Chapter 2 Awakening

I could feel the horror of the situation sinking into me as my body shivered, Jenny's hand touched mine and I held it tight. It wasn't like death was something new to us, we were in a War camp and we were slaves, we all knew we were going to die - in fact we prayed for it. But that didn't stop me from wondering how Taylor might have died and shivering as my thoughts grew wilder.

It was Taylor now, it could be me tomorrow.

Would I be F*cked to death?, or used in some dark sinister way just to satisfy a sadistic Man. Or punished by the soldiers and thrown to the horny dogs who would do both fuck and tear me apart?. Being with Arthur had always kept me from being punished or used by someone else, but if he himself could kill Taylor, then it dawned on me that I could be the next one. What if someone new is brought and he takes a liking to her?, discarding me and leaving me to these beasts in men's clothing...

As time went by, the girls were thrown back into the cell one by one until we were complete again in the cell, something that rarely happened unless the inspector was coming. All 20 of us sat there, each in our own thoughts and the fact that Taylor was missing continued to haunt our minds.

I continued thinking and my thoughts grew wilder, and suddenly I didn't want to die, not here, not in this way, not now. Rheena pulled me out my thoughts again with another shocking statement;

"Guys, we need to escape this place, and we need to do it tomorrow tonight."

We all stared at Rheena like she just grew 3 horns from her dirty blonde hair, she had already changed her sack clothes by just taking a random one from the corner and tearing three holes into it. She stared back at us with a fire in her eyes as she continued;

"What?, why are you guys looking so surprised, is this how you really want to die?, fucked and tied to a wall. I've had it and I have come to terms that even if I die, it is by escaping this goddamned hell hole, and not by waiting like a sheep for slaughter. We all had our lives before we were dragged off by these demons and brought here, but we have a chance to escape tomorrow night, even if we die trying."

I looked away from Rheena to see the other girls, their lips stretched thin, and their gazes on the floor. Rheena was right, they all had lives before being brought here as slaves; Shekinah, the girl sitting opposite of me with dark brown hair and once beautiful brown eyes, had a loving family. She was actually kidnapped by the soldiers when she lost her way after an accident.

Rubie, the lady standing at the far end of the room, her dark hair and brown eyes surveying the whole room and checking to see if anyone was coming. She had a pretty face and was holding the hand of another lady who looked just like her, just a bit older. They were the ones with perhaps the worst fate amongst us with their beautiful dark skin. She and her sister were brought together to the camp, and the Soldiers all had a fetish for f*cking them together while treating them even less than us, if that was even possible.

The rest of the ladies were familiar faces, each with their own stories, and watching the fire in their eyes grow with every second, something burned within me. I took a deep breath and turned to Rheena;

"Is escaping even possible?"

This question was something that had bothered me from the moment I was thrust into this place, some had even tried once or twice, but it was all futile and it earned you a trip to the pound where the dogs were kept.

The whole camp was a large clearing in the middle of a small forest, there was a group of cemented buildings like our cell, with 2 large buildings in the middle of the camp. One was where the ordinary soldiers slept while the other was the private rooms of the soldiers with ranks and at the corner of the camp were tents that housed the war hospital and other things. Our cell was located at the far corner of the camp, but Soldiers had shifts on who would watch us daily, and at our backs were the dogs. Without a soldier, we would be torn apart and our sack clothes and stink would be a dead giveaway for the dogs to attack on sight.

Rheena's eyes blazed as she heard the question and I could almost feel the heat coming from her gaze as she said, "We have just one chance, tomorrow night.", then she explained;

"The inspector is coming tomorrow, so the Soldiers will be rearranging the camp tonight, this is the only chance we have and I'll rather die than stay another night in this hell hole."

It was then I understood her plan, there were alot of soldiers going and coming from our cells, so much that even without the warden, we couldn't escape, day or night. But with the inspector around, only the warden would be here to watch us while the other soldiers would stay away. The inspectors didn't know about our sexual assaults and just thought of us as prisoners, at least that was what I thought, the inspectors could have known but turned a blind eye at the situation as long as the soldiers behave when he was around. Anytime he came over to the camp which was once in 3 months, he always came to our cells and looked at us with pity in his eyes.

The most important facts about this was that only the warden would be here, the dogs would be well fed and asleep as the inspector always complained about the dogs, his voice loud enough to be heard over them barking. The only thing that could stop us was the Warden, but with all 20 of us around, we could handle it. My body shook from the idea of us escaping this place, or what would happen if we couldn't.

"When we make it out, we'll split up, if you get captured... kill yourself". I said as everyone went quiet, the punishment waiting for trying to run away would be too vicious to even think about, it was better to end your life than be dragged back. The rest looked at me for a while then nodded with grim looks but the fire in their eyes didn't dampen for a second, it was time to do something about our situation and like my mother always said, you either make it, or break it.