Chapter 16 - Covert intentions

The guards seized the women and tugged them towards themselves as they walked down the passage. They had fulfilled their parts and they pushed them down the stairs and towards the exit of the kitchen where there were prison guards ahead. Axena saw them standing ahead with bats and ropes in their hands and she needed no shaman to tell her that it had a part to play in their misfortune. w\

While they were miles away from the guards they had been assigned, the lower ranked guards that accompanied them to the kitchen turned back and left the women to walk to their masters for the night. According to how they had chosen them, the guards positioned themselves and stood before their pick.

"You have a chance to choose and it would be given as selected. Remember you have a fight tomorrow. So be wise. Do you want the rope or the bat?" the chief asked and lingered towards Plinx's face as he was standing before her.

The women remained silent, none knowing what it meant.