Chapter 28: Escape

Sofia fidgets in her cuffs when she heard footsteps. And the oubliette trapdoor opened and lowered a tray in a basket.

"Here's your breakfast." She heard a guard said as the tray touched the ground.

She then looks to the tray and saw a bowl filled with grey gruel, a mixture of nutrient for high end slaves, alongside a piece of black bread and a bowl of water.

Sophia sighs, the meal brought back unpleasant memories, and drinks the gruel. the bland taste a remainder her of her youth, groomed to be sold. Followed by the bread.

And was surprised, it was rough and filled with grains, likely because Bryan planned to sell her. When an idea struck her.

She began to make gagging noise, faints, and convulse.

"Could you eat more quietly!" One of the guards yelled before opening the trapdoor. And upon seeing her quickly brought down the ladder.

"What are you doing!" She heard the other one.

"She's choking! Now help me with the gate before she dies!"

The ladder dropped down and both guards ran towards her.

One had a scraggly physique, with less muscle then a standard soldier, while the other is a bit pudgy.

Both of them wore the standard grey tunic and pants with boots with a hauberk and armed with a cudgel and dagger. With a set of keys on their belt.

"Quickly do that maneuver!"

She then felt one of them grabbed her by the waist and began the Heimlich maneuver as the other moved in front of her.

And received a kick to his gut and fell.

The other one stared in shock before Sofia broke his nose with her elbow, causing him to let go and fall down. As the other one recovers and pull out his cudgel and charge.

"YOU STINKING BITCH!"

Sophia parried his attack with her manacles followed by kneeing him in the gut.

The man staggers back as the other one, with the broken nose, recovers and charge with his cudgel.

A clang echoed as Sofia parries with her manacles, wincing slightly as the metal cuffs bit into her wrists, despite the padding, followed by a counter to his gut, striking his liver. Causing him to fall in agony.

She then turns towards the other guard as he charged and swings wildly.

She quickly backs away from his swing before charging at his right, and dodging his strike, and swings her manacles to his head.

The man staggers back, concussed with blood dripping from his head, before Sofia winds up a kick, following the motion of her previous swing, and strikes him in the chest. Knocking him down before putting him in a triangle hold.

The guard then struggled before falling unconscious and Sofia release her hold.

She then gets up and quickly unlocks her manacles. When the other guard unsteadily recover and charge.

Sophia sidesteps his telegraphed strike and kicks the back of his heel, followed by breaking his nose again with a punch.

She then removed their clothes, leaving them in their underwear, and tied their limbs with strips of their clothes and gag them before they woke up.

She had briefly thought about disguising as one of the guards. But quickly shot it down as her scarlet hair and pointed ears will be a dead giveaway. And that all the prison guards don't wear helmets.

She then looked to the clothes of the guards, who began screaming through their gag. And, to her dismay, found out that it was a bit too wide for her body yet too short that it barely covers her bottom with the pants too big to wear. And wears the shirt over her prison cloth, leaving the armor as it would hinder her stealth.

She then buckles the guard belt and sheathes both daggers, a cudgel, and flashbangs to it. Followed by cutting up the remaining clothes to make foot and handwraps.

She checked upon the guard one last time to make sure they bound and gagged and began climbing up the ladder before cutting it.

She locked the hatch again and quickly sneaks up the second level, upon finding out that Soloman and the other weren't in any of the cells, and takes a brief rest in a corner.

She then breathes slowly and calms down. Formulating a plan to get better equipment, preferably her gear, and then find out where they took Soloman and the other guy and rescue them.