Stone that managed that worn and old feeling to it. Old black iron rings set into the wall, most dangling chains. Iron cages hanging suspended from the ceiling. Thick iron bars at the door to the cell. Dim and flickering light from the hallway that managed to provide some illumination though details were hard to make out.
The occasional drip of water as it forced its way through stone to land on more stone merely added to that ambiance.
"Where are our clothes, anyway?" asked Nabiki, sitting in some straw.
"How the heck should I know?" asked Ranma, not happy with the situation at all.
"You know, since we are all naked - I'd bet it's that old pervert who did this."
"Grandfather Happosai?" asked Kasumi, managing to cover everything up and look demure while chained by an ankle cuff to the wall and sitting on a straw mat. Not many could pull it off, yet she somehow did.
Ranma gave a tug at his own chain, which linked a cuff on his own right leg to a drain in the center of the floor.
"It looks as though the chain lengths are such that none of us can reach any of the others, except you," said one of the strange girls. "There may be a purpose in that."
"Yes, Ranma's is long enough that he can reach anyone, including that girl in the cage," said Nabiki. "I get the feeling that this is not an accident."
"How come I can't just snap this thing?" said Ranma after straining at the chain briefly.
"How did we get here, Saotome? Magic," said Nabiki as she tried to find a comfortable way to sit. "It's the torture equipment that concerns me."
"What torture equipment?" asked Akane.
Nabiki peered as best she could through the gloom. "I can see through the bars of our cell door. There's a room with what looks like torture equipment over there. Very medievalistic, very painful looking."
"When I get back, that Old Lech is gonna get hurt," promised Ranma.
"Can you come over here?" said the stranger who had spoken earlier. "Maybe you can't break your own chain but you could break someone else's."
Ranma's backside got chilled on the stone before he finally moved, since he'd have to shift his NAKED body around and then go over to a NAKED girl to test this out.
"Pervert. Bet you're getting off on this," muttered Akane.
With no immediate violence commencing, Ranma reached the girl and reached out for her chain.
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