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Baird woke up dizzy things were even blurrier than they were when he first arrived. His chest hurt like hell. Someone was humming. "Cole, shut the fuck up.." he mumbled. He opened his eyes again to help clear his sight. The smell of mint and cinnimon came first he knew who was there. Rain was kneeling over a bed right next to him with a bowl of water and a towel, she was humming a melody not noticing he was awake.
She stood up went across the room he was in and started running a tap which came out warm water. She refilled the bowl and washed out the towel then came back to Baird, who was trying to sit up.
"Don't get up you'll make it worse," She said gently pushing him back down. He saw cuts on his arms when did they get there?
"They happened after I turned my back the lits got your arms they're going to hurt for a while" she said sitting a bit on the side of the bed, he watched her work she was gentle and fierce but determined.
"Why?" he asked when she went to refil the bowl again. "Why help me?" He asked again.
He heard her sigh. "That room" she answered hesitating but continued. "That room your in belonged to a friend of mine before he died in the arena, they chose him and he died from it" she sounded sad and bitter but tried to look like she was okay.
"He um..meant a lot , he was everything I couldn't be, generous, kind, helpful and forgiving. Whenever we got a new person in here he tried to help them, before they sent him to his death he made me promise to do his task and help people that came through here. I try it but I'm not good with people more with animals" she said rinsing the towel in the water.
"Your shirt" she said.
"What?" he asked confused.
"Your shirt off, I need to get the cuts under it before the come infected otherwise you could die" she said he did as he was told then lay back down. She kept humming and working asking him random questions like was the sky still blue above on the surface.
He kept looking at the door waiting for someone to come through this grabbed her attention and she looked at the door which was actally two bars on either side that was dug into the rocky walls.
"Oh and don't worry about others coming in here, they can't exactly climb like I can we're to high up" she said. To high up?
"How did you end up down here?" He asked.
"How did you?" she said a bit defensivly.
"Those guard guys got me now your turn. You save my life twice because of a dead guy and no one seems to know you down here, except you've been here the longest" he pushed her to answer.
She sighed again and pulled up a chair instead of sitting on the bed. She grabbed a box from under the bed pulling out bandages he gave a suprised look at how clean they were.
"I made a deal with one of the guards, he could be drinking on duty and I wouldn't let anyone go near him or let the head of the guards find out if he gave me medical supplies" she answered pushing his pillow up making him sit up. She gently and focusly started wrapping it around his chest and arms to stop the bleeding.
Sitting back she played with the towel a bit, he didn't think she would but she did. "There..there was a little girl," she bit her lip, he didn't know how this was going to end but he knew that whatever it was that was how she got here.
"Her mother was sick, really sick her father was wealthy so they kept sending her to get treated because he loved her so much. After E-day the hospitals shut down and treatment was hard to find. The father found the right contacts who had the medicine. The little girl loved her parents so much she would do anything for them." She stopped for a bit.
"You were the little girl" he said it wasn't a question.
She nodded and he noticed tears in her beautiful eyes. "The people who had the medicene said he would have to pay, and the father did he gave them their medicine and they took him to the arena, the little girl's mother was frail and at the loss her her beloved husband... she..." Rain stumbled off breathing deep a tear slid down her face.
Baird looked at her like she didn't have to continue but Rain carried on. "...She died a few weeks later...the little girl went to find her father after her mother was buried. All she found was him injured deeply. The people her father had origionally made the deal with him, tried it on her they promised to help him get better what she didn't know was that his injuries were permanent nothing could fix them, only months later he died as well leaving the little girl alone in a pit where survival is all anyone cares about, and she's been here ever since" she said leaning back.
"I'm sorry" he said. She got up brushing herself off and cleared her throat.
"It happened years ago. I'm over being used" she said. Turning and opening a battered cupboard she ought out a weilder which he eyed.
"Now where did you get that?" he asked.
"I've kind of dealed and pickpoketed things off the guards. Hey it's how we survive down here" she answered. He got up painfully. She grabbed a rope and a harness which he gave her a quzzical glare.
"The Lits those lizard cat things broke my door. Good news I can use the metal for something else, bad news I don't have a door anymore," she responded. Attaching the rope to the harness which she wrapped arpund her like a belt. "You coming?" she asked.
Baird got up and followed Rain into a cave filled with water and a waterfull goind down into it below their feet. "It's drinkable and swimable if you go in it, but I doubt you will" she noticed where he was looking.
"Aren't you worried people will find this place?" he asked.
"I know the area better than anyone all the tunnels I know you would have to have been here twenty years like I have to know where to go so no I'm not" she answered blunty.
She weaved in and out of rocks and pillars of stone until she approached the edge of a cliff, she grabbed a rope which dangled of the end off the top of the cave. She swung to the otherside of the cave laughing and threw the rope back for hm to do the same.
They climbed through a tunnel until they approached the main pit. Rain yanked Baird back before he went off the cliff.
"Watch it" she teased. "You know how to repel?" she asked pointing to the fact they had to climb down.
"Few times before" he said.
"Good I won't hae to teach you" she said climbing down quickly. He followed her through the catwalks and runways until they entered the main area Peter rushed up to Rain he looked pale.
"Peter what's wrong?" she asked clutching at the man.
"They've chosen Gariel and taken him away" the man cried.
"Oh shit!" She said running inside the mess. A giant TV which Baird hadn't seen before was set up people were crowding around it. A man was standing in a hall running for his life, his attackers were...
"Locust!" Baird recognised them.
"Shit not Gariel!" Rain swore again watching. "Stop it! Don't run you know what happens if you do!" she begged.
Baird didn't understand what that meant. How had they got locust prisoners down here? Another man entered the hall Gariel screamed. The man raised him gun and shot him straight in the head and left his body for the locust.
Rain switched it off. She turned and faced all of them. He saw anger in her eyes and something else..regret?
"That's why we never run! EVER!" She yelled at all of them. "If locust don't get us the guards will you're on your own if you don't remember that when your in there" she added before leaving.