Chapter 5: No Escape
Reaching one of the cells that was occupied with two girls, one of the guardsmen opened the cell door and shoved Samantha in after getting rid of the shackles.
She stumbled and could barely stop herself from falling forward into the hard ground. Samantha looked back to see they had locked the gates of the cell, and it became more clear that she was indeed held as a slave.
With a gasp, she quickly rose to her feet and hurried to the railings, her fingers curled around it as she tried to push it open with all the strength she could muster.
"Come back here! I don’t belong here! Get me out of this place!" She banged hard against the iron railing, not minding that it gave her dainty fingers little cuts till they bled.
"You have to let me out! I need to get to my brother and Father, please!" Tears welled up in her eyes as she continued to bang hard in fear and anger, not until she heard a quiet voice speak behind her, and it made her flinch to a pause.
"They won’t come, no one will listen to your pleas. If you keep this up, you’ll attract nothing but trouble."
Turning around to look at the girl who spoke, a dark-haired girl with chocolate-brown eyes quietly rose to her feet. She walked up to Samantha and held her wrist, bringing her to sit with them.
The other girl inside the cell smiled faintly at Samantha, posing no harm, but said nothing.
Samantha’s teary gaze studied the cell she was in. The three walls made of cold hard bricks were relatively small, so small that it was impossible for the three of them to lie straight when it was time to sleep. They had to rest their backs against the wall, hugging their feets and staring into space until they each succumbed to the heaviness of their eyelids.