Chapter eleven

Chapter 11: Ethan

Despair: The only thing I felt while sitting in the corner of my cell. The six by six cell had no flaws, no lose bars, no possible way to get out. Hearing a scuffling to my side, I jumped up and stood poised, ready for anything. A small mouse ran out of the shadows and started across the cell. Quickly thinking that the scientists probably wouldn’t feed us, I grabbed the rat and crushed its skull. I shoved it in my pocket and crawled over to where the rat ran out. Searching with my hands, I found a small hole in the wall, which was just large enough to fit my index and middle finger inside. I grabbed a small object and rolled back into the light where I could examine it: A twig. Searching through my mind for uses for it, I finally came to the conclusion that I could maybe pick the lock. I ran over to the lock and shoved the twig in. After a couple minutes, I started to lose hope and was just about to sit down when, Click! It opened. As it unlocked, the bars turned a light blue color, and then the light disappeared. Assuming that whatever power the bars had was now turned off, I pushed the door open and ran down the hallway.