Number 501 (Needs Editing)

Hope

I suggested that we all head back to that cave that we saw earlier. Though it would take a lot of energy to climb up the entire cliff again, it was something we had to do. We all went one after the other, grasping ledges on and off and pulling ourselves up to the top and rolled onto it deeply breathing. Eventually though we all got to the top and made our way back to the small cave that fortunately had enough room inside for all of us. I crawled inside, the insect was still wrapped inside the tank top. We all got inside and just laid in there thinking to ourselves. We were full of water but we still had a matter that we weren't thinking about, and every day it was becoming more and more of a problem. Food. Sooner we were going to have to discuss what we split, if we end up finding anything. 

"What are we going to eat?" I asked the rest of us. Once our problem of no water was no longer a problem, food came into the picture. The real question was what were going to do to even find food. 

"We could eat that little creepy crawler that's in the shirt." Jaquil offered the idea.

"I'm not eating that disgusting thing!" 304 threw a fit about. 

"Why? What's wrong with it?" Jaquil asked 304.

"Did you see what it did to Allice? Could you imagine that same exact thing but inside your mouth? It's a death sentence! Besides, it's probably filled with poison."

Jaquil assumed that 304 was most likely correct about it. There most likely was mass amounts of poison inside that thing. I still wasn't even sure what I was going to do to the little bastard. I'm sure the time would come eventually though. 

"Who do you think those people were? They didn't sound like guards or soldiers of any kind." I asked the rest of them. We discussed this before for a brief amount of time but I thought it was best if we talked about it in greater detail.

"I honestly don't think those were guards. You're right, they didn't sound like any guards I've heard before. I think others have escaped and made a life out here for themselves." Jaquil stated his opinion. Though none of us thought it was even possible to believe that people could escape. But stating that, I then remember that we escaped as well. We're definitely not the smartest people there is in that entire prison. I guess it wouldn't be surprising if others had figured out a way as well.

304 butted in and began stating his theory, "Don't you get it? When a new prisoner comes in, Reckt tells everyone that no one has ever escaped. You don't tell your prisoners that there have been a lot of break outs. Or else they would try to break out as well. So Reckt tells everyone they haven't that way they don't think there's even a small chance of escaping. And even if they do cross the idea, they believe there's nothing else out here so why does it matter? They're going to die out here anyway."

We all stopped talking and thought about was 304 was saying. It did make sense. That would be a good reason. If I owned a prison, I would want to take advantage of the prisoners brains, possibly by telling them that no one has escaped the prison before. Making them think that they'll be here forever. Well we won't. We won't be there forever. We escaped and we're going to find a way to get off this god forsaken planet. One way or another. 

"Do you think we'll die?" I asked the rest of them.

Jaquil stayed silent at first, he tried to mumble a few things but realized that we might actually die. And he didn't want to make a promise he couldn't keep. I totally understood where he was coming from. After all, I was stuck out here with him and I was the one who asked the question. By this time, I had three possibilities that could play out in the next few days. One, we starve to death. Two, Reckt finds us and sends us back to her little play pen of a prison. Or three, we find hope. Now what could hope be you might ask? I don't really know. I'll tell you one thing that would help us in this situation. A rocket ship! Yeah, a rocket ship. So we could launch ourselves out of this godforsaken planet. I can only dream, right? Yeah. And that's actually what I was doing, I had found myself fast asleep after asking that question. 

By the time I was awake the others were as well. "What time is it?" I asked the rest of them waiting for an answer until I realized that none of us had a clock on us. They both looked at me like I was an idiot. "What? You can't tell what time it is by looking at the sun?" I lectured them.

"No. Can you?" 304 rebutted but I had no answer, mostly because I didn't know how.

"You've got a point." I said back and crawled out of the small hole we found ourselves sleeping in for the entire night. 

"So what are we doing today?" Jaquil asked the rest of us, we both just looked at him and shrugged our shoulders. It was weird not being locked up in a prison facility like we always had been. Forced to do certain jobs around the prison. Locked up forever. Out here we were free and a part of us didn't like it. It just wasn't us anymore. Our life had completely became life on the inside, and now we were out. 

Jaquil and 304 followed me out and we walked towards the cliff, staring down at the water below. "Well, I'll tell you one thing. I'm thirsty as hell." Jaquil said rubbing his stomach. He went to start climbing down the cliff and make his way down to the pond again when I saw from a distance the people that we almost ran into last night. I stopped Jaquil in an instant and told 304 to get down. We watched as we laid down on the sand ground, our heads sticking out from the cliffs. 

"What do we do?" 304 asked nervously.

"I say we take number three." I told them as I stood up. I could tell they were both shocked and confused by what I meant and what on earth I was doing, but we had to take a chance. A chance at hope.

"Hey! Over here!" I screamed at the top of my lungs. My voice carried all the way down to the bottom where the few people who were down there caught us in their vision. They waved, and yelled for us to come down. We all looked at each other and smiled, thinking it was hope.