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"It's outside the door!" Simon ran up to the door and pressed his ear against it. "I can't make out what it is, but if it is rats, it's the largest one ever!"
It was lucky that Charlie and Simon didn't see the body being dragged along the floor from the cell next to theirs.
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The rain drizzeled down as the Fourh guard dragged the former confines of the spirit of Fedel Razzel, a common thief to the officials, a beacon of light to the slum dwellers. Sullenlly from behind the gates a handful of ragged children with old eyes watched their former leaders being treated as just so much meat.
"So what do we now?"
The people in the slums shifted on the uncomfortable ground. They had been waiting for this day and knew it would come, but now it was here, it didn't seem real! They looked at one another and small, polite smiles greeted each other faces. They knew it was over.
But it wasnt it was only truly the begining of a new chapter. A chapter in which Charlie and Simon were to play a significant part. They just did not know it yet. o ojne id except peraps for the eerie smiling statue Of a woman With 3 faces Looking down over the town.
The people stared at the opening of their slum as the men ran in, guns under their arms, shouting. The children clung onto their mothers as the fathers were torn from their wives, their fingers ripping at each other, pleading not to be left alone. They couldn't handle it, but they would have to!
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A loud noise sounded from out side what charlie had come to thin of as a dungeon cell
It sounded like- but it couldnt possibly be ...
"GUNS!!" shouted Simon
"Guns! do you realise what this means? it means I was right all along!"
But charlie kept sitting with dazed look painted on her face staring vagully at the door
"I haven't got time for this! We need to find a way out and fast! This isn't safe! Charlie get up and help me will you?"
"Charlene!! what's wrong with you??Don't u understand?!THIS ISN'T SAFE!"
But Charlie was still staring at the door, Simon could see her trying to speak but what came out of her mouth was nothing audible...Oh No! could he see tears in her eyes?
...suddenly she pointed towards the door...
The door suddenly swung open and there were the "guards" or the bad guys as Charlie thought of then. The shock of this seemed to waken her from her dazed state.
The guards marched in and grabbed thenm roughly by the arms 2 dragging charlie and 3 simon.
They began to snap at them in goobldygooke that could only be some foriegn langusge.
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hey smiling, opr eva if thats how you preffer to be called mind you I like smiling, anyway welcome to the WT come back lots ( but just a note simon doesnt know charlies whole name is Charlene only the "witch" does)
Simon kicked and shouted at them, but to no prevail. The guards were too strong for them. Ahead of him he could hear Charlie screaming and the guards struggling to keep her under control. He heard a loud thump and saw Charlie's body slumped upon the floor.
And then simon saw Blackness.
When he woke up for the second time that night with a blistering headache he wassitting up tied to a chair and oppsite him was charlie still uncounisous
"charlie" he hissed "charlie charlie wake up!"
But nothing happened.
Then the door opened and in came a single man who sat on an epty chair he had not yet noticed and snapped at him in the gobldy gooke that was his language
"simon shook his head
"look what do you want? I cant understand you!"
The man got up and walked over to Simon. He examined the top of his head and looked into his eyes.
"You need to get out of here!" He whispered "They don't know that I understand you...If you find a way to get out, use it as soon as you can, don't hang around for anyone!"
"But..." The man shhhed Simon and went back to his desk as the door opened and the man was summoned out. Simon looked at Charlie once again.
"Charlie...Wake up!"
And then the first or second if you count whatever it was that brought them there mirical of the night happened. Charlie begam to wake up. slowly with alot of groaning but she was definetly waking up.
"Simon?"
"yes now listen to me charlie we need to get out of here"
"huh? yes of course I think Im going to be sic-"
and she was.
Charlie bent over and allowed the sick to fall from her mouth. As she had done when she was younger, she allowed tears to drop out of her eyes. She looked up, her eyes glistening.
"Simon, I can't do this anymore!"
"Charlie, you have to do this. We have to get out of here now. Who knows when they will come for us." Charlie's tears stopped and she seemed to rally her strength.
"Alright, Simon, we'll get out of here." There was a stubborn tilt to her head that confirmed she was ready to do whatever was needed. Simon closed his eyes for one moment offering thanks that she was no longer falling apart.
"This is what we need to do Charlie."
simon started pushing the chair with his still tied feet, Charlie understood what simon was trying to do. She started turning her chair slowly and soon they sat with their chairs facing the other way. Simon's hands found charlies and they started untying the the hands that had been tied at the back of their chairs .
Once free of their restraints they headed to the door