The Book Of Anonymous Chapter 24: Chapter 21: Wait

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You just have to take a deep breath, relax and let the game come to you. -A. J. Green “Tch, how pretentious”, she mumbled quietly under her breath, “if you didn’t want to tell me, just say that” Felix turned away and ignored her mumbles; it was better to be safe than sorry. The moment he had been waiting for was almost here. A captive in the front had suddenly collapsed, restricting the movement of the line, causing a brief commotion. The guards angrily whipped him awake, dragging him to allow the line to move. He had already noticed the guards only reacted to movement or anything that would cause panic; otherwise, they were pretty nonchalant about everything else. That was why they didn’t care much when he was chatting with Ida. When the prisoners were already lined up, by then the guards had already set up tents. He noticed the ‘priests’ all had separate tents, and they quickly retired to them once they were set. The guards, however, shared their tents amongst them. They divided themselves swiftly into teams; some of them started with the fire, and the others watched the fire. They had probably been doing this for a long time. The guards unloaded a bag full of drinks and cards . No matter how professional they thought they were, there was bound to be a moment of weakness. Honestly, there was nothing wrong with their moment of carelessness. The captives were never going to escape, not only were they severely malnourished, hey were also bound with chains to restricts movement. The smell of roasted meat from the campfire wafted up his nose,e causing a loud grumble to come from his stomach. The guards then moved down the line,e removing the bindings from the captives’ hands but not their feet. The weight of the chain caused him to breathe a sigh of relief; however, it was quite unfortunate that his eyes were blinded when the chains were removed,e,d or he would not need to go through the long process. Once every prisoner had their hands unchained, their eye bindings were removed. They were probably scared of the prisoners figuring out the locks. What a bother Once his chain was free, he immediately sat down on the floor, consuming the unappetising gruel that was placed in front of him. All his plans would be completely useless if he didn’t have the energy to complete them. After he quickly wolfed it down he calmed down and observed his surroundings, some of the captives where savouring the gruel really slowly like it was their last meal, the others were wolfing it down in fear that it would disappear, There were only 3 guards on standby watching them, the others were stood by he fire eating the meat and laughing, as for the priests there were no where to be found. presumably in their tents. Felix quietly put his hand in the right pocket of his tattered garment, pulling out the pocket watch. Nobody paid any attention to him. His conclusion was right; they really couldn’t see the pocket watch. He then pressed the second button, retract . He needed to find a certain memory. He took a deep breath in, silently praying to the goddess for good luck, and then touched the chain. The camp around him spun around until the area changed, retracting to the past. clang. clang.clang A guard twisted the chain around a bony pale hand,n,d tightening it carefully, then a flash, the sound of the guard’s laughing manically. The chain was being dragged down into a pool of blood filled with mince meat. Human flesh. I n desperation, the bony pale hand twisted the chain to escape. Rriiiiipp! Felix cringed at the sound of tearing flesh, reeling over slightly as his eyes adjusted to the light from the camp. Nobody paid him much attention except Id, who was looking at him, staring obsessively at the chain with a strange look. Although he didn’t get a full solution, he found the chain’s weak point, they were very crude. And there was no more time to look for a better solution. He shuffled, shifting closely to Ida, as he whispered in her ear “Don’t move un