I shuffled some coins from my pocket to my bag and looked back up as the group seemed overjoyed to leave, of course; so was I but I wanted to pack a few extra supplies and it seemed, Corey, being a rational person decided to as well. So far we established maybe going down the side of the wall with simple arrows and jumping close to a free flowing river for Eliza to use her magic bending to bring us to a safe fall OR simply just break past the hard iron door that secured us inside the fortress. Both ideas seemed pretty well thought out, especially since I helped plan the climbing plan BUT we chose the iron door, which, seemed far easier than stressing over dying by falling at the wrong moment. I glanced around and nodded to Thomas as we secured ropes onto the iron door, it was locked in place and didn’t seem to budge just pulling on it by yourself. I turned to the group and caught a glance of Raven in back right beside Corey. “PULL!” Corey’s voice echoed in the corridor and sounded quite like a slave master but I ignored the thought of.... those things. I then rose my voice and joined “Pull a little harder!”. Maybe the second to third tug we put all our might into it and finally loosened the hinges to where I could easily break the notches holding in place, me being the son of a blacksmith of course. “Free at last!!” Raven exclaimed quickly turning to hug me and slightly startling me. Thomas, Eliza, and Edwin seemed to stand around enjoying the nice new atmosphere of joy projected around us. I caught a glimpse of a Edwin just as he fell down to the floor and I ran over to him, my heart thudded hard against my chest and Renn even seemed frightened. “W-What’s wrong?” someone croaked in the background but Edwin was my only focus; he was my only friend I could tolerate even more than this group of adventurers I had grown close to, and I had betrayed him just to turn and get money. Snapping back to reality, I now noticed that Edwin slowly was coming around but it worried me, I risked a look to his older brother only to see a look of utter confusion. “Edwin? You okay? What happened?” only a slight chuckle escaped Edwin’s lips before he spoke, slowly raising up to dust himself off “It’s nothing... just can’t be too sure about-“ he started coughing and reached in his bag for a cluster of eucalyptus sap shaped as a cough drop. He dropped a few in his mouth and spoke again “It was the dungeons they put us in, the people we were stuck in the prison cell with.... I think they had some sickness..”. I then noticed the symptoms myself, ever since coming to the castle- I saw people disappear, his own people. And I saw the fact of coughing, even random moments where they seemed unable to breathe, falling and somewhat disoriented. The aspect of it frightened me and I slowly grew to realize that if we couldn’t leave quickly enough we would soon all get it and find it harder to cure ourselves. Edwin was strong, and I was shocked to see him get it so quickly. I turned to eye the whole group; Corey had a slight cough, Thomas had a look of shock, deeper than just a surprise to sickness, and especially Raven and Amora; I noticed on occasions they would press their temples as to relieve themselves from a headache, I myself was getting one and I took a deep breath “We need to get out of here, the only reason the King still had this kingdom is because the fact of his men’s fear towards him and his... demon. Notice how everyone’s scattered. This sickness isn’t something to mess with. We need to go now.” Helping Edwin up with Raven close beside me, we walked to a section of grass outside the castle and rested; Renn seemed to be darting from one tent to another asking for utensils and supplies, I opened my tent to his use and remained outside. One thought ran into my mind as I nodded off to sleep and that was, ‘We need to find this demon and rid him of this world.’ - - - - OHHHHKAY, this isn’t honestly the best, I admit, but I’ve been between stress and writer’s block but I enjoy this honestly. Gives me a break. x3 Next chapters that comes around to me will take some TIME and hopefully it’ll be used to the best it can, mainly now it’s just in the nick of time use. Hope Edwin isn’t mad at me oof- xD Love you all!~ Thomas: @-SpaghettiCorgi- Eliza: @PeriwinklePenguin11 Amora: @Cora901283 Renn: @LittleSheepie Raven: @Pscorer Ridge: @LittleSheepie Cory: @cwkcassie793 Edwin: @TheGreninjaCoder - - - - UPDATE: (like, 5 minutes later??) I HATE MY CHAPTER AND IM SORRY IT SUCKS AGHHH- (n why does Ridge have to be so hard to draw under pressure n on Apple Sketch? xD)
