took Lucinda’s hand, holding it firmly. Zach could tell his uncle didn’t want to be here. “Lucinda,” Hayate greeted her. “Zach,” he added.

“We’ll get you out of here,” Zach told him.

“Good luck,” Hayate said. “It doesn’t look like they want to release me.”

“What have they charged you with?” Lucinda asked Hayate, wrapping both of her hands around his hand.

“Assault, battery, kidnapping,” Hayate rattled off, “and God knows what else.”

“That’s ridiculous,” Zach immediately replied, feeling the heat rising on his face. “Why would they charge you with those things? You wouldn’t in a million years do that to anybody—”

“Not according to them,” Hayate said.

“It’s bullshit!”

“It’s politics.”

A quiet descended upon the group of people, and Lucinda gripped Hayate’s hand even more tightly. “We will get you out of here. Didn’t you request a lawyer?”

“Yes, but they’ve yet to supply me with one.”

Lucinda nodded her head. “I will make sure you get one. We’ll be back shortly. I need to make sure my husband isn’t causing a scene upstairs with the guards . . . ” Lucinda bid Hayate farewell and placed her hand on Zach’s shoulder to lead him out of the dungeon. Zach waved goodbye to Hayate and turned around to follow his mother.

They were going to get him out of here as soon as possible.