Chapter 183: The Deed Has Already Been Done
DAHLIA POV
I was getting out of this place along with the other prisoners that was here, I was leaving no one behind!
This is thought that I’ve had these past weeks ever since my back healed and I was thrown back outside to start working. I decided to put more consideration into scoping out the place. I refused to believe that this place was that tight and there was no way out. Everywhere always have a way out, this place wasn’t as impenetrable as they led us to believe. It had to be a lie, something that was said to instill fear inside the prisoners.
In each cage lies a hinge that yields, in each prison lay a brick that wavers among the ones that were built to hold the building, one just have to be desperate enough to find it. I spent most of time outside watching quietly and patiently, I’m sure there was something I missed.
I started cramming when the guards changed their shifts and how they conversed with one another, which doesn’t happen a lot. I knew which ones were cruel and which ones were lazy and the ones who were pervert. Turns out they do have needs and some women happily obliged to satisfy it in order to get smaller work load. I examined every corner of the yard and also examined the prisoners too.
All of them seemed to have given up on almost making it out of here, they already accepted this place that this was where they were going to die. But not me and the only other person who believed that was Ilyana but her mother doesn’t want me filling her head with nonsense talks about getting out of here. She doesn’t want me giving her hope because according to her that was worse than knowing your own death.
It doesn’t matter though, I have found my way out and that was through him, Branderson!
My gaze found the man who was busy sitting on a brick as he quietly tore into a loaf of bread. The man who had been here for ten years. There is no way that someone who has stayed that long didn’t find a way to get out. He must have tried and something went wrong, but I was going to find out today.
Grabbing my cup of water, I walked towards Branderson. I didn’t say anything else as I lowered myself into the empty brick next to him. His gaze assessed me but I kept my eyes forward not wanting to seem too desperate. I felt him take his gaze off me and he stared ahead.