Frozen secrets

Chapter 13 Cell 186

As we stepped into the room, lights flicked on all around us. I looked around. The room looked huge! It was much bigger than the room we were just in. The walls were back to black but there was no red this time. there were cement boxes as tall as a seven foot man and as wide as a five feet. Which I guessed were the cells. The boxes were lined in thousands of rows. Some even stacked up on the walls. Harold brought me to a small metal platform. He pointed at a cell. The platform jolted and rumbled. Then with sudden lurch, it went up. I would have fell of if it weren't for Harold, still holding tight on my arm.

The metal platform went up about two stories then forward. We passed five cells and stopped at the sixth. Harold put his hand on a scanner. It glowed red, scanned his hand, then turned green. A door suddenly appeared, as if by magic. Harold took an old golden key out of his pocket and slid it into the keyhole. He turned the key slightly then pulled the door open. Inside, there was a small gray mattress with a thin grey blanket folded neatly on top.

"I'll bring you food twice a day. You are aloud to use the bathroom three times per day." Harold said quietly and quickly. Then he pushed me into the room and closed the door. I could hear him take out the key and leave.

I looked at my surroundings, but all there was, was that bed. Then I noticed a small window on both sides of the small room. I peeked out the window on the left and saw an old man sleeping on the mattress in his room. He was very skinny. I turned and and walked over to the other window. There, I saw Faith and Kensey struggling with the rope they had been tied in.

"Faith" I said just barely loud enough for her to hear. Faith looked up from the knots, her dark hair falling out of her bun. When she spotted me a look of joy, confusion, and worry spread across her face.

Tripping over the rope she made her way to the window. When Faith got to the window the rope pulled tight and Kensey, still tangled in the rope, fell onto her bum. "Hey! What are you doing Faith?!" Kensey shouted, "You're supposed to be helping me got this rope untangled!"

"Its Taya!" Faith said turning to Kensey. She helped her up then they both went to the window.

"Who are those people?" I asked Kensey. She looked around as if to make sure make sure no one else was listening then she said, "They're the R.R.R."

"what does R.R.R. stand for? I asked

"I don't know Brian won't tell me but, I know that they steal a lot of things like magic weapons and jewels. As you can probably tell they also steal people. It's not just the the three of them, there's hundreds. The people that were attacking us last night, they were all apart of the R.R.R. but how Dr. Fineuleo got the great stone of prophecy I don't know."

I thought for a minute, "You mean my amethyst that he stole?"

"That was yours?" Kensey asked with shock on her face. I didn't understand why she was so shocked so I just nodded. "Bu- but how did yo-you get it?" Kensey managed to stutter.

I thought of my options, I could tell her that I just found it or I could tell her the truth. I decide the truth would be the best option. I opened my mouth, but before I could start I was cut of by the opening of a door. We could hear someone begging for mercy then silence. I waited until I heard the main door close then I told her about my mom and dad, and how he came home with a gun and fired, and about his eyes glowing red, and finally about when he gave me the crystal.

"That is so strange. I remember reading something about eyes glowing in weird colors but I can't quite remember. Do you know why his eyes did that?" Kensey said. She looked horrified. "I don't know." Is all I could say.