It’s dark when the Keep’s newest guests arrive. The cold night air has seeped into the stones of the barracks sending a chill throughout the rooms. No fire has been laid, no lamp lit to beat back the cold or dispel the dark. Each cell remains exactly as it has for months on end, almost as though no one were expecting the small rooms to be occupied
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She shrieked in surprise, scrambled to try to get to her feet and in the process found her hands grasping the blankets. Where had the blankets come from? The ground? The lack of bushes? What had happened to the bushes and the wind?
Panic spiraled higher. Had someone gotten her? Had her parents found her? The government? She didn't know but she had to get out. Had to.
If it wasn't for slightly heightened night vision, she might have bumped into everything in the room. She could see just enough to get to the door. Her hands grasped at it, wrenched it open and stepped out into the hallway. Bryn trembled, senses heightened by the rush of adrenaline in her body, and tried to figure out what to do.
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"Please don't step on me!"
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"Wh-who is it? Who is that?" she stammered out, heart still pounding in her chest.
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"Down here in front of you.
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Thumbelina knows what she is about to ask is a bit much. Yet, this place is far too unfamiliar to be left here alone.
"Could you possibly pick me up? It's too dark and I don't want to be alone."
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Bryn reached down, grasping toward the voice, expecting a midget or small person or...well, whatever they called themselves. Her hands grasped at air until at last she located someone much smaller. Thumbelina was smaller than a Barbie doll, even. As carefully as she could, Bryn picked Thumbelina up and brought her up close to her chest.
"Are you from here? Do you know where we are?" she asked, trying to get a better look at the small girl.
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She turned her head when light catches her eye. "What's that over there?"
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Well that wasn't ominous or alarming. Bryn pressed her back to the door to her room, wondering if she'd be safer in there or on the run.
"Some kind of light," she murmured to Thumbelina. "What do you want to do?"
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"Then we go inside," she whispered, and pressed her back harder against the door to take them inside. At least there perhaps they might be passed by, go unnoticed.
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"Sooner or later someone will find us somewhere. What if it's someone else not from here? We'd be safer with someone else to have our backs, wouldn't we?"
Bryn didn't wait for an answer. She opened the door just enough to take a peek at who was out there. They were knocking. It was such a normal thing...
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