Haven's Shell

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Rose woke and found herself in a dark room with a horrible stench. She felt dizzy and her head hurt a lot. she stood from where she laid on the floor and tried to make out her surroundings. At the far corner of the room, there was a bed and a small table, she looked up and noticed a window hidden behind dark dirty curtains, she drew them back and found out it was dark out, which meant she must have been out for quite a long time.

She walked to the door and tested the handle, when she opened it easily, she was shocked. She didn't think it would be that easy for her to escape, at this thought, a sense of hope filled her and she continued out the door. The hallway she found herself in was dark too, and Rose felt she hadn't seen light for some time now.

She noticed the hallways were divided into two, and so without thinking much, she continued down the left. Every step she took, no matter how slow she went, she still felt a sharp pain at the back of her head, still, she continued, searching in the dark for any light at the end of the tunnel.

After she had made about three turns now, she finally saw a small light by her right, and she concluded that if she made this final turn in the L-shaped corridor, she would either see people or a chance to escape. When she realized, she was likely going to see people more, she panicked.

What if those men were there? What if there were more like them? And she hadn't even seen their faces, so she didn't exactly know who she was supposed to be running away from. She leaned forward a bit, peeping slightly, and sure enough, there was a door, placed on the left side of the wall.

She immediately started the calculation in her head, the door was far from where she was, and if she was to run, she would have to turn and she wouldn't know if to go inside the room the door led to. Rose drew her head back sharply when she heard voices coming from the other side, her heart was beating so fast, and it didn't help that her head was equally pounding at the same rate.

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"Seargent Thomas is his name, but he goes by Sylvester"

"So, Sylvester is his real name, I assume?"

"It may seem that way, sir" Valice nodded and took note of that in his head. He continued the clicking of his tongue he did when he was thinking, and put on his leather gloves, tightening the straps. He moved out of his chair and walked past the made-man in front of his office, out the door, while said made-man followed closely behind with a briefcase.

Valice knew he should control his temper for the sake of a lot of people in this building, so when he walked into his small but very effective torture chamber, and the bloodied man in the chair sent him a mocking smirk, he returned it and took a seat in front of him.

"I guess you got tired of sending men here to do your dirty work?" the man smiled showing very bloody thirty-two.

Valice smiled, "unfortunately, they never get the job done, you're very strong-willed Misael, I'll have to commend you"

"it's good you know you're wasting your time, kill me already, at least you can get that right"

Valice was very much amused, but what this man did not know, is that he could stay here all day if it meant finding out where the bastard that had cut off all his deals in the seven countries where they were made, was.

"I'll surely kill you, but I can make it less painful if you don't aggravate me" Valice calmly said. He signaled for his briefcase to be brought over to him, and he popped the clicks open, removing the pistol in it and shutting it back. He placed the gun on his lap.

Looking back at the man in front of him, he smiled,

"Do you know Sylvester Thomas?"

The man cackled, "Valice Seylour Ey? you're a quick one, here I was thinking you would continue the procedure of asking me who I work for" he laughed again