ALPHA ORION

FOUR

Rey walked out of the room and paused at the doorway to access her surrounding. The long hallway was dimly lit by yellow bulbs randomly placed high on the walls, that she could make out the stone walls that had grime stuck to it. She looked left and right, weighing her options on which path to follow before swiftly jogging down her left in hopes it was the way to the exit.

She walked swiftly, looking over her shoulders in paranoia when she heard even the tiniest sound of mice scuttling across the stone floors. From the stale air, she could deduced that she was underground which meant she had to find her way up and out of whatever that place was.

There were closed doors on either side of the walls and what creeped her out the most was how eerily quiet it was. She exhaled slowly, letting the fear dissipate through her pores. She approached a rusted red door which had multiple locks and she sighed in relief, quickly pulling out the keys from her pocket and trying everyone of them until the lock clicked open.

She cautiously pushed the door open, peeping through first to find a winding staircase going up. She stepped through, taking the steps as quickly and as quietly as she could.

She came up to a corridor and winced as the bright light from the open windows momentarily blinded her. She pulled her hand away from her eyes slowly blinking rapidly before her eyes adjusted to the light. She scanned the hallway which equally had stone walls like the one underground, but it was much cleaner and the air wasn't stale and musty.

She ducked behind the wall when she heard chatter and footsteps. She held her breath when the voices neared, her back glued to the wall behind her. Two girls clad in a brown dress walked past, both holding baskets heaped with clothes. She deduced from their thin malnourished physic and the ugly brown dress that they were human slaves.

If she was ever going to make it out of there alive and find Beau she had to come up with a plan and fast. She debated going back to retrieve the ugly brown dress she'd found in the wardrobe, that should help her blend in seamlessly with the human slaves. Another problem was how she was going to get out there. She shook off the thought of uncertainty and concluded she was going to find a way when she was out of the main building first.

She rushed back down the winding staircase to retrieve the dress, running down the silent hallway to the open door. She crossed over the dead She-wolf, snatching the dress out of the wardrobe in record time, she changed into it.

Frowning at the flimsy material that left her exposed, she sighed and shrugged off her thoughts. Her eyes zeroed in on the piece of glass sitting in a pool of blood beside the dead She-wolf and rushed forward, fetching it and wiping off the blood with the She-wolf's shirt.

She tore a piece of cloth from her shirt and used it to secured the shard of glass around her upper thigh, pulling the dress down to cover it up before pulling her hair up into a quick messy bun.

She rushed out, her steps hurried because she had a feeling someone might have noticed the She-wolf's absence and might come looking for her.

Rey walked out into the corridor, her back pin straight as she tried to act natural and blend in with the other human slaves. As she walked down the corridor, passing by other slaves, no one paid her any attention, too focused on their tasks to notice her. She found a huge wooden door, with arched frames that almost reached the high arched ceilings, hesitantly she pushed the door open blinking as the intensity of the sun seared into her eyes.

She stepped out onto the soft grass, looking around the quiet garden. There were rows and rows of white sheets hung on lines to air dry and beyond that was a thick dense of trees which was her ticket out of there.

She darted towards the clothing lines, hiding behind some sheets to scope out the area first, so as to be sure she wasn't being watched or could be spotted. As she looked around, her mouth fell open in awe as she beheld the castle like structure she'd just stepped out from.