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We were drawing closer to the Prize Pool at the end of the hall. Something was going on inside the science lab. I tore my eyes away from it as it wasn’t my escape route.
We crept further down the hall to the Prize Pool. I heard loud footsteps approaching from an adjacent hallway and paused.
I held out an arm and blocked Agatha’s approach. An angry mob of a dozen prisoners or so descended upon the Prize Pool. They were held at bay by fighters I recognized as those belonging to Thillak of Klika.
Odd, I thought, that they should be sending reinforcements here when there was so much call for them elsewhere. After all, Klika was the most powerful gang in the prison and they could really clean up if they used all the forces at their disposal. Instead, they were defending the Prize Pool from attacks.
But one thing was for sure.
There was no way we were getting in through this entrance.
I was aware there were other entrances, so I took us around this obstruction and checked each of the others, gnashing my teeth at the time this was taking me.
I discovered all the entrances were under attack and equally defended by other members of the Klika gang.
Damn me for trying to be noble!
I turned on Agatha.
“Do you know of any other ways into the Prize Pool?”
“No. Just the ones you’ve seen.”
I growled and stamped my foot.
“Is there anywhere you would feel safe other than the Prize Pool?”
“Are you kidding? I’m not sure I would even be safe in there!”
As hard as the prisoners were fighting to get at the girls in the Prize Pool, none had yet breached their defenses, and unless I missed my guess, they weren’t going to.
“We’re going to have to get you somewhere safe before I get out of here,” I said.
“Get out?” Agatha said. “How are you going to get out?”
Damn me for a fool!
I never meant to let her into my little plan to escape.
“It doesn’t matter how,” I snapped.
“Even if you get out there, you’ll never survive! Everyone knows that.”
“Some survive.”
Agatha looked me over, her eyes scanning my triumphant smile and confident manner.
“You could survive out there? How?”
“Because we’re not all from wet planets with enough water to drown in. Some of us are from planets not much different to this one.”
Agatha must have seen I was being serious.
“Take me with you,” she said.
“It’s going to be risky and I don’t want you slowing me down.”
“I won’t slow you down.”
