Thank you again to every one who has been reading and my new reviewer. You guys make this a lot less scary than it is. So this chapter is going to be pretty short because I'm going to be writing two separate parts in both Bane and Talia's perspective during Talia's time away from the pit. Thanks again guys!
"Are you ready to begin?" Bane asked as he picked her up off the cot. Training 'his little princess' was much easier than he expected; actually Talia learned the techniques he taught her extremely fast. He taught her the very basics of defense and combat and she excelled. After they practiced combat, Bane would take her to mouth of the pit and make her climb the wall until her legs were sore. It made him very proud watching her rise, but it terrified him when he saw her climb back down. He almost wished she would keep climbing and escape during one of the practices. But that final leap. How could he expect her to make it when grown men could not?
As she jumped off of the chunk of concrete that protruded from the wall and landed safely in his arms, she looked up at the sky and said, "I've been practicing for so long, are we leaving soon? I want to see the trees and the mountains."
He wanted to cry, but he kept it in. "Very soon. You may have to leave before me though. Okay?"
"Why? You have to come with me."
"I might have to keep the men away from you so that you can climb. You have to promise me that you'll keep climbing if anything happens," he spoke seriously for the first time in so long and it frightened her. She would rather die than be without him, but he made her promise to him that she would keep going, and he once told her that promises were never allowed to be broken when made to people you loved.
After they were finished imagining the outside world again, Bane took Talia to the doctor's cell.
"She's going to escape soon and I need you to get her in the best health possible," Bane demanded.
"You expect the child to make the jump, when so ma-"
"She'll make the jump," Bane bellowed.
The doctor sighed and agreed to check Talia. He advised Bane to have her eat as much food as possible before her escape and with that they went back to their cell and the rest of the day was routine.
The next morning was especially quiet as they went for their practice. None of the men yelled anything to her, made her offers, or even spoke. They only stared. As Bane and Talia finished practice and began walking back to their cell hand in hand, they heard several cell doors bust open and an overwhelming wave of screams and laughter.
"Go!" Bane yelled. Talia ran to the wall and began climbing as Bane was fighting off the other men. He managed to push them off for a second and lift Talia up onto the chunk of concrete, but then the swarm of men began pulling him down. Talia looked back at Bane as they pulled off his scarf. "Goodbye," was all he said before he disappeared under the arms and feet of the men.
Talia was so afraid that she wanted to stay on that upper piece of concrete before the leap, but she had promised him she would make it. So she did. Her heart nearly burst out of her chest as her feet left the floor and she was in mid-air for what seemed like an eternity, but then she felt her palms touch the concrete and pressed her fingers down as tightly as she could. The men stopped and watched in awe as they saw a child do what they had failed to do. The last thing Bane saw before he went unconscious was Talia rising from the pit.