Redemption (Triplet Sequel)

Chapter 16

Siana POV

Day 42

We had gotten so far out of the cell and into the maze of corridors that structures the dungeon. Christoph and I had not much of a plan but to try and surprise the guards and kill them before they rang the alarm. So far, so good, I thought to myself. The both of us made quite a petty team together as Cristoph could barely walk, let alone hold a weapon and I not much healthier.

Christoph had gotten skinny enough to pass through the prison bars as the distance between them seemed unimportant. No one had the guts to try and escape before. Taking the guards by surprise had been in our favor and my cellmate managed to open the door without much trouble.

The both of us continued our hard walk, avoiding the guards by blending in the shadows of the filthy walls. I knew that my white hair was no longer its original colour. It had faded and probably had too much mud and dirt to know exactly what the colour used to be. I kind of envied Chritpoh's bald head. But where Christoph lacked hair on his head, he compensated it with his massive beard that he hadn't been able to cut in over a year.

Not knowing where we were going, we followed the fresh air that began to make its way in the form of a well needed encouragement. We had finally arrived at the top of the stairs and into a dark hallway. Cristoph and I looked at each other and nodded gravely. This was our last stretch and we were determined to die under the sky, breathing as if for the first and last time. The next few minutes were some of the most painful of all. Both Cristoph and I had to support each other in order to walk. Going up so many stairs was beyond difficult and we had to take many breathless breaks in order to continue. Beyond the hallway was another door. It had to be it, I thought.

We both saw the light from under the crack of the door that proved us right. We began to walk slowly, following the torches. To me, it felt as if the closer we got to that door at the end of the dark hallway, the further the door was. I was getting desperate.

With what seemed like hours but only a few minutes, we finally made it to the said door. We stopped to take a small breather.

"This is it, my friend" I told him. "What do you say?"

"Bet'er than rottin down there" he mumbled. I smiled sadly. After everything I had gone through, this was how I was going to die. Quite a miserable way to go, I thought.

"Here goes nothing" I said and gently pushed the door opened. My first reaction was to recoil back into the shadows as my cellmate yelped and hid behind the door. After spending so much time underground with no light, both of our eyes had adjusted to the darkness. The sun was simply too bright. I closed my burning eyes as a white flash came before my eyes. It hurt.

"Hey, you there" I heard someone say from before me. I slowly opened my eyes and squinted hard against the sun light, until they began to adjust. I began to see dark figures at first. There were quite a few. Slowly those figures became creatures of all shapes and sizes; there were many. The creatures formed a semi-circle around the door, not sure how to react. No one had tried to escape before and they weren't sure which protocol to follow for this situation.

"Well my friend, it's now or never" I told him and he grunted in response. I took one last glance at the light grey sky. No matter how many clouds there were, I had never seen such a beautiful sky in my life before. Perhaps because it would be my last one. I took one last deep breath of nice, cold fresh air before preparing myself for a legendary downfall.

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Zefra POV

The feeling of being nothing and nowhere flowed through me as Jimhaya teleported Alex and I to our destination. Frankly, I was as nervous as I was excited for the adventure to come. Yes, it felt like an adventure more than a rescue mission. Perhaps both are synonyms.