Average mans trip to Gensokyo

Escape

25:"You sure about telling him? We don't know if he'll sell us out"

19:"And get what? A pat on the back and then his head on a pike?"

27:"I-If you guys have a way out then I'd way rather take that chance then just sit here and wait to die"

19:"Atta boy"

He pats me on the back

19:"From here on out though, keep it quiet. We can trust everyone in here but I don't know about the people in the other cells"

I watch him as he slowly and silently pushes the nearest bunk bed out of place revealing a large hole in the wall on the other side I can see various boxes on the other side they're covering the hole in a way that you would never see it unless you knew it was there. The hole is big enough so that with a squeeze just about all of us could get through. 19 gets close to my ear and begins to whisper

19:"We're gonna leave soon as we get the chance. We'll need to sneak out of the mansion and even then it's a far shot to the human village. There's no guarantee we'll make it but its a shot"

Then 38 whispers to me

38:"We'll have to be stealthy but, behind those boxes is a storage closet, they barely check in there and they never lock it. If we're careful we can leave through there. Then we just need to sneak out of the mansion and get to the human village, where we'll be safe"

19 replaces the bed making sure to cover the hole with the blanket by draping it off the end. Hope had returned to me, I was ready to leave already, who knows? Perhaps I could even get back to earth somehow. As I often did I had gotten my hopes way up. To me our escape didn't even have a 1% chance of failing we were getting out of here.

27:"S-So how long?"

19:"Said already, soon as we can, boy. Now don't mention it. The walls got ears."

I looked around half expecting the walls to have actual ears. And who can blame me? Not two days ago I would've been put in the nuthouse for talking about vampires and magical lands, I have to expect everything in this damned place it would seem.

Time passes ever so slowly. I had never known doing nothing but waiting took so damn long. 19 is kind but tires of my questions quickly, he told me he was busy and then walked into the corner and sat down. I took that as a hint to shut up.

27:"So do you like... put tally marks in the walls for how long you've been here"

38:"Longest they keep anyone is a few weeks 27, after that we don't taste good nor are we much fun for Flandre."

27:"Oh... ok"

Nobody here seems to want to talk, that or my conversation openers need some serious work. Maybe nobody in here does, but perhaps the other people? I walk towards the far right corner of the cell.

27:"Hey... Hey!"

19s head jerks toward my direction

19:"What in the blazes are you doing!?"

27:"I'm trying to talk to the other people. Y'know from the cells over"

19 as well as the others shoot me looks like I'm a crazy person. And then I clock it. I can only get out of here with the people in this room. If I go making friends it'll be far too hard to leave them to their deaths. I sigh and then go sit on one of the beds. It's not long until I lay down, begging for sleep to take me.

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19:"Up"