18 || 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞

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Then come with me

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Then come with me

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Ray carefully and eagerly observed the camera in his hands with a big smile on his face.

"Hey Mom." Ray called. Isabella turned to him with a smile on her face as he pushed the button, taking a picture of her. The film slid out of the bottom of the device and the boy grabbed it and began to observe again. At first, it only showed complete darkness.

"I see. So nothing shows up here at first."

"Your last reward is a camera, huh?" [Name] asked while she observed the picture next to him as well.

"I was just curious about how these things work. Since I've only ever seen photographs and cameras in books. If I were greedy I would've wanted to develop them." Ray then seemed startled at the picture, which began to form into a clear picture of Isabella.

"Wow, it looks like you froze a moment in time!"

Ray stood up from his seat and grabbed his camera.

"About that other thing," Ray asked, "Can it wait 'till after lunch?"

"Yes," Isabella replied, "That should be fine."

[Name] then made her way out of the room to the hallway, with Ray following behind her.

"Hey [Name]," Ray called.

"Hm?" [Name] turned to see the camera pointed at her. A bright light began to flash, in which the girl knew what he was doing. A smirk crawled onto her face while she also flinched a little, as well as sticking out her hand in an attempt to stop him. But it was already too late for that. The light soon went away and Ray continued with his stride.

"Hey! What was that?" [Name] ran up to catch up with Ray, who stayed silent.

"Hello?" [Name] called as she began to observe the picture that Ray was holding. It was of her, obviously, but in a defensive position. Her brows were slightly furrowed with a hand out and facing the camera, along with a small smirk.

"Have you had any more of those dreams lately?" Ray asked out of the blue.

"No, I haven't." [Name] answered truthfully. She thought it was weird, but she had no conflict. She didn't want to see Mason again at all.

The bell chimed, signaling that it was midnight. The two made their way to their bedrooms in silence.

"Night, [Name]."

"Night, Ray."

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The kids all gathered around outside playing with one another. Ray took out his camera and snapped a picture of the sight. Emma, Norman, Don, Gilda, and [Name] all walked behind him, catching his attention as he turned around.

"Let's review." He said. "During the free time we have after eating lunch, we will be distracting Mom. Meanwhile, you two will inspect above the wall. Don and Gilda, stand outside where you can see the second floor window to the South. Stay alert. I'll signal to you if we're not able to distract Mom."

[Name] chimed in, "And that's when you two tell the others to cancel the inspection."

"According to our original plan," Ray continued, "There are six days left. But we have the two and half months 'till I get shipped out. So if things go wrong, we can bail. We do everything in secret, and pretend to be controllable." Don and Gilda both nodded while their attention was caught by the sound of their names.

"Don! You should come play with us! Gilda, you too!"

"Sure!" Don answered. "Are you ready to play tag." The two began to run to the giggling kids.

"Ray, [Name], we need to talk." They both looked over to Norman and Emma, who had worried looks on their faces.

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"What? Krone found out that we can break the tracking devices?" Ray yelled at the inconvenience as Emma and Norman both nodded.

"We should move up the escape," Norman proposed. "How soon can you break them." Ray stared at them with wide eyes before suddenly giving in. He pulled his drawer and pulled out his camera. He aimed it at Emma and Norman, who were confused. Ray pressed the button, which flashed a bright light at the two, causing them to flinch. Emma caused a riot out of the impact it had on her eyes. Norman chuckled at her reaction.

"What even was that?" Emma asked.

Ray held out the camera, "With this, I've got all the pieces that I need." Norman reached out to grab the camera. "I can break them whenever." [Name] stared at the picture next to Ray, waiting for it to form. Once she saw the final picture, a chuckle escaped from her mouth. The sound of [Name] laughing, made a smirk crawl onto Ray's face. Emma then ran over to see the picture as well.

"Look at your face." Ray sneered.

Emma whined, "Hey!" In which [Name] chuckled even more.

"This is quite a double-edged sword, isn't it?" The three turned to face Norman. "Are we going to break the tracking devices and escape first? Or is Krone going to find the evidence and turn us in before we have the chance to do that?"

"Don't worry," Ray assured, "I handled it."

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Knock knock.

Ray hit his knuckled against the door as [Name] waited behind him. The door creaked open to reveal Isabella.

"Are you ready?" Ray asked. "Time to switch stuff out." Isabella simply nodded in response.

As the three walked amongst the hallways, Isabella spoke up out of the blue.

"I got rid of her." The two kids abruptly stopped, knowing exactly what she meant by those words. "I removed Krone from the equation." She had a hidden smirk on her face. [Name] intrusively began to run to Krone's room while Ray followed behind her. [Name] slammed the door open to reveal a dark and empty bedroom. Ray caught up, and began to slowly walk in the dark room. Isabella caught up with the two, who had wide eyes at the sight. Their mother put one hand on each of their shoulder and leaned in to whisper between them.

"Know why she's gone? Because I didn't need her." Isabella removed her hands from their shoulders and stood up straight as [Name] turned to face her with the exact same face.

She clasped her hands together.

"And you two are next. Our deal is official last over, as of right now."

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