You make your way where you heard the sound of creaking in the wooden floor. Atruii breaks the silence saying, "There is body in this room." You all gasp, not knowing what to expect. You cannot see what Atruii is doing, she is on the opposite side of the creaking floor.
She whispers in the darkness, "Are you awake?" The sound of patting can be heard. "Are you dead?" Atruii says, ad the person begins to moan, then coughs.
Atruii can be heard wrestling with the person. All of you try to rush quietly to silence him. Atruii says, "I will let you speak, if you do not cry for help. If you do, I will put you back to sleep myself. Who are you?"
Trembling, the person says, "Atruii... Atruii... Is it really you?"
"Aom?" Atruii says, as you sense she puts her arms around him. "This is Aom' Suk, member of our Fueen, and son of Duu Ognam Suk, a servant of your father, Iviaena."
"Iviaena, you must not be here." Aom says to you. "They captured me knowing my father is close to Enop. They beat me so bad that I can barely walk."
"Here, help him stand." You say, as you can hear him struggling. "Aom, there must be a way to get out of here! You must have seen the room - did anything stand out for you before we were brought here?"
"I am sorry, Iviaena. I was beaten so badly that I do not remember the day this happened." Aom says.
"Aom, let me move you to the wall. Help me friends... Slowly. There you go Aom."
"Thank you, Atruii."
"Wall?" You heard the sound of the floor creaking on the opposite side, so you move towards the opposite side of the room - you can hear the floor creaking. As you reach for the wall, you can feel that this side of the floor is weak. With enough weight pushing it down, you can crack the wood floor, even break it.
"This floor is weak. We can put our weight on it to crack it. Quickly, come to my side of the room" you whisper.
All of you feel the floor creak louder, even bend towards the corner. You tell Atruii, "Move to the door, and try to listen if someone is coming." Atruii moves quickly to where the door is.
"Anything, Atruii?" You say.
"Wait, I am still feeling around... Found it. Hold on...... Ok, try now", Atruii says.
You all force your weight to snap the wood floor. It takes four tries, until you hear several snaps. Your blood rushes to your head - what if they heard the noise, but Atruii says, "No one there, keep doing it."
You keep forcing weight on the broken floor panels until finally they completely snap, and Rekell falls through. You call out to her in a whisper, "Rekell, you ok."
"Yes, I am fine. We have ground. but I cannot see a thing. Come down quickly."
You and your companions slowly rip up the broken floor panels, while Rekell pulls the other pieces down to the ground. One by one, you make your way below, only to find out that you must crawl through this dark labyrinth to find an opening for your escape. You crawl through webs and touch passing insects that make this there home, until you find a weakness in the stone work of the building. You call your friend to meet you at the spot. Turning on your back, and placing your feet on the stone wall, you push it to weaken up mortar. Suddenly, you hear foot steps above walking in the direction of the room you were held captive. A body falls through the hole, as Atruii yells, "MOVE, MOVE, MOVE!"
The sound of yells can be heard, with wood and metal clashing - "Run, Iviaena! RUN!!!" Aom cried out.
You kick with all you might, loosening the mortar and stones from the wall. You continue kick, while your companions pull away the debris in order to make a wide space to escape. Atruii grabs you from behind, "That's enough. We can go now. Get up and hurry."
"Wait, what about Aom?" You say, looking at Atruii's face.
"Aom is gone, now let us be free of this place!"
You climb out of the hole and find yourself in an alley. You begin to run through a busy street, but you are unfamiliar with it. You look both ways to escape, but you are unsure. You turn around to the alley and to your surprise, five of the Bawaii Nuu stand before you. You all gasp out of fright, but the leader comes forth removing his covering - it is Ghiz' Nii.
You run up to your teacher in tears, holding him tight.
"Calm your heart, Iviaena. We need to get you away from here. Are you strong enough to run?"
You reply, "Yes, we are."
"Men, stop them from reaching us", Ghiz' Nii says. Looking to you, he gently pats you on the shoulder saying, "As I trained you, run."
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