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Chapter 24: The Fort

When I wake up, I'm alone in a dark room. Its made of big grey bricks and has no windows, only an iron bar door. There is a bed in one corner, and a sink and toilet on the opposite wall.
"Hello!" I yell. "Anybody there?"
"I'm here!" I hear Ally say.
"Where are we?" I ask.
"I don't know, I thought I was alone until you just spoke".
"We need to get out" I say, "what if the soldiers have trapped us here and are going I kill us?"
"You're right" she says, "but...how are we going to do that exactly?"
"Umm...that part I haven't figured out yet" I say, slightly embarrassed.
"Well that reassures me sooooo much" she says.
"Well it's not like you have a plan either"
"Well actually I do"
"And your plan is...?"
"Well there is an air vent on the roof of my little room thingy, so we might be able to climb up into it and escape"
"Okay, so maybe you do have a plan". I say, and get on the bed and try to open the air vent. It's harder than it looks, and I try for a good ten minutes before realising that it's screwed in place.
"Yo Al" I say.
"What? Can't you see I'm trying to get this thing open?"
"Well first off, I'm in a separate room, so no. Second, if you haven't realised, It's screwed on"
"Oh, well that makes a lot of sense" I hear footsteps coming down the corridor outside and a woman stops in front of my 'room' door (It's more like a cell).
"Hello, I am Lili. I will be escorting you to our leader". she opened my door and gestures for me to exit it.
"What are you going to do to us?" I ask.
"You'll find out in time...But for now, come this way"
"And why should I?" I ask. She wipes some of her brown hair out of her eyes, and I see the annoyed look in her brown eyes.
"Because" she says, "I can get soldiers to do it for me if you want?"
"On second thought, yeah I'll go" I say, and she unlocks Ally's door and we follow her down a few hallways.
"Where's everybody else?" I ask.
"They're already there" she says and turns back to the front. We walk about twenty metres and stop infront of a door that says:

Arno le traître

'He sounds French' I think to myself. We enter the room and Ellen, Ed, Brayden, Rachel and Molly are there. They turn to looks at us and a dark haired, blue eyed man stood up from a desk at the back of the room.
"I am Arno" he says in a french accent, "and welcome to la forteresse de la sécurité"