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My intuition proves correct

My back is scraped all up and down froed stone floor My shoulder feels ablaze froed by the arms, but I never react

Finally, I’, feel the warrass

“I’ll pull the truck around; you watch him”

I hear footsteps crunching on leaves as the guard walks away

I wait a second longer, and then I attack I stand and run at the rein to choke him before he even realizes I’m awake Within seconds, I drain the life froround

I find his gun and wait around the corner for his friend to return When I spot hile shot

I don’t know if there are cauards nearby who could be alerted, but I don’t stick around to find out I have one et us both out of here

The door that leads back to the house is unlocked, so I easily slip back inside My wrists are still bound together, but there is enough space between theets into hand to hand combat, I’m not sure how I’d fare with the chains and uards dead before a fight gets that far

I don’t knohere Liesel is being kept I don’t know her condition or if everything the et to her

I come to a fork, where the hallway splits The rooht I know instinctually to head to the left Our captor would keep us at either ends of the castle to make it as hard as possible for us to reach each other

There are several doors through the hallway I want to burst through them all to see if Liesel is in each and every one of them, but I don’t knoho is on the other side of the door, and I won’t risk getting captured again

Instead, I’m stealth-like as I approach each door quickly but carefully I place ainst the thick doors They may be thick, but they aren’t modern Thankfully, I can hear beyond the door into each room

Twobehind the first door, but neither of them mention Liesel after a few seconds

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