Ate POV:


    It took a while and I couldn’t work fast because the bed would freak and I had to be careful not to put


    any weight on the right side but eventually, I got the support joint off of it. It was hard enough and sharp


    enough that if I mmed it


    into the small window I could break the ss.


    After I did that I’d have to clear the remaining shards quickly before jumping. The jump still terrified me


    and I prayed to the goddess to guide me safely. I couldn’t remember if I should straighten my legs or if


    was I supposed to bend


    them. Should I keep my arms out or in?


    I waited that day quiet and calm I didn’t normally speak so it wasn’t rming to any of them. Marcus


    had stopped visiting me a few days ago and I was beyond thankful. By the whispers, he and Marcus


    had fought.


    I had reyed what would happen over and over in my mind for the past week. Each night going over


    the movements and the steps. My fingers slowly loosen the bolts on the bed as best my fingers could


    reach.


    Tonight the small guards would be on duty and they always didn’t speak, their eyes pointed forward my


    water bowl was over by one of the guards so if I pretended to drop a towel I could swipe the silver


    syringes off of him.


    When the two smaller skinnier men walked into the room my heart rate spiked for a couple of minutes it


    was getting closer. For some reason, I’d felt stronger and stronger every day I couldn’t exin it but it


    gave me the strength and courage to attempt this.


    When I saw the moonlight filter in fully through my small window. I gulped before getting off of my bed


    and going over to the wash bowl pouring in some water and washing my face and then identally


    dropping the towel and spilling some water.


    “Damn,” I whispered before kneeling down to pick it up.


    I quickly bent down and kept my head pointed to the floor but my eyes went to the vials of poison. I


    moved as quickly as I could grabbing the small vials and gently pulling them out of the guard’s belt.


    I wiped up the water with one hand keeping my breath even as I pulled my hand back. My wrist slightly


    grazed the silver bars and I gulped down the yelp. My wrist burned a bit but that was gonna have to


    fester.


    I grabbed the two injections not really believing it worked. Deacon should have made this adjustment in


    person


    instead of ordering Marcus to oversee it. Thetter was a little shortsighted, I grinned stood back up,


    and continued to wash my face with a new towel.


    Then quickly as I could I took one of the injections and jabbed the guard in the back not moving from


    my ce I pressed in the glittering liquid. He grunted and went to sleep so it just sounded like a cough.


    I looked over to see if any of them noticed and they didn’t.


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    I sighed a soft sigh of relief before hiding the empty vile in the wet towels I crossed the cell and went to


    put them in my hamper. Setting up the next injection–in–my other hand.


    I jabbed him and he didn’t even notice and he slowly went off to sleep. I tossed the syringe in with my


    laundry. I


    grabbed a sweater before I pretended to straighten out my bed. The guards would be asleep for hours


    so I didn’t have


    to worry.


    “Can’t make my bed right,” I snipped and moved my nightstand over a little as I adjusted my sheets.


    Did they realize it now sat under the window no, they didn’t. I got into my bed and counted to 60 five


    times, my heart thudding as loudly as possible my hands wrapping around the metal support joint and


    my sheet.


    Tming,” I whispered aloud.


    I got up and pretended to stretch out, but a cramp hit my hands full. I got onto the nightstand and


    WHACK. The ss didn’t shatter WHACK CRACK WHACK


    “HEY!” I heard as they mmered over themselves in the control room.


    I turned the metal bit so the sharpest point extended out WHACK. finally, the ss gave way and


    shattered I cleared most of it away with the bar my hands sweating.


    Behind me, they fumbled with the keys and others tried to shake the unconscious guards awake. I used


    the sheet covered by the ss jumping up my arm got cut but I got my top through the window.


    For the first time in however long it had been fresh air hit my lungs.


    “NO!” I heard behind me.


    I called forth whatever strength I had and pushed myself out of the hole and out of captivity, free–falling


    toward the water. I didn’t have time to think of bending my legs or if I had my arms out because I was


    already falling.


    I breathed in panicked breaths as I fell and before I knew it cold water greeted me and encased my


    whole body. In the end, my back hit the water. I didn’t die.


    I swam up to the surface and heard rms ring but I justughed. I lived. I lived. I swam over the


    large rock and started swimming as closely as I could. The water was cold truly cold, sharp and it hurt


    but I kept going, adrenaline my best friend guiding me through it.


    Not that far ahead I saw a small beach. Surely they’d know I would go there but I didn’t have much of a


    choice. I swam for my life as quickly as I could


    I hauled myself onto the beach and ran into the trees. I didn’t know where I was and my ears were


    ringing but I ran all the same. My clothes had red splotches here and there from my blood but that


    would have to wait.


    I kept going my breath ragged and my lungs burned my feet in their small sippers that was all I had to


    cover them. Still, I kept going. One picture in my mind, Grayson holding him. Our little bundle, I’d be


    home so soon and I wouldn’t ever go anywhere else again.


    I kept my body going and running through trees over dead pine needles and rocks past bushes and


    animals, and through the forest under the stars. I pushed on even when I started to truly hurt not giving


    up I had to go until I couldn’t they had cars, and bikes I had two feet. I changed directions here and


    there to throw them off my track and stay ahead of them


    I used the north star as my guide, like all wolves do but I felt so, so, free, I let outa dryugh as I kept


    running and a new energy took hold of my body and I pushed on my legs remembering the joy of


    sprinting, I felt the air in my lungs pumping me forward and dug my toes in eahe time reloishing the


    cold wet of the mud. Dld trees always smell this sweet?


    When the sun started to peak it’s way into the sky I decided I had run far enough I slowed down no one


    was in sight and I couldn’t hear a sound, I found a cave but decided it was too obvious so I kept going


    eventually stumbling upon a tree with a hole under and I grabbed a couple of branches before I crawled


    in and covered up the entrance.


    Fis out I love you


    I tied but the same ck void met my mind, I still had the venom in my veins sol closed my eys and


    tried to sleep. I flinched at every little noise at first but exhaustion is unbeatable and I eventually fell


    asleep.


    And when I awoke…I was stil under the tree, safe for now..


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