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Chapter Nine
There's a second when you wake up, a second were you remember nothing. Where your mind is clear and your thoughts are blank.
When Jace opened her eyes, that's exactly how she felt. Not knowing what happened, or where she was. Jace slowly sat up, off of the concrete floor she was laying on as she rubbed the back of her head. She looked around and all she saw were four concrete walls, and a low concrete
ceiling. There was one dull light bulb hanging from the ceiling, giving off just enough light. It was like she was trapped in a small cage, only this one had to bars, and no way out. Her memories kept flooding in, and as they did, she began to panic. “Hello?” She tried yelling. “Anyone there?” She assumed she wasn't the only one taken and put down here, and she hoped one of her friends would hear her. “Can anyone hear me? Hello?”
“Jace?”
Jace heard a small voice call out from the other side of one of concrete wall. “Maisy?” She yelled in hope, as she ran towards the wall, and placed her hands on it. “Maisy is that you?”
“Jace! Yes, ya it's me.” Maisy sounded as happy as ever.
“Where are we? Where are the others?” Jace asked.
“I'm not sure. I woke up in this room and I can't find a way out. Nor can I hear the others.”
Jace looked around the room, there had to be a way out somehow. She had to have been put in here. Jace looked at the lightbulb, hanging from the ceiling by a rope. She remembered how Peter fell on the light in the library, and how that activated the secret door to open. Unfortunately, who ever stuck them down here took her backpack, and all of her gear. Jace looked at the rope, it seemed as if it was connected to some medal pulley system at the top. Though it was hard to see in the dull light. She gave the rope a hard yank and it easily pulled down a few inches. There was a loud sound of gears moving and then the lightbulb moved back into place. A small rectangle of concrete swung open, just like the bookshelf. “Maisy!” Jace yelled in excitement. “Pull down on the light bulb, It will open a door.” Maisy waited until she heard the gears grinning from Maisy cell, and then she left the concert cage. I piece of wall opened up next to her, and Maisy emerged from it. “Maisy!” Jace smiled as she ran into her arms.
“Jace! Omg, thanks. What's going on? Where are we?”
“I think we're in the cellar, deep beneath the library.” Jace told her as she pulled away from the hug. “Are you okay Mac?” She asked.
“Ya, I'm fine. You?”
“Not sure.” She answered honestly.
Jace looked around, it was hard to see but there was just enough faint light to make things out. there were large cinder walls all around them and the openings to two other rooms. “It looks like Gianna and Bailey we're here too.” She said, looking into the small concrete rooms.
