Edge of Creation

A Special Suprise

I made it another day, we stayed with the Moonstars until the morning,
and then their base burned down.
Now, after an encounter with many spitters, a small militia saved us.
I'm starting to get very suspicious, I did not see one woman or child.
If this is a trick, we must find our way out of here, fast.
-Roderick

After we finished our water,another man, a few inches shorter than me, leads us down to a hallway and shows us to our rooms, for he said "You guys can sleep here tonight." I walked in, and I started feeling very dizzy, and so did Annika, Kelly said that it was really hot and she needed to lie down. I knew that something was going on, maybe it was just the lack of water. But until Annika started puking blood out of the window, I knew we had been poisoned."Kelly we need to get out of here no-" I couldn't control myself, my vision went black, and I must have passed out. I awake, to the sound of a knife going through flesh. "Hey, look who's up?" It was a man, a very tall one, in a blood apron, cutting something up, who's voice was speaking. I look left and right, both Annika and Kelly are lying against the wall, they look like they are dead, but I could still see their chests moving up and down, the sign that they are breathing. I realize we are all in a giant cage. "Who are you people? What do you want with us?!" I demand, as I look at the mangled body, I realized the man was chopping up.. A Human?! How could someone do this? Even in these conditions? That man in the forest must have been lying to us, he wasn't on the good side, he was one of those thieves, looking for useless loot, and food. Now, we are stuck in the rats nest. I saw Kelly move, and then flinch, as she just processed what is going on. I put my finger on my mouth, signaling her to not make any noise, and then i flatten my hand, and lower it, telling her to lay back down and close her eyes. The man walk over me, and ties me down on the table, he lifts his knife up, and right before he strikes, a small, very skinny man comes in, "The boss needs to speak to you" he says "Fine, but I'll be back for you" he stabs the knife into the table next to me head. As he walks out, I grab the knife, cut the rope, and get up, and grab a small knife, then I lay down, put the knife under my back, and twist the rope on my wrists, back where they were. He walks back in. "Sorry for the inconvenience, I had something to deal with" The man smirks, a evilish smile. Right before he strikes, I pull the knife from my back, and slash him, across the thigh, he falls to the floor, and I shove the knife in his wrist. I take the Keys from his belt, and I unlock the cage we were in. Kelly jumps out, but Annika is still unconscious, so I pick her up, and we start walking out of the room. "Where are all of our weapons!?" Kelly asks the man, as she starts dragging the knife down his wrist. "Agh!!! They are down the hall! In the main office!! Agh!" The man screams in pain. "Thanks a lot, now, we just need to sneak over there, God knows how many men are out there." We sneak out of the room, and see about a couple dozen men patrolling the halls, but there is a series of rooms that connect to each other, this must have been a hotel. "We just need to get to the office using these rooms, they will get us past without being spotted." Kelly orders, I respond with a simple, 'nod'. We start walking down the rooms, I was surprised nobody was patrolling them, and we get our Knapsacks full of weapons, and we head out, until we realized, we were on the top, of a ten story building. This should be fun. A special surprise, from these thieves themselves.