Chapter 178: Moment Of Desperation
You know that moment when you become tired? Not just physically but soul tired. That tiredness that cuddles into your bones and nothing could fix it, not even sleep. You know the kind of tired that makes you wish for nothing but death. Yeah, I was that tired now.
It’s been six fucking months, six fucking months of trying to find a way out of here. But there was no way out and even if we do make it out there was nothing but endless snow on the other end. So even if we did make it out of this fortress all we would see is miles of white all through, along with silence and the cold. It would be as if the world didn’t know the meaning of warmth.
But sometimes, I wish that I could get of this place. I would trade anything just to be out there because deep down I think even the snow is better than this cell. At least out there, the death would be quicker and I would be able to get a moment of reprieve.
Here? Here was hell, I live just long enough to feel everything those bastards wanted me to feel. Every pain, every hunger, every humiliation, I felt that. They like to remind us that we are no longer people but property. Slowly, I was starting to believe them and I would have believed them completely if it wasn’t for the fire that still burns in my heart.
It was weak, but it was alive!
"FASTER!" One of those soldiers yelled as he cracked his whip and lashed out.
We all moved faster, spinning the wheel as we tried to avoid the whip. A man behind yelled out in pain as he fell forward causing us to be one man down. They wanted us to work faster but the stupid shit for brains soldiers don’t understand that if they whip us we won’t be able to get the work done. It also doesn’t help that we were fed once a day and it wasn’t exactly a feast.
Rice balls for breakfast and stale bread with water for dinner, most times they forget to serve us so we were left feeling hunger pangs till the next morning.
"Come on, move those legs!" The man yelled again cracking the whip but thankfully he didn’t crack it.